Unbelievable! This forum has absolutely everything!
I have been out in the garage for the last couple of hours trying to rip apart a Sentry safe whose handle has broken. We have two, and I don't think this one has anything important in it, but there's something rattling around in there, I'm retired and can do whatever I want whenever I want, and I like to destroy things.
The reason we have two is that we bought one (years ago), but it was defective. I called Sentry and they said they'd send me a new one. After a couple of weeks I hadn't seen it, so I called again. Three days later I came home from w*rk and there were 2 150 lb. safes sitting at my front door. I called Sentry again, but for some reason they didn't want to pay to ship the extra one back.
So, two safes. I set them up redneck style, one on top of the other. I did put the broken one out with the trash and somebody hauled it away.
Anyway, we moved and when we got to the new place I couldn't get one of them open. The handle broke. So I stuck it in the garage for a couple of years. I dug it out the other day and decided to see how hard it was to break into.
Hard! Very hard! I sawed through the hinges with a hacksaw, and started peeling back the metal cover. So I'm happily sitting there digging out all this chunky white drywall-y looking stuff when DW strolls by and says "I hope that isn't asbestos."
So a quick but thorough shower later I'm on the computer trying to see what it is. The Sentry site doesn't specify the material that I can find so I head over to Google. After a couple of friendly and helpful lawyers telling me what to do after I get Mesothelioma, the very first hit is this thread. Good old CFB! Not only do I discover I'm probably not going to die of that particular cancer, but I figure out what I'm doing wrong. I don't like Chardoney, but I think my Macallan single malt should do the trick.
I'll let you know if I actually find anything in there. Hopefully I won't destroy the contents in the process.