Bank vault install

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Very interesting job, 60,000 lbs plus of stainless steel, concrete and unknown and undisclosed reinforcement in between, 10 foot x 10 foot and 8 feet tall.Last edited by jnl; 01-17-2015 at 09:06 AM.
Reply:That's awesome!!
Reply:That should work for my gun safe. .No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Reply:Looks like a pretty serious vault. It does make me wonder though, how much is redundant? I mean in all my years I have yet to hear of a team of criminals attack a vault with sledge hammers and cutting torches and all that stuff you see in the movies.12v battery, jumper cables, and a 6013.I only have a facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/VPT/244788508917829
Reply:Originally Posted by VPTLooks like a pretty serious vault. It does make me wonder though, how much is redundant? I mean in all my years I have yet to hear of a team of criminals attack a vault with sledge hammers and cutting torches and all that stuff you see in the movies.
Reply:Originally Posted by Rock knockerIt does happenhttp://community.seattletimes.nwsour...4&slug=2764715
Reply:I don't know, and can't find anything on google
Reply:Originally Posted by VPTLooks like a pretty serious vault. It does make me wonder though, how much is redundant? I mean in all my years I have yet to hear of a team of criminals attack a vault with sledge hammers and cutting torches and all that stuff you see in the movies.
Reply:Originally Posted by Rock knockerIt does happenhttp://community.seattletimes.nwsour...4&slug=2764715
Reply:Originally Posted by DSWThat should work for my gun safe.
Reply:OxyLance for de-install.... Attached Images"Discovery is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought" - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Reply:Originally Posted by denrepThere was another job in progress that woulda been a grand slam if one of the "workman" hadn't stepped out into the night for a cigarette break - dressed only in his underwear. I guess a passing motorist called in to gripe.
Reply:Originally Posted by rock knockerwhere was that?
Reply:Originally Posted by ManoKaiOxyLance for de-install....
Reply:Originally Posted by #1SomeGuyThat's because it's a fairly effective deterrent. If they did build vaults smaller/less secure then the frequency with which people would attempt to break into them would be increased.
Reply:in my neck of the woods vault installation/repair is usually nice,clean work with great hours and goes to the politically connected. could be why i never saw any.i.u.o.e. # 15queens, ny and sunny fla
Reply:Aww, that's a piggy bank! The original Diebold plant in Canton, Ohio has a train track running through it that used to ship the real stuff in the 20s and 30s!
Reply:yea, they need to make them strong, so the robbers don't blow them open.      It makes me think of the North Hollywood Bank Robbery in the 90s.    Two guys who already did some banks, and killed, fired over a thousand rounds at police and news helicopter.    They were in heavy body armor w/ full auto Norinco AKs and drum mags.    After making them open the vault, one of them tried to shoot open a safe.   He didn't get it open, but he ruined some of the money inside.    The cops pee shooters werent cutting it, so they literally went to a gun store, and got real rifles, and returned to the shootout.     The shootout took 44 minutes, so the movie was named 44 minutes.    I remeber when it happened.    That incident was a tuning point ofwhen cops getting bigger artillery, and look at them now, it wont be long before they get full auto
Reply:Originally Posted by 123weld look at them now, it wont be long before they get full auto
Reply:heres video of it
Reply:There was a famous robbery in France where the thieves got in the vault through a tunnel and then welded the vault from the inside so no one could get in. It's a quite interesting read. The guy they suspected as the ring leader went to court and jumped out a window and escaped.
Reply:Originally Posted by jnlive never tried the lancing, would be nice to try, especially for taking pins out of buckets, its on my wish list to own one of these some day.
Reply:Weld the vault door shut from the inside, now thats a good trick!12v battery, jumper cables, and a 6013.I only have a facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/VPT/244788508917829
Reply:the payoff of that one in France was definately in, being it was the judges window that he jumped out of.    Theres a whole book on that one from the 70s.    You can have all the vaults you want, but a couple bad apples in the bunch can overide that.      I think its an inside job more often than we think whether its petty or big theft..   Just a couple weeks ago in our local community, bank employees were wheeling a cart w/ a large amount of money behind the counter.   Just at that moment, 3 individuals entered in masks, no guns, w/o saying a word, jumped the counter, and kindly wheeled the cart to there waitng vehicle, all in one minute.    I mean what do you expect, they hire tellers at 10 or 15 dollars an hour w/ tattoos, who live w/ there boyfriend in an apartment.
Reply:Originally Posted by HT2-4956jnl,I've taken a few heavy seized pins out using the Arcair Slice Torch.   Basically you pierce thru and take some of the center of the pin out and then let it cool off completely and what's left will drive out easily.   Here's a video I found of it being done.They put one of those in the toll plaza at the bridge here locally,   HUGE Monolith pour of a 20' square slab 6' thick with and INSANE amount of rebar in it.  with a little 4" rat slab ramp leading up to it,  well they assembled the vault outside the building and i will let you guess what happened when they tried to wheel it up the little rat slab of a ramp on machinery skates.Vantage 500's LN-25's, VI-400's, cobramatics, Miller migs, synch 350 LX, Powcon inverters, XMT's, 250 Ton Acurrpress 12' brake, 1/4" 10' Atlantic shear,Koikie plasma table W/ esab plasmas. marvel & hyd-mech saws, pirrana & metal muncher punches.
Reply:Originally Posted by HT2-4956jnl,I've taken a few heavy seized pins out using the Arcair Slice Torch.   Basically you pierce thru and take some of the center of the pin out and then let it cool off completely and what's left will drive out easily.   Here's a video I found of it being done.
Reply:Didn't watch the video, but I've used the Slice Torch on steel, cinderblock, and concrete.  If there is ANY other way to take something apart, I'll choose the other way first.  I still carry scars from that "tool."There's supposedly a 12V ignition system you can use for it (at least there was at the time I used it), but we lit ours with an oxy-acetylene torch.  If that tells you anything about how nasty the Slice is.