Four Parts: If you've forgotten the combination to your safe, resorting to a professional locksmith could cost a lot of money, while forcing your way through could ruin both tools and safe. Cracking the combination yourself takes a great deal of patience and effort, but you are rewarded with a full wallet, an undamaged safe, and a sense of satisfaction. The highly detailed steps in this article can also provide fantastic details for any writers of fiction wishing to include a dramatic safe cracking scene in their work.

Read on from step one to found out how to open a safe you have permission to crack or a fictional one! Wings Of War Demo. Understand a safe's wheels. Also called tumblers, these circular objects encircle the spindle but are not attached to them. They must be caught by the drive pin in order to rotate. • A combination lock has one wheel for each number in its combination (typically 2–6). For instance, a lock with a 3-number combination (e.g. 25-7-14) has three wheels.