First Numbers

Within one turn of the combination wheel, youБЂ™ve picked up the first disc. On the back of the first disc thereБЂ™s a pin at the same radius as a pin on the front of the second disc, so by the time youБЂ™ve spun the combination wheel around twice, youБЂ™ve picked up the second disc as well. Keep turning the wheel, and a pin on the back of the second disc will catch a pin on the front of the third disc, which you now set into the proper position with the first number of the combination. Now you have to turn the combination wheel the other way one full turn to catch the second disc from the other side, and then continue to the second number of the combination to set the second disc. Again you reverse direction and set the first disc to its proper place. Now the notches are lined up, and by turning the wheel to ten, you open the cabinet. Well, I struggled, and I couldnБЂ™t get anywhere. I bought a couple of safecracker books, but they were all the same. In the beginning of the book there are some stories of the fantastic achievements of the safecracker, such as the woman caught in a meat refrigerator who is freezing to death, but the safecracker, hanging upside down, opens it in two minutes ...»