About modern safes. Classification, models, firms, prices, useful information.
For storage of jewelry, money, secret documents, people from time immemorial arranged in their homes all sortsmates. Among the largest sets mounted in the furniture or the wall of lockers and caskets with code locks, with or without alarms. However, in terms of reliability and convenience, all these devices are not compared with the miracle of the new equipment and intelligence, modern safes.
A bit of history
The ancestors of modern safes - diverse strains and chests, pride items and symbols of wealth of their owners. Initially, these simple items were wooden, hinge, and later, alloy-metal, with puzzles constipation. Gradually, the strains lost their decorations and turned into what we call the safes. These are extremely functional containers designed to preserve various types of values from the abduction or fire. However, some manufacturers and today decorate safes with curls or patterns that should give the mysterious box "Classic View". There are also models saved by velvet, expensive wood species, made in the original modern design. In general, the choice is quite wide. However, what kind of safe is needed to you- decide for yourself.| Nature of values | Safety type | Approximate price, $ |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Fire resistant | 250-4000 |
| Magnetic Media Information | Fire resistant, specially intended for storing magnetic media | 600-4000 |
| Money, jewelry, securities | Resistant to hacking | 1500-10000. |
| Money, values, documents (hurry) | Fire-resistant or built into the wall | 120-500 |
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Safes can be embedded and portable, vary by the degree of secrecy used by materials, designs, sizes, mass and design. Some of them are intended for storing documents or jewels, others - for works of art, third for weapons and ammunition. Suffice it to say that products from two dozen producers are presented on the market, and the number of models is calculated by hundreds.
With all the variety of models, among the manufacturers, it is customary to share safes into two main groups: fire-resistant and stable hacking (differently broken-resistant). Fire resistant safes are practically unable to resist hacking. They can easily break through the crowbar or another heavy item, and sometimes to board a regular screwdriver. But this does not mean that such safes are worse than hazardous, they are simply intended to protect their contents completely from the other. On the contrary, the burglar-resistant model will not save your property from the long exposure to high temperatures. Combining fire and burglar resistance is not easy task. Therefore, safes protecting both of these evils are much more expensive than models that protect from one of the risks.
Interestingly, the leaders in terms of sales in the Russian market are fire-resistant safes, although hacks in our country happen much more often than fires. There is no explanation for this fact. Possible causes can be called the illiteracy of buyers, a much lower price of fire-resistant safes, their extremely wide distribution in the market and the unscrupulousness of sellers who do not prevent the buyer about the low stability of the model to hack.
What is fire resistance
In Russia, the qualitative characteristics of the safes are determined on the basis of the recently adopted standard - GOST R50862-96 "Safes and vandinations of values. Requirements and methods for testing resistance to hacking and fire resistance." According to foreign statistics, in 9 cases out of 10 documents are destroyed as a result of fires.Fire resistance value is defined as the time through which the contents of the safe is determined by the content of the safe. This time is in minutes point to the designation of the fire resistance class. There is no single international indicator of this magnitude. More often use three standards: American, Japanese and pan-European. But they only coincide on the merits of the test process: primary heating of the safe (order1000c); drop from a height on a platform site; repeated heating (up to 800c); The heat blow (the safe is heated in the furnace, after which they are cooled by water).Test results for different standards may vary. Here is just one example. Tested on Japanese Standard JISS1037 AIKO safes have a 2C certificate. It is during this time the temperature inside the safe reaches 170c. Tests of the same safe for the Swedish National National Standard NTFIRE017 showed 90 minutes of fire resistance. Russian GOST R 50862-96 According to this indicator, the toughest: conducted in VNIIPO tests stained the fire resistance equal to 60min. During this time, the temperature inside the safe reached 130s, and the product was assigned a class of fire resistance 60b.
Flame rival
So what is a fire-resistant safe? Specialists call it a "fire-resistant drawer." Safes of this group are made of lightweight materials. Each wall consists of two layers of a steel sheet with a thickness of 1-1.5mm, between which a layer of foam concrete is located. This material has a low thermal conductivity, it is it that protects the contents of the safe from the fire. Often, vermiculite granules are added to the foam concrete (mica). They contain a large percentage of water in the associated form. At high temperature, water is released and bores the material, creating additional pores in it and even reducing thermal conductivity. Fire resistance safe increases. But foam concrete is not particularly durable, so such a safe is weakly protected from hacking.
Some misconceptions and their refutation
- Burglar-resistant class5 safe for $ 300-500 is the same as the new six hundred "Mercedes" at the price of Zaporozhets.
- Serial Safety Deposit Boxed of Fiction Pressure "Pressure". Serial production of broken-resistant safes ends at class 5 level. All that is higher is made to order.
- Buying fire-resistant safe, look carefully on the label. If the inscriptions are performed by hieroglyphs, boldly divide the specified fire resistance to N2. If there is no original sticker at all or on a safe of not Russian production, it contains only Russian text, it is better to buy another safe.
The order of prices for "fire-resistant drawers" - from $ 150do $ 800. The cost depends on the class of fire resistance of the model and useful internal volume. A very appropriate supplement in some fire-resistant safes is built-in steel box, lockable on an additional castle. These boxes have the thickness of the walls of 6mm, the door is 9 mm and have quite a decent burglary.
Here is just a brief list of firms supplying fire-resistant safes: Sunsafes, Safeguard, Diplomat, Topaz (South Korea); Fire KingInc., HOVARD MILLER, VIRCO MFGCORP. (USA); AIKO (Japan, Taiwan); PRESIDENT (Thailand); Fichet (France); KASO (Finland), etc.
"For the home, for the family," there is enough safe with a lithuan storage amount of 20. Frequency the price of the work is not: 1 l. The useful amount of fire-resistant safe costs about $ 5. But this is provided that the volume of more than 400l; If less is more expensive.
Magnetic information carriers should be stored in fire-resistant safes, especially for this purpose. There are practically no demand for the demand for such products. Avteda is known that the recovery of 1MB of lost information cost an average of $ 2000. Accident of the Safety Department of this category will give AIKO DS-SS model. External dimensions - approximately 374843cm, volume 7l, weight 60kg. The box is locked on the code and key lock. The price is about $ 272.
Safe locks as they are
Reliable safe without a high-class castle is no longer reliable safe. After all, no wonder the phrase "Safety Castle" is well known worldwide. But there are many locks, and more than different. Forward the approximation can be divided into key and code.
In the best models of both domestic and foreign safes, castles of two firms are mainly used: German Mauer and American SargentGreenLeaf. For more than 100 years, these firms produce safes and have an excellent reputation.
Choosing a safe, pay attention to the key. It must be furor (actually safe), not English or cruciform. The requirements for the execution of the key must be in charge of the highest: no burrs and concerts are allowed, because the micron accuracy of manufacturing the key is warranty from its fake. The safe of the safe is only two keys: one is at the owner, and the other must be reliably hidden.
Mauer locks are open as oil, with a slight click, the entire key turnover is required.
SargentGreenLeaF code mechanical locks by accuracy can be compared with the chronometer. The code combination consists of three two-digit numbers and corresponds to a level of secrecy of one million possible combinations.
But this is the highest category, and you can find a wide variety of locks. The key lock is the most easy to use, although a fixed mechanical code may be cheaper. However, it has a very significant disadvantage: if the code has become known to an outsider, the castle will have to be changed entirely (whether it is easier to replace the entire safe). Mechanical combination lock with a replaced code is deprived of this shortage, but more expensive.
Increasingly, safes are supplied with electronic locks. They are quite expensive, there are no shortcomings of mechanical code locks, but the batteries sometimes sit in them, and the keyboard replacement in case of damage will be very expensive. Advantages are free code change, protection against combination selection, in expensive models - opening delay, the ability to connect alarm or to the security console, hierarchical codes, etc.
But it is still not all. There are options for locks with magnetic keys, as well as with code contactless contact keys running in infrared, ultrasound or radio bands, and many other wonderful solutions.
However, it is worth noting that the owners of safes are not too dirty on the novelty, for the most part, the combination of the Suwald Safety Castle with the mechanical code remains correct.
Are there any reception against scrap?
Burglar-resistant safes are designed as follows from their name, to protect against opening using an application of force or by any tools. In principle, so that you do not seduce, you can open any safe, it is just a matter of time. But it is his hackers usually a little. If the room is under the protection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then police officers must arrive, according to standards, after 5-10 minutes. If there is no alarm at all or it was possible to disable it, then the hackers can be at the disposal a few hours before your appearance.Experience shows that most often in the fight against safes are amused by amateurs. Well, if the Professional "Messenger" came out, "a cook" (NATO usually occurs on request), the chances of maintaining the contents of the safe in immunity as close as possible to zero. Kschasty, among the hackers of professionals little. Moreover, they are mainly concentrated in certification centers, where experienced samples are hacked with pleasure and knowledge, determining their resistance. Another field of activity of such specialists is the autopsy of safes whose owners have lost their keys, forgotten the code or which just jammed.
In the production of burglar-resistant safes, in contrast to fire resistant, use durable materials. They have high thermal conductivity, and therefore are not able to protect the contents of the drawer from high temperatures for a long time. But under the "long" usually understand half an hour, and this, you see, too, a lot, if a local fire takes place.
Each wall of a burglar-resistant safe consists of two sheets of steel with internal filling. Summer cheap filling models use sand, but usually this reinforced concrete. And higher, the class of burglar resistance of the safe, the more difficult the structure of the reinforcement and the stronger concrete.
The thickness of the steel sheets used is fluctuated, as a rule, from 3 to 6, rarely up to 10 mm. The increase in the thickness of the walls of the safe, of course, has a positive effect on its strength, but you can not forget about the quality of the steel used. Western manufacturers in the manufacture of safes are mainly used by sheets have become thick no more than 3mm, and domestic - 6mm.
Burglar-resistant models are not lungs: the average cabinet safe will weigh 150-250kg, and a large cash register class 5 is no less than a ton. Plus, most burglar models are securely attached to the floor or wall to prevent the safe.
Some models of fire-resistant safes
| Manufacturer | Model | Dimensions (height, width, depth), mm | Mass, kg. | Volume, L. | Approximate price, $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DERAAT. | RoyalR15 | 520422558. | 70. | 32. | 94. |
| Diplomat. | Diplomatf119. | 360422412422363. | 37. | nineteen | 136. |
| Safeltd. | DiplomatSD300 | 1680422765422645. | 490. | 380. | 1385. |
| Fichet. | Celsia200. | 903422752422606. | 270. | 186. | 2875. |
| Kelvia100. | 990422834422807. | 440. | 117. | 4400. | |
| FirekingInc. | F2 1822. | 705422452422562. | 75. | 86. | 300. |
| F4 38C4. | 1448422952422562. | 254. | 352. | 2660. | |
| Kaso. | E1230 * | 1100422686422628. | 390. | 160. | 2840. |
| RTK-110 * | 650422636422532. | 169. | 89. | 13100. | |
| Aiko. | ES10 | 364422416422389. | 42. | 15.7 | 158. |
| 2D201 | 12704221042422687. | 400. | 410. | 2158. |
* - Fire-burglar-resistant models
The reliability of the safe mechanics can be assessed by the quality of its locking. Rearned position The door is fixed with steel beglings, which are rod (diameter 2-4cm) or disk (1-2 cm thickness). Rigels are advanced in three directions, up, down and to the side opposite to the loops, and the door is fixed with a stationary non-fitting rigle. The loops may have an open and closed execution. It is important that the mechanic of the safe worked without the backlash, jams and rubbing, the handle turned easily, without effort, and the door opened smoothly and silently. The more accurate the fit of the mechanism elements, the more reliably the entire system.
The combination of fire resistance and burglary resistance, as mentioned above, leads to a significant increase in the cost of the safe. Inesl products with class1 burglar resistance and fire resistance in 60 minutes on sale are still found, then the combination of class3 of burglar resistance and 120 minutes of fire resistance is already very expensive exotic, similar safes are made only to order.
Compliance of the stability classes of safes for hacking for different standards (SKB Committee, Netherlands)
| GOST R 50862-96 | Euro Cen 1143 (European Union) | VDMA24992 (Germany) | APSAIRD (Switzerland) | U.L. (USA) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class | Number of units hackingResistance ru (*) | ||||
| A. | |||||
| 00. | |||||
| B. | A2PCLASSE0. | ||||
| 30/30 | 0 | ||||
| one | 30/50 | I. | C1F. | A2PCLASSE1 | TL-15. |
| A2PCLASSE2. | TL-15/6 | ||||
| TL-30. | |||||
| 2. | 50/80 | II. | C2F. | A2PCLASSE3. | |
| 3. | 80/120 | III | D10 | TL-30/60 | |
| TRTL-15. | |||||
| A2PCLASSE4. | |||||
| four | 120/180 | IV | D20 | TRTL-15/6 | |
| A2PCLASSE5. | |||||
| five | 180/270 | V. | |||
| A2PCLASSE6. | TRTL-30/6 | ||||
| 6. | 270/400 | VI | E10. | TRTL-60/6 | |
| 7. | 400/600 | VII | TXTL-60. |
* - in the numerator partial access, in the denominator - full
Note. Consumer assessment of burglar resistance can be defined as follows: Classes 1-3 - satisfactory, 4-5 - well, above class7- Excellent.
In the Russian market, quite a lot of firms producing burglar safes are presented. Among them bordognas.p.a. (Italy), Deraat (Netherlands), S.M.P. Security (United Kingdom), Kaso (Finland), Safetronics (Slovakia), Fichet (France) and a number of others. The range of hack resistant safes of AIKO. They are produced in Germany, while fire-resistant safes of this company, alpony and in Taiwan.
From Article 22 of the Law "On Weapons"
"Civil and service weapons must be stored in conditions that ensure its safety, security of storage and excluding access to unauthorized persons."From domestic producers of hack resistant safes, we note the company "Ripost" (its products are equipped with Mauer castles (Germany) and Potent (Italy)), CJSC "CROSNA-SAYA" (Moscow), Novator Plant (Belgorod), St. Petersburg "DVK" and "VNV", Moscow "Olympus". Their products are tested for burglary in accordance with GOST R 50862-96. Domestic safes are several times cheaper imported.
What is resistance to hacking
Sustainability of the safe for hacking in accordance with GOST R 50862-96 is assessed by the results of certification tests. The greater the "inaccessibility" model, the higher its class. It is established depending on the number of conditional units of RU resistance, scored by safe when testing. It takes into account the time required for penetration into the safe, the effectiveness of the tool used for the operation and the difficulty of delivering it to the place of hacking. At the same time, preparation for hacking, the selection of the tool, the study of the characteristics of the model and the choice of the point of penetration on the case does not go to the account. Therefore, the time of opening some very solid safe may seem enough "unsolonable". For example, a class 2 safe opens in just 50 minutes. But it is in ideal conditions. Really, - when it is inconvenient to work, you need time for the preparatory operations, noise should be avoided, etc., it will be necessary to carry out the operation to dozens of times a longer period.It is curious that the effectiveness of tools in hacking is estimated by the following coefficients: manual-from 5 to7.5; electrical - 10; thermal-from 15 to 35. When testing, they seek partial or full access to the content of the safe. For the next case, it is necessary to do a hole sufficient to pass the template of a certain size, and in second-hand the door is at least 300 mm. Typically, the penetration site is chosen on the back or side walls as the weakest sequels. In many models, the doors have additional protective mechanisms. Among the latest plates against drilling or calene glass, closing the lock area and destroying when trying to drill or opening with a gas cutter (riglee) is blocked). The possibility of opening such a safe greatly decreases.
Safety deposit box of the required hacking class can be chosen, guided by one of the two principles. The first is based on formal requirements, such as the indication of the Central Bank, to apply cash safes in commercial banks not lower than class 5 (a substantive assessment system). Another way is to navigate the amount in which you assess your investments. So, when storing the amount up to $ 400,000, a safe class1 is sufficient, and to $ 60000-class 1-2.
For home storage of small values, you can advise embedded in the wall, preferably disguised, safes or caches, fire-resistant safes of small volumes. Such safes are inexpensive. But you need to remember that really serious values are not recommended in them. You can now meet the built-in safes of Fichet (France) safes, AIKO (Germany), bordognas.p.a. and Texnomax (Italy).
A separate problem is the storage of personal and hunting weapons. For this use special weapons and pistol safes. In the Russian market, they are represented by the products of AIKO and AR-FE (Germany), bordognas.p.a. (Italy), Deraat (Netherlands), Winchester Safes (USA). Buying such a safe, pay attention to the presence of separately localed separately in it. Interestingly, many weapons safes of domestic production are designed to store Kalashnikov machinery (ACM).
Now, in general, having acquainted with the peculiarities of modern safes, you can create creatively to their choice. Purchase safe is better at large sellers. Unic and the choice is much more, and they trade in the main quality products that have passed the necessary tests and having the necessary certificates.
Some models of burglar-resistant, embedded and furniture safes
| Manufacturer | Model | Dimensions (height, width, depth), mm | Mass, kg. | Volume, L. | Approximate price, $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bordognas.p.a. | AKRA A45 / C | 450422500422420. | 115. | 49. | 1110. |
| AKRA A81 / E | 810422500422420. | 163. | 97. | 1410. | |
| Diplomatsafeltd. | BF070. | 695422500422500. | 134. | 41,1 | 632. |
| Fichet. | Carena1120. | 830422555422520. | 284. | 110. | 2500. |
| Carena3370. | 1310422765422650. | 643. | 370. | 6550. | |
| SMP SecurityLTD. | BritonB18K. | 584422431422454. | 147. | 43. | 395. |
| Economye23k. | 729422552422580. | 302. | 102. | 485. | |
| ANGLIAN A2316. | 824422646422677. | 870. | 97. | 3000. | |
| Home H12D. | 405422354422387. | 100 | 19,7 | 273. | |
| Aiko. | Orion-30 | 536422496422410. | 90. | 52. | 740. |
| MB-4. | 432422426422393. | 49. | 40. | 283. | |
| DC-3CL | 1950422700422500. | 345. | 346. | 2060. |