Safe opening
Lockouts, lost combinations, dead electronic locks, fired relockers. Opened with the least invasive method available.

Safe & vault specialists — Ontario, serving Canada & the U.S.
Water damage, rust, jammed boltwork, lost combinations. Before you scrap a safe, let a real safe technician look at it.
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Preview
Imagine this: A rusty safe, covered in mud and algae, that had been lying at the bottom of a lake for over a month. Local fishermen pulled it ashore with their nets. Everyone thought it was just a piece of scrap metal.
But we knew: Even a safe like this can be opened and brought back to life.
We opened it without causing any damage, restored the mechanism – and today it works like new again. The documents inside had stayed dry – we took care of that, too.
If your safe is rusted, jammed, has fallen into water, or simply won't open anymore – don't throw it away prematurely. We master even the most hopeless cases.
34 days
submerged before recovery
0
damage to the safe body
100%
of the documents recovered dry

What gets done
Mechanical and electronic locks, home safes, commercial safes, gun safes, deposit boxes, bank vaults and ATMs.
Lockouts, lost combinations, dead electronic locks, fired relockers. Opened with the least invasive method available.
Group 2 and Group 1 mechanical locks, electronic keypads, time locks, key changes and re-combinations.
Rust removal, water and fire damage, boltwork rebuild, new fire insulation, repaint and re-lining.
Vault doors, day gates, hinges, boltwork alignment and time-lock service for banks and credit unions.
Anchoring, stair and basement placement, and safe transport with proper rigging equipment.
Lock service, openings and preventive maintenance for retail and financial ATM fleets.
Inside the shop
Drill rigs, borescopes, wheel packs on the bench and a spare parts wall built over decades of safe work.






Components
How it works
Photos, make and model, lock type. You get an honest answer on whether it is worth saving.
Manipulation, scoping or a controlled drill point — the least destructive route first.
Mechanism stripped, dried, de-rusted, rebuilt with correct-spec parts.
Cycle testing, re-combination, repaint and a handover you can verify yourself.
Hopeless cases
Submerged 34 days. Opened without damage, mechanism rebuilt, contents dry.
Door warped by heat. Cut-free opening, boltwork replaced, new fire lining.
Seized dial from decades of damp. Antique dial saved and re-polished.
Fired relocker on a Friday night. Back in service before Saturday opening.
Owner passed away, no combination on record. Opened and re-set for the family.
Dead solenoid after a battery leak. Keypad and lock body replaced same visit.
Continue to the workshop that performs the openings, repairs and restorations shown on this page.
Go to mckaysecurity.comCoverage
A family owned and operated corporation working with homeowners, retailers, jewellers, banks, credit unions and government sites. Service calls across Ontario, project work across Canada and the United States.
MacKay Security Services Inc.
40 Melair Drive, Ayr, Ontario N0B 1E0, Canada
+1 519-632-7824 · Fax +1 519-632-9140
Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET. Emergency openings by arrangement.
Request a callback
Send the basics and a technician will call you back. Urgent lockout? Call the workshop directly.