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TigerKing Large Safe - 4.3 cu ft Interior, with Touchscreen Digital Keypad Lock - White, 132 lb
TigerKing Large Safe - 4.3 cu ft Interior, with Touchscreen Digital Keypad Lock - White, 132 lb
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There is a difference between what is valuable and what is irreplaceable, and most of what ends up inside a safe belongs to the second kind. The passports. The deed. A ring that was your grandmother's, and the certificate that says what it is. Photographs that exist in one place only.
This is a large steel safe built for that work. Forty inches tall, one hundred and thirty-two pounds, six one-inch live bolts turning into the frame with the hinges hidden behind the door. It is heavy enough that no one carries it out of your house in the few minutes a burglary actually lasts. Anchored to the wall through the two holes already drilled in its back, it does not move at all.
A note on the number. This safe is sold as 7.2 cubic feet — that is its exterior. Most of this trade quotes the interior, and so do we: 4.33 cubic feet, 28.4 inches tall, 19.7 wide, 13.4 deep. That is the figure to measure your belongings against.
Specifications
- Six 25mm (1") live locking bolts, solid steel body, concealed hinges
- 75mm door assembly — the steel face, the boltwork behind it and the backing plate, measured together
- 132 lbs — too heavy to be carried off, and it bolts to the wall through two pre-drilled holes (expansion bolts included)
- Touchscreen digital lock, 1–12 digit code — set four digits for speed or twelve for depth
- Two ways in: code alone, or master key plus code
- Emergency key and external battery backup, so a dead battery never locks you out of your own safe
- 60-second alarm after three wrong codes; the warning system stays armed afterward
- Interior: 28.4"H × 19.7"W × 13.4"D — 4.33 cubic feet of usable space
- Exterior: 40.2"H × 20.3"W × 16.6"D — the 7.2 cu ft this safe is sold under
- Two adjustable shelves, both fully removable
- Inner locking box — a separately keyed compartment, for the few things that want a second door between them and the world
- Leather-lined interior, LED light, one door basket, six door hooks
- Four removable wheels — for getting it into position, then off again for good
- One year of manufacturer service support
What this safe is not. It carries no fire rating, and we won't imply one. TIGERKING builds fire-rated models in a separate series; this is not one of them. It is built to defeat hands and tools, and it does that honestly. If fire is the loss you are actually guarding against — paper, or drives, or film — then a rated fire or media safe is the right instrument, and we will gladly tell you which one.
What this safe is not. It carries no fire rating, and we won't imply one. TIGERKING builds fire-rated models in a separate series; this is not one of them. It is built to defeat hands and tools, and it does that honestly. If fire is the loss you are actually guarding against — paper, or drives, or film — then a rated fire or media safe is the right instrument, and we will gladly tell you which one.
What the weight buys you
A safe is one of the few things you can judge by picking it up, which is to say by failing to.
Thin-walled safes exist in great number, and they are not all dishonest — they will stop a curious houseguest and a child, and sometimes that is the whole of the job. What they will not stop is someone who came prepared, because a light safe does not have to be opened at the scene. It can simply be taken somewhere quieter, and opened at leisure with better tools than they could carry.
At 132 pounds this one is past that line on its own, and past it entirely once it is bolted through the back into a wall stud. The six live bolts are an inch across and turn into the frame on the opening side. The hinges sit behind the door, where a pry bar cannot find them. None of that is exotic engineering. It is the ordinary engineering that ordinary safes leave out.
The inside, thought through
Most safes are a steel box with a shelf in it. This one has been considered a little further.
The two shelves adjust and lift out altogether, so the same cabinet holds flat documents one year and a camera body the next. There is an inner locking box — a safe within the safe — for whatever you would rather not have visible even to someone standing at the open door. The walls are lined in soft leather, which sounds like a flourish until you have set a watch down on bare steel. An LED light comes on when you open it, because a safe is usually opened in a closet, and closets are dark.
On the back of the door: six hooks and a basket, for keys, chains, envelopes, the small things that otherwise slide to the bottom and stay there.
On the maker
We didn't design this safe; TIGERKING did, and we think they did it well.
We carry it because at this weight and price the specification is unusually straight — six real bolts rather than four, hidden hinges, an alarm that means something, a battery backup that keeps a dead cell from becoming a locksmith's bill. Every purchase comes with a year of the manufacturer's service support, and if you would rather talk to us than to them, you can. We would prefer it.
A safe is bought once and lived with for twenty years. That is a long time to be quietly pleased, or quietly annoyed.
Questions
Is it difficult to install? No. Two holes are already drilled through the back, and two expansion bolts come in the box. Find a stud or a masonry wall, mark, drill, bolt. The wheels get it into the room; take them off before you anchor it.
Can it be opened with a key? Yes, and in more than one way. You can set it to open on the code alone, or to require the master key and the code, which is the stricter arrangement. An emergency key is included for the day the touchscreen fails or the batteries die — as is an external battery backup, so that day may never come.
Is it heavy enough that it can't simply be taken? 132 pounds is past the point where one person walks off with it, and awkward enough that two would rather not. Bolted to a wall, the question stops being about weight at all.
Can the shelves come out? Both of them, and they adjust in between. Jewelry and documents want one arrangement; a camera, a laptop, a folio wants another. The cabinet doesn't decide for you.
How long can the code be? Anywhere from one digit to twelve. Four is quick and works. Eight is what we would suggest if the safe holds anything you would hate to explain. The touchscreen doesn't slow down for a longer code.
