Thread: Securing an E-cat safe...

...I answered my own question, and went and bought a long 10mm drill bit to go through the joist...
Just need to organise my steel plate on Tuesday, and done!

A little trick I picked up is a wire coathanger cut on an angle so its sharp will drill through carpet without causing it to tear up the carpet and leaves an invisible hole. I often do it then leave the wire in the hole so its easy to find my bearings underneath the house and to make sure you drill up into the right wall.

I put a long alloy dowel into the hole and asked the kids to wiggle it until i found it!
My young one came under the house with me and we both got covered in cobwebs

Ok, i got a reply from the AO...
"The arms act only refers to a 6mm plate, each security inspection is judged on its own merits at the time of inspection. a 6mm plate only applies where there is no floor joist to bolt the safe to."

Even though one bolt passes through a joist, i am going to put in the 6mm steel plate just so my bases are covered.

see , and I was told that a plate must be used , no ifs buts or maybes .....always good to talk to an AO , ... but cant hurt to be as safe as you can with the security of restricted weapons ..... I would be pissed if I came home to a missing safe

New 6mm steel plate to be fitted under the house.

Nice work gruntzer.

Thanks all...
Now bolted under the house.
It was a bit of a mission crawling around and then trying to lift a 15kg plate with one hand whilst putting on a nut with the other... good thing the kids could not here what I was saying while waiting to help tighten the bolts above...

Bolts were secured with double nuts, which were centre punched to help lock them, and threads burred to prevent undoing... hope its ok.

Finally can send in my E-cat paper work so the interview can be at the same time as the safe inspection...


also done a nice summary for the AO of how its attached...

good job , buddy , some will say , " no need to do all that !! grumble mumble mumble grumble ... effing cops ... bastards ... mumble ... in my day ...." etc etc ..... but I think you have clearly shown you have adheared to the rules , and have done all you need to do to be signed off in aheartbeat .
cheers

Very thorough. No ones getting that Vepr without explosives!

Don't mean to be rude, but am I looking at your nuts grunzter?

I thought they were meant to be in the cabinet...

haha... Tom, its a Valmet Hunter by Sako...

at Ricochet,
Yeh, but I thought this was ok, if they were locked in place... I may grab two new bolts and change them over if requested...(just my luck the nuts are well locked, and I will need to grind them off...)
just did not want all the sharp edges and protrusions inside the safe..

Yeah, I thought that'd be the reason, I wouldn't want them sticking up into my safe either. Would the inspector even go under your house?

I just got my A cat licence & the safe inspection was p much the inspector having a glance at my setup & me running through what I'd done. Although if your inspector was the super serious type it'd be a shame if that little detail failed you.

Top effort all round though bro, great to see!

Nice job gruntzer. Yes, the nuts are meant to be inside the cabinet. The vetting officer may demand that you reverse your nuts.

If a concrete floor has under-floor heating how would the cabinet be attached to the floor without possibly seriously damaging the heating elements?