gun safe

[Dink]

The only fire protection is a 1/2 inch sheet of sheetrock. They can be opened with basic hand tools. The safe lock itself is the worst part of it. They use the cheapest lock they can, and I get the calls everyyear. Some poor fella just spent weekend after weekend getting his foodplots/blinds ready and he cant get his safe open to go hunt........spend the extra money for a better safe. Also.......but the biggest one you can afford. Trust me once you get one, you'll find all kinds of stuff you want to put in it. One more thing. the fire rating on a gun safe(1 hour at 1800deg) and burglar/fire safe(1 hour at 1200deg) is different. If you plan on putting important paperwork and or cash in it, you'll need a seperate fire box to put them in, then put that in the gun safe, other wise your papers will char.........any other questions you can PM me........and yes, this is what I do for a living...Tim......

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Dink

The only fire protection is a 1/2 inch sheet of sheetrock. They can be opened with basic hand tools. The safe lock itself is the worst part of it. They use the cheapest lock they can, and I get the calls everyyear. Some poor fella just spent weekend after weekend getting his foodplots/blinds ready and he cant get his safe open to go hunt........spend the extra money for a better safe. Also.......but the biggest one you can afford. Trust me once you get one, you'll find all kinds of stuff you want to put in it. One more thing. the fire rating on a gun safe(1 hour at 1800deg) and burglar/fire safe(1 hour at 1200deg) is different. If you plan on putting important paperwork and or cash in it, you'll need a seperate fire box to put them in, then put that in the gun safe, other wise your papers will char.........any other questions you can PM me........and yes, this is what I do for a living...Tim......

HUMMMMMMMMMMMMM????

Tim.....if I remember my basic fire training chemistry........

To get a flame temperature of 1800 F you would need some kind of special burner and gas to get up anywhere near 1800 deg F. I am not sure if a normal propane gas cooker flame would get up that hot. A propane burner flame [nice and blue] may get up to 1200 deg F.

A normal "Wood" house fire flame [mostly a yellow flame] would be about 750 deg F measured at the tip of the flame.

Tim.....have you actually seen what the contents of a safe [yours vs the cheep ones] look like after a fire? What did any "paper" look like inside the safe?