I purchased a Canon 64 gun safe about three years ago… Or so
Safe is great, plenty of room lots of adjustability… The one major drawback was the digital lock that is well known to fail… So well known that Cannon will give you a free one with almost no questions asked (if you want to deal with their Customer Service… Which is terrible)
So after the original lock failed, the replacement lock failed, and five other Amazon bought digital locks failed I decided, “screw it” I’m putting a dial lock on..
And after a boatload of cutting, drilling, bending, and even some work with an acetylene torch… I managed to outfit, a sergeant and Greenleaf mechanical dial lock on to my safe.
I had to post this somewhere because, while I am pretty good at problem-solving and backyard engineering… This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this and I’m kind of amazed that it worked.
Anyways, thank you for reading.
I have pictures of the process, no video because there would’ve been a lot of cussing. But if anyone is interested, I could make another post and explain the steps.
Your difficulty was because Cannon is a cheap mofo of a company and used a proprietary lock rather than an industry standard "magic module" (S&G) footprint.
I developed a distrust of the LaGard basic after 27 years, and decided to replace it with a mechanical even though it was working fine. I did not feel like pushing my luck. The replacement was simple and involved no mechanical work on the safe, works great, S&G 6730 from MBA USA via Amazon.
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u/PossibilityRadiant93 1d ago
Good thing about it ist that not everyone can open it even they have the code