How to drill A Cannon Gun Safe
Cannon Digital Gun Safe Fail Fix! Locked Out! Don't Drill - TRY THIS FIRST!
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folks if your keypad fails on your safe
um don't pay a locksmith to drill it out
try this
first um i did and it really worked it
helped me out it saved my safe and it
saved me about eight hundred dollars
before you go any further this video is
not about breaking into a safe
this is how to get back into a safe that
you own
and already have a combination for when
your keypad fails
this works most of the time at least
worked for me
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so my 20 year old canon safe recently
died at least the electronic keypad on
it did and um
my glove cannon they were nice enough to
replace it they're sending me one
and uh told me that i had to get safe
drilled in order to replace it
so i was uh getting drilled
okay i call the local safe company
they wanted 800 to drill the safe they
actually told me four to eight hundred
dollars and i said it'd be probably
better to replace the safe
and they said we'd be happy to sell you
one um i didn't uh
go pursue that any further because i
said there's got to be a better way so i
did a little bit of research this is
what i found
the front panels or the locks that canon
uses
are legard lg also if you peel away the
little sticker in front of it you'll
find it
and i did some research made some calls
and they do
make replacement panels so let me show
you what i've got here
if you've got a canon safe this is
probably what you have
i've already dismembered this one and i
put it back together to show you how i
was able to get this
off so the first thing you need to do is
you know with the tip of a screwdriver
peel the numbers off and uh
underneath here you'll see there's two
little sockets there and yeah
unfortunately you also have to take this
off
any of you familiar with electronics
know what that is
and inside of here you'll find two
screws
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phillips
now lg i took the little cannon sticker
off and it says lg legard
have upgraded these front panels twice
and they are backwards compatible
so this whole thing will come off
now the one thing that you need to be
aware of is that these new ones
i'm lucky in that there's uh four holes
already drilled in the safe
apparently the new ones are vertical and
that lets you replace it directly
now this little connector goes to the
locking mechanism
that locking mechanism that lock and
mechanism was it
was in the back that locking mechanism
was in the back of this
and i actually broke it was facing down
um i ended up tearing it out because
worse worse comes to worse i was going
to cut the safe open um
which isn't that hard to do but that
would destroy it
but if i have to repl if i have to pay a
hundred dollars get it drilled i'm just
gonna get a new safe
cut safe open get everything so this
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this little cable connects to
this the new
the replacement panels that have been
upgraded twice already
uh 5715s i believe they're called and
i'll get you that part and i'm going to
put links to it in the description
are backward compatible what um
reputable
lock and safe um distributors have told
me
is i should be able to replace the front
panel
um directly put a battery in it and open
it right up
um the code is maintained inside
in the locking mechanism so we're going
to try that before i destroy the safe
i'd rather just
spend the money now canon is sending me
a replacement
if it's a 5715 it shouldn't be an issue
i should be able to connect this
and open it up with the original
combination
now canon says you need to drill it the
local safe guy says you need to drill it
so
we'll see hopefully not if we don't i'm
going to save me
and hopefully you uh hundreds of dollars
in replacing one of these things
i'm not usually one to be really down on
uh vendors but uh it's been five weeks
and canon still hasn't shipped so i
called them
and what they told me is it's still in
backorder so i went ahead and ordered
one
off of ebay and um got it today
so i'm pretty excited to see if this is
gonna work or not
uh this is from the guard
lg it's a 5715 let me
show you what it looks like upside down
uh looks similar only difference is
there's no
compartment on the bottom for the
battery the batteries are put in through
the back
and looking at this one i'm a little
concerned because
there is a cable already in there and i
have no way of putting this cable into
the safe so we're going to find out how
this is going to work
first thing i'm going to do is i'm going
to take the back off just to find out
what it looks like inside here
let's do that now
yeah this cable has got me a little
concerned because
if i have to feed this cable into the
safe then kind of toast this whole uh
this whole project and expenditure was
for nothing but we'll find out
so this is what we got um basically this
cable
is tied in to a little connector which
looks to be identical to the connector
that's on the uh
on the safe itself so the next step is
uh
let's go ahead and test this i'm gonna
hook up the cable
from the safe to the connector on this
uh control pad put a battery in it
and see what happens and hopefully this
will
fix the problem we'll find out
all right so we're at the safe
and um this does fit let me see if i can
get a close-up
so you can see exactly what i'm doing
what i'm going to do here is connect
this cable
to this connector flat end down or
that's the way here the other cable was
installed
get this installed it's clicked in
it's a good start i'm going to put the
battery on
batteries on just going to hold it
of course i'm not going to tell you what
my combination is so if you wait for
that
it's not going to happen but let's try
and see
i have success
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all right let's do that again again um
i actually forgot the combination but um
what i'm doing is i'm keying in the
original combination
that uh this safe had before the uh
before it failed
and um as i was told by a master safe
smith i guess you could call it
um the code is actually on the inside
component not on
the keypad so haven't said that here we
go again
and there we go
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all right so i'm going to get ready to
permanently install this i don't want to
stress that cable out so i'm going to
pull that
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so let's go ahead and get that keypad
installed
let me show you how they're installed on
these saves
the old keypads were screwed in you
basically had to destroy the keypad the
new saves actually have
these mounting screws
and the way these work is they screw in
and the front panel basically slides on
kind of locks in place but not really
secure
so the way these are going to go on
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is on top luckily
there must be a standard safe
manufacturer's follow because
at least the threads seem to to match
now there's already a hole in the safe
that's not going to give you access to
the area you need to get to to market
or you wouldn't have to drill it in the
first place
all right so those two screws are in
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so here's the two mountain screws and
the way these will work
this mountain plate will basically
go on like so actually like so
and
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snap on also means it can
snap off
so we want to make sure when we mount
this
back onto this guy
that this tab faces towards the bottom
all right yeah so
here comes the fun part let's take the
battery out
and i say this is the fun part because
what we want to do
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is we're going to have to run this wire
through here
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connect it
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know this is kind of hard to see all
right getting it back together
just uh reconnected this let's tuck this
in here
and um i want to make sure this tabs
towards the bottom
so that's the way it will be
move this out of the way
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so
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do
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and there we go
we have a new combo on the safe actually
i'm going to open it
and there we go easy
earlier i mentioned why you don't want
to drill a safe and there's a very good
reason for not drilling the safe because
with these new combinations i think
almost all the safes use this style
where it pops right off
and what that means if you have drilled
the safe to open it up
that means that anybody that really
wants to get into your safe that
understands
even a modicum of how saves work we'll
be able to pop this off stick a
screwdriver or whatever in that hole
and open up your safe so drilling a safe
really compromises it
and um as far as i'm concerned you might
as well just cut the damn thing open and
throw it away or use it as a storage
vault of some kind
because it's that really it's not really
secure anymore anyway let me put this
one back together
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and um
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as a pleasant sound i've not been able
to get into this guy for
quite a while now and actually it's time
to change the
desiccant dehumidifier but uh anyway
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