Field desk

[m109a2]

Bought a field desk at a yard sale three draws on the left and a safe and storage on right combo safe being on top.Is there a standard combo for this piece? Bear in mind I call this a desk it has no square hole to put your legs through.I would love to keep it up to military speck.It would pain me to drill and install a hasp need advice.By the way this thing looks like it was made for my M109 box.Al

 

[GUNNUT in Iowa]

A photo will help. I have some ideas.

 

[sigo]

50-25-50 is the usual default combination. If it's a Sargent and Greenleaf mechanical lock, their site will have instructions. If it's something else you may need to search the makers site.
http://www.sargentandgreenleaf.com/pdf/630-146_8400_op.pdf

 

[m109a2]

Hey GUNNUT. i have no way to post a pic but tomorrow I will go give it a good measure.Al

 

[m109a2]

To sigo Thank you Sir.I will try that tomorrow.Al

 

[GUNNUT in Iowa]

Hey GUNNUT. i have no way to post a pic but tomorrow I will go give it a good measure.Al

You can send me a photo by PM and I will post it for you.

I hope sigo is correct with the 50-25-50, but I would not bet on it. When I get a safe with a combo lock, the first thing I do is change the numbers.

I did buy a "teller's drawer" safe from a bank's surplus auction once. They would not announce the combo and told the crowd to contact a locksmith. Fortunately the safe was locked open - and nobody wanted to pay for a safe and a locksmith. I got the safe for next to nothing, "learned" the combo, and told the bank vice-president the combo within 10 minutes of buying the safe. I told him I thought it would have been smarter to just announce the combo during the auction. Who would have thought they would leave the actual working combo on a safe they were selling? I wonder, if they thought it necessary to change the combos on all of the remaining teller's drawers in the bank?

 

[sigo]

I picked up an old field safe off GL awhile back and it was set to the default combination. I've looked at several and all had the combination set to default prior to being surplused. I've also seen more than a few field safes in use at various units throughout my career that had never been changed from default. Hopefully nobody ever changed m109's safe

 

[m109a2]

Thank you guys y'all are great this is why I sighed on.I joined a few years ago.After a year I found my dream truck a M35 a2 with a M35 frame with a 109 box matted with a 105.(Neil Hendricks rig). Happy Happy Happy.Al