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How to open your locked garage in 6 seconds

Carlo said:
Trouble with dogs is they're high maintenance. Plus, what if the thief has a gun?
Plus, keeping a dog locked up in a garage all the time is abuse.

How about a sound activated audio recording of a big dog barking? That would filter out all the unarmed thieves.
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To answer your questions:

1) If the thief has a gun: then its a life or death break-in situation. That's what my babies a trained for. and if it's the lives of my family vs my protection dogs, my dogs are the protectors, just i like i am and would do whatever i need to, to defend my family.

2) My dogs roam the entire house, and can open the door to the garage space. in fact they perk up when anyone/anything is moving around even a block away from our house in the woods

3) As protection dogs, they are trained to give very clear warning barks for any movement outside the home they don't recognize. A smart thief would move on to an easier place to break in.

And if the intruder is still intent on coming in? Well, after he gets through my 2 shephards (if it comes to that), then he will need to deal with my Mossberg 10 round shotgun....
 
Exactly. I don't even have trained dogs and I know that if they have a problem with something, they are just buying me some time. They are an early warning system that allows me to "prepare" myself.

If someone wants in to my garage, its not that hard. Just open the door, its not locked. Or go through the window, its not locked either. I protect my belongings (in the garage) with Black Widow spiders.

But seriously, I have found that the best way to defend your house/family/belongings against thieves and predators is to live in a place where they don't exist. I know, there is no such place; but the statistical reality is such that I don't worry about it. Somebody would be awfully ballsy to venture in to our neighborhood to pull a heist.
 
silliest thing people do: leave their vehicle outside in the driveway with the garage door opener in open view on the visor...

most can say so what, i do that too....but also many have 2nd cars that they take away from home leaving the said car vulnerable...
 
Maybe the first step in making homes safer is to swap the fact that a home invasion robber/rapist will get 3-5 years in prison and a bank fraud hacker will get 15-20.
 
Feanor said:
Why not put a grenade where the latch is, so they yank the pin out of the grenade instead?
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Awesome.:rofl

MrIncredible said:
When my alarm gets tripped, it plays the sound of a shotgun being racked :teeth
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They should never hear anything or ever become aware of your presence. I highly recommend keeping one in the chamber when it comes to guns both at home and on the person.:thumbup

Feanor said:
Maybe the first step in making homes safer is to swap the fact that a home invasion robber/rapist will get 3-5 years in prison and a bank fraud hacker will get 15-20.
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Another win.


Good thread and something that can be fixed with a little welded rod(s) in the right place. Time to fab something up.
 
Xenos said:
Locks are for honest people anyway
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+1

A deadbolt style lock across the door solves this. However many that have an external key cylinder for access. Are NOT the most secure way to go.

Usually they are cheap tumbler lock varieties and easily bypassed with a paper clip and torsion bar.
 
I have to admit the grenade idea was a little much, but how about an anvil suspended under the eave above the garage door, so you flip the latch, it releases the rope and drops the anvil on top of the robbers head...

It's kind of an ACME Inc Road Runner cartoon approach but that *CLANG* sound would be really satisfying...

Or maybe even a live 220V bare wire where the latch is... That could be kindof funny... It might even get the coroner to crack a smile :) I mean, what could be funnier than a charred burglar still hanging and twitching on the end of his wire hangar?
 
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snowface said:
i have exactly this type of garage.

seems like with a little fabrication (wood, metal panel about .5ft x .5ft), the hinge could be easily blocked from this type of coat hanger bidness.

thanks for posting.
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I was curious if my door had the same design so I went downstairs to check it out. As I was climbing down from the step ladder I had an idea that I thought might work...

p.s. it took me longer to find the camera and take the picture than to "fabricate" my solution.
 

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tgrrdr said:
I was curious if my door had the same design so I went downstairs to check it out. As I was climbing down from the step ladder I had an idea that I thought might work...

p.s. it took me longer to find the camera and take the picture than to "fabricate" my solution.
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Very good idea. Would take WAY too much force to pull that from the outside. And a decent bet that the internal handle will have enough strength to break free in an emergency.
 
nice work with the zip tie, and thanks for the vid.
 
Dopesick said:
Very good idea. Would take WAY too much force to pull that from the outside. And a decent bet that the internal handle will have enough strength to break free in an emergency.
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The release isn't for emergency purposes of the "I must evacuate my house now!" variety. It's for getting the garage door open when the power is out.
 
Traq said:
The release isn't for emergency purposes of the "I must evacuate my house now!" variety. It's for getting the garage door open when the power is out.
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Genie refers to it as "emergency release cord." #6

So does Chamberlain.

As well as Sears and Craftsman

If my water heater were next to my wired garage opener button, and decided to spontaneously combust while my family and I are unloading the car, I'd say it were an emergency release cord. I wouldn't wait the 10 or so seconds for the door to open in order to get my family out of there.
 
splat said:
Genie refers to it as "emergency release cord." #6

So does Chamberlain.

As well as Sears and Craftsman

If my water heater were next to my wired garage opener button, and decided to spontaneously combust while my family and I are unloading the car, I'd say it were an emergency release cord. I wouldn't wait the 10 or so seconds for the door to open in order to get my family out of there.
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+1 for those that had RTFM for the "electric opener"... :laughing
 
I figure a little metal enclosure(like the kind behind a power outlet) would be cheap and easy, yet allow instant use if needed.

Even a ribcage type would work.
 
Garage door safety's are a necessary evil, if you do not have another way to enter your garage. They are included on all the garage door openers I have ever seen, a few thousand or so....

They can be easily defeated as shown in previous vids posted. They can also be secured easily enough, as shown in previous posts.

Bump keys are a fact of life. All pin tumbler locks have some level of vulnerability to bump keys. However, Medeco is relatively secure, Schlage Primus is not too bad, Assa Twin is worth having. The rest of of the pin tumbler locks, let's just say your mileage may vary.
 
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How about mount some sort of board (maybe "straddles" the arms arc when moving) that still allows the garage door opener to function but blocks/makes it harder, for a wire to reach the latch?
 
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