… Looking at this table and camera setup I talked with Paul Crouwel, the
safe technician I came with. The original idea was to do this little
test under the flag of Toool. Paul would say something about the safes
and the way they were constructed and I would talk about the quality
of the locks. But this camera setup, and the content of the safe
(monopoly money and a pearl necklaces) proved the TV makers still
wanted to shoot the test as if it was a real time burglary. This was
reason enough to let Paul Crouwel do the test on his own. A real pity,
I would have loved to pick these locks and say something about them…
The results of the test can be seen today for those of you who can
receive Dutch television (NL 1 18:55). Besides testing the safes on
being burglary proof they were also tested to see how well they could
handle being dropped from great heights as well being set on fire.
(unfortunately not at the same time, that would have been real
spectacular television 😉
And for the record: Paul Crouwel normally never ever ever opens this
kind of low quality safes. He is a real specialist that mainly focuses
on high security safes. And he is one of the few people I know that on
a regular basis opens bank and post office safes. He invests a lot of
time and money in keeping up to date with safe technology and even
tries to open these high security safes without damaging them. For
this he uses a method known as ‘manipulation’, that was also covered
during the Sneek lectures. For this he constantly purchases the best
of the best materials and spends hours a day practising with it.
The latest tool in his toolbox is a manipulation aid from the UK.
Special hardware and software that will help determine what numbers
are in a safe combination, and what wheel you are working on. I shot
some video when the tool was demonstrated in Sneek (Video 17 Mb WMV).
To come back to the test: I can’t wait to see what they made of it.
Paul Crouwel will be live in the studio tonight and comment on the
test results. Needless to say I will make the video available asap on this site…
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