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Skybird · 07-09-20, 03:15 PM

A wife makes you vulnerable to blackmailing. You should get rid of her. Also rewards you a second gun for you remaining free hand.

Serious, over here the bigger threata is not being assaulted while being at home, but burglars breaking into yioru home while you are away.

Have a safe myself, plus an ultra-tough frontdoor, RC class 4+, and magnetic key cylinder thatr for practcially everybody is impossible to mechanically pick.

Two years ago I locked myself out, and learned the hard way that I had - unintnetionally - chosen the wrong safety option for the key cylinder when ordering the door, I thought I had the lock version that allows you to open the door wioth a reserve key from one side while the key still is plugged in on the other side. Well, bad surprise, the key stuck inside, and the reserve I had hidden in a place and used from the outside did not turn... While i had a good opening service (who was absolutely competent and who also wrote a more than fair bill considering the epic work they had to do), the poor guy and his assistant nevertheless needed 2 and a half hours to open the door (by destroying the cylinder with a drilling machine after having peeled of the armoured shield). Using the full collection of tools. The man, a bear of a man who looked like a football player, at 10 p.m. finally sat on the stairs, exhausted, looked at the finally open door through which the light from my flat flooded out, looked up to me with a somewhat empty face and said "Now that was a lesson. I will never forget it."

I sometimes meet the man on the streets, his shop is very close by. I always greet friendly. He never greets back.

To me it was a lesson as well, I paid 220 Euros for working time and service and then a provisional lock, and then had to order a new mechanism from Austria (which the Austrian door producer imports from a company here in my hometown, ironically, but this local company does not sell directly to private customers, and the mechanism also matches Austrian size norms). Costed me another 1100 Euros. Plus over 200 for another key cylinder, and another 250 for a new armour shield. Lesson learned. Thoroughly...

Moral of the story: the Austrians know how to build solid doors. Seen that way, the whole adventure was costly, but a proof of success...

07-09-20, 03:15 PM	#3
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,735 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	A wife makes you vulnerable to blackmailing. You should get rid of her. Also rewards you a second gun for you remaining free hand. Serious, over here the bigger threata is not being assaulted while being at home, but burglars breaking into yioru home while you are away. Have a safe myself, plus an ultra-tough frontdoor, RC class 4+, and magnetic key cylinder thatr for practcially everybody is impossible to mechanically pick. Two years ago I locked myself out, and learned the hard way that I had - unintnetionally - chosen the wrong safety option for the key cylinder when ordering the door, I thought I had the lock version that allows you to open the door wioth a reserve key from one side while the key still is plugged in on the other side. Well, bad surprise, the key stuck inside, and the reserve I had hidden in a place and used from the outside did not turn... While i had a good opening service (who was absolutely competent and who also wrote a more than fair bill considering the epic work they had to do), the poor guy and his assistant nevertheless needed 2 and a half hours to open the door (by destroying the cylinder with a drilling machine after having peeled of the armoured shield). Using the full collection of tools. The man, a bear of a man who looked like a football player, at 10 p.m. finally sat on the stairs, exhausted, looked at the finally open door through which the light from my flat flooded out, looked up to me with a somewhat empty face and said "Now that was a lesson. I will never forget it." I sometimes meet the man on the streets, his shop is very close by. I always greet friendly. He never greets back. To me it was a lesson as well, I paid 220 Euros for working time and service and then a provisional lock, and then had to order a new mechanism from Austria (which the Austrian door producer imports from a company here in my hometown, ironically, but this local company does not sell directly to private customers, and the mechanism also matches Austrian size norms). Costed me another 1100 Euros. Plus over 200 for another key cylinder, and another 250 for a new armour shield. Lesson learned. Thoroughly... Moral of the story: the Austrians know how to build solid doors. Seen that way, the whole adventure was costly, but a proof of success... __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 07-09-20 at 03:30 PM.