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    just remember @gundoc had a whole safe ripped out with a hiab or such years ago. This is the case of that they very likely knew him and his trade and what he dealt and worked with.
    did everything right but unlike some of us, hard to hide what he might have had in his possession.
    If you are reading this mate, did they ever get anyone for this?

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    Quote Originally Posted by csmiffy View Post
    just remember @gundoc had a whole safe ripped out with a hiab or such years ago. This is the case of that they very likely knew him and his trade and what he dealt and worked with.
    did everything right but unlike some of us, hard to hide what he might have had in his possession.
    If you are reading this mate, did they ever get anyone for this?
    They cut all the security bars out of the front of my shop (professional job) and got away with a custom built (just finished that day) .358 Norma Magnum built on a P14 with a NZ walnut stock and an octagonal barrel with an integral full length rib, A custom walnut stocked FN FAL that was engraved and a high polish blue, a .22 Hornet built on a small Martini, and a couple .22's (destroying the steel rack in the process). They also got about 12 guns from the workshop rack that were being worked on, all with parts missing (on my bench) and inoperable. They never got into my strongroom which had over 100 handguns and restricted weapons in it. The alarm company had a patrol there within 4 minutes of the alarm going off but no one was there. Insurance was piss all use and the deal cost me just over 20 Grand. The FAL was recovered by me about 5 years later from a chopper operator on the West Coast who had been given it in exchange for a hunting trip. No one was ever caught and frankly, I don't think the Police looked very hard. The lesson to me was to put future steel security bars behind the glass so the alarm goes off as soon as the glass breaks. They never opened the door but just smashed all the glass out in the aluminium frame. The Police reckoned there were 4-6 people involved. I would love that custom .358 to turn up as the customer would be a very happy man. I put a lot of hours into it and was very pleased with the result.
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    I like the post but really only because of the 358. The rest is just awful
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    Quote Originally Posted by scotty View Post
    the mesh is 1/2 inch squares..... so alot of smashing required to make a hole big enuff for some fat burgling bastard

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    I predict that eventually the police will decree that we must have a steel safe to store firearms in.
    So whilst a strong room is a cool idea, you are gonna need a safe too

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    Quote Originally Posted by gundoc View Post
    They cut all the security bars out of the front of my shop (professional job) and got away with a custom built (just finished that day) .358 Norma Magnum built on a P14 with a NZ walnut stock and an octagonal barrel with an integral full length rib, A custom walnut stocked FN FAL that was engraved and a high polish blue, a .22 Hornet built on a small Martini, and a couple .22's (destroying the steel rack in the process). They also got about 12 guns from the workshop rack that were being worked on, all with parts missing (on my bench) and inoperable. They never got into my strongroom which had over 100 handguns and restricted weapons in it. The alarm company had a patrol there within 4 minutes of the alarm going off but no one was there. Insurance was piss all use and the deal cost me just over 20 Grand. The FAL was recovered by me about 5 years later from a chopper operator on the West Coast who had been given it in exchange for a hunting trip. No one was ever caught and frankly, I don't think the Police looked very hard. The lesson to me was to put future steel security bars behind the glass so the alarm goes off as soon as the glass breaks. They never opened the door but just smashed all the glass out in the aluminium frame. The Police reckoned there were 4-6 people involved. I would love that custom .358 to turn up as the customer would be a very happy man. I put a lot of hours into it and was very pleased with the result.
    Aaargh!!!
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    I've seen it done with heavy ply over steel reinforcing mesh up against the wall, the whole lot screwed in with bugles/purlin screws at 200 spacing

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    I predict that eventually the police will decree that we must have a steel safe to store firearms in.
    So whilst a strong room is a cool idea, eventually you are gonna need a safe too

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    Quote Originally Posted by 308 View Post
    I've seen it done with heavy ply over steel reinforcing mesh up against the wall, the whole lot screwed in with bugles/purlin screws at 200 spacing
    Gun nails are the way to go, bugles or other screws are not only expensive, but will give your drill or impact driver a real hard work out with that number of fixings.
    Use enough gun

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    Quote Originally Posted by 40mm View Post
    Gun nails are the way to go, bugles or other screws are not only expensive, but will give your drill or impact driver a real hard work out with that number of fixings.
    Just get a Dewalt (Milwaukee/Makita etc but fuck Ryobi)
    then burr the heads out so they can't be undone
    and don't pay Bunnings prices for tekscrews/bugles - trade places do them much cheaper

    Gun nails are cheaper but do you want a strong room or not?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 308 View Post
    Just get a Dewalt (Milwaukee/Makita etc but fuck Ryobi)
    then burr the heads out so they can't be undone
    and don't pay Bunnings prices for tekscrews/bugles - trade places do them much cheaper

    Gun nails are cheaper but do you want a strong room or not?
    I hear you, screws are for sure much harder to pull out.
    But with the amount of nails per sheet, it would be a very determined thief with a LOT of time on his hands to get the wall apart.
    Even galv nails or ring shank if you really need to make it harder.
    Use enough gun

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    If you drive gun nails at an angle to the faces of the sheets then the force required to pull them apart again is similar to screwed construction (unless you remove most of the nails. I use a hell of a lot of bugle screws (I buy 100x14's by 10's of thousand for fencing) the and I wouldn't bother using them to set the panels for a strong room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cordite View Post
    Aaargh!!!
    @gundoc although your incident was probably a professional/organised job it's amazing how well bars deter opportunists. I lived next to a dairy in Rotorua and it had the window smashed out about once a year until they put bars inside window. After that it never happened again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gundoc View Post
    18mm MDF is bloody tough! Don't forget to line the ceiling as well. The lining needs to be screwed to the frame otherwise it can just be kicked free. The outward opening door is good but it needs two deadlocks about 400mm from the top and bottom. A 1.6mm steel sheet on the outside of the door, folded and screwed onto the edges is also preferable. I have built a couple of them over the years.
    I did one in our last place. I used two layers of MDF and got nasty......The first layer was screwed to the studs AND dwangs, and the secod layer was glued on over those scres and bolted through with coach bolts and I put a pin in each of the bolts after the nut so it would spin before undoing if they got the coach head to move....It looked like the coach screws held it on but they were simply there to frustrate anyone who bothered to undo them. I then mounted heaps of shelves to the outside of them to further frustrate anyone trying to access via the wall. Then the door was located between two steel 100x50 studs and opened inwards so if they tried to kick it in the locks would have to pass through the door as the Jam / frame would not give.

    ..I also put 15mm holes in the studs and threaded 12mm reinforcing bar through them. The bars would spin if someone tried to saw through the wall. Parallel to that were the power cables fr the 3 pin sockets (fans and tools etc inside the room) and lights. These were "protected by the steel rio bars so they would not get cut, but if said crim accidentally cut one while trying to break in, it would have been unfortunate.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mauser308 View Post
    And gib/paint over the top of all the ply etc on the walls, cursory glance and it just looks like another internal wall...
    Yep, any obviously armoured door is like a candle to a burglarmoth.
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