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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buzzdraw" data-source="post: 2046828" data-attributes="member: 385">Never close the door on an open safe, with a questionable combo or functionality, until you have at least triple tested the combo and verified normal operation.  It may be necessary to open up the back of the door and get at the mechanism for service.  This is sure a lot easier if the door is open.Be gentle with spinning the dial; "smoothly turning" is much easier on the mechanism than rapidly spinning.  Be very precise on stopping on the number exactly.  Pause there a bit in fact.Some of the less expensive safes will have a 3 digit combo.  They run first digit from counter-clock, to 2nd digit clock-bypass it once, to 3rd digit clock-wise, open door.Better safes will have a 4 digit.  They run: clear counter-clock 4-6 times (remember gentle and smooth) to first digit.  Clock to 2nd digit, stopping on it at end of 3rd turn.  Counter-clock to 3rd digit, stopping on it at end of 2nd turn.  Then clock to zero, open by operating handle.  Be gentle and smooth at all times.  Stop precisely on the number and pause.  If anywhere in the opening sequence you mess up, you might as well clear 4-6 times, gently counter-clock, and start over.Once upon a time, late in the evening, I decided that I needed to change the combo on a 4 digit, due to potentially compromising, before going out of town.  I took the provided combo change key, sorta looked at the instructions and had at it.  BAD IDEA!  I had resent the combo, but to who knows what combo.  Two hours later, after taking the time to carefully study the change instructions, as well as considerable time looking over the mechanism and how it was engineered to work, I had it set to a combo that works. Be gentle, be precise and be patient, at all times, with your dial-type safes.</blockquote>

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