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bczygan

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Cameras inside and outside the shop, even on the street to record info on who it is. Good quality color HD. Leave lights on. Get license plates and good descriptions that way. Hollow out a HF torque wrench and put a GPS tracker in it, tied to the alarm system and set up to notify you immediately through your cell phone (Poor mans Lo Jack). Leave it out on top of the box!
 
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If you are having problems it is probably the same person who has found it a good source. Set a trap. Make it convenient for the thief. Bait it and be ready to spring the trap. This will take some effort, but will solve the long term problem with this individual. Then make all the common sense precautions for anyone else.
 

Chris Adams

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Ah, more information.

Easy, cheap fix, but takes a lot of work... face the tool boxes to the wall each time you leave, and have a simple steel bar to lock the boxes in place. I could sketch something, but it's hard to describe in just words. Think box faced in, bar coming from wall, another bar coming from wall on the other side, a cross bar holding the boxes in place, with a humongous lock.

The cage idea does work, and would be fairly cheap with wrought iron as well as look nice. And the cage isn't for you to drag your tool boxes in and out, as much as it is a 'tool room'. Make it big enough you can open the drawers inside and then you can keep welders, other big ticket items in there at night.

Or check your local zoning and put wrought iron over the windows (usual theft point) the man door, etc.
You can reinforce rollup doors nicely, or replace them with retail grade rollups, like you see in industrial parks.





Other thoughts;
On the motion detector, a siren is better than a stereo or something, flashing lights on the outside wired to the inside motion detector also work good, but be careful you don't get a noise ticket if you have a false alert.


Decoy system;

Strongly secure your good tools, don't use a lot of effort to decoy some shiny but cheap tools.

You can assume most thieves will not be driving up with a huge large lorry (sorry, truck) and having six friends to help steal.
Most will be kids or bums (what we call homeless) or druggies, who will be carrying the stuff. If their hands are full of cheap junk, that they got easily, they may not move on to the good stuff.

We used to let the thieves steal stereo boxes with bricks in them, or defective stereos. Lost a lot of junk and bricks over the years...those guys never seemed to come back.
 

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Good ideas!!! Of all most 30-35 craftsman tool boxes one guy will have a key to fit you tool box and locksmiths can cut a copy for your clyinder lock from the code # I brought my cly l.ock in it was 9.75 to make a key. looking for a better lock
 

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One more suggestion. Camouflage. If they don't know they are there, they won't take them. If your boxes are at a fixed location in the building, make them a movable built in. Here's what I mean by that. Build a partition wall around them. Make it look like a permanent wall. Hang photos and shelves on it. Mount a clock or signs on it. Cover it with a material that has a lot of vertical cracks floor to ceiling, like barn wood or vertical metal strips etc. But make a portion of the wall into full height doors that open, giving you full access. Voila.......secret room/compartment.
 

oldtom

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put in gps tracking we had 243 cat7 330 excavator stolen and where tracked all the way to their shed steel frame metal clad mile from any where would have love to see there faces when cop turned up stripping machines for parts
 
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Chris Adams

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One more suggestion. Camouflage. If they don't know they are there, they won't take them. If your boxes are at a fixed location in the building, make them a movable built in. Here's what I mean by that. Build a partition wall around them. Make it look like a permanent wall. Hang photos and shelves on it. Mount a clock or signs on it. Cover it with a material that has a lot of vertical cracks floor to ceiling, like barn wood or vertical metal strips etc. But make a portion of the wall into full height doors that open, giving you full access. Voila.......secret room/compartment.

I love that, but think he may have too many tools, etc. Still a cool idea, but only works if you keep your yap shut and your friends do likewise.
 

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put in gps tracking we had 243 cat7 330 excavator stolen and where tracked all the way to their shed steel frame metal clad mile from any where would have love to see there faces when cop turned up stripping machines for parts

You know that is a great idea, now that you can get GPS trackers small and cheap. Bug the boxes, bug any big items.
 
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phoenixautorepairs

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lots of good ideas guys i like the idea of a tool room i have a 15x 6 room off the main building that i use for the compressor, drill press, hyd press if i move all the equipment out there might be enough room to put the tool boxes around the walls
 

ukcueball

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Hi Guys,

This has just been launched in the UK market and is currently exclusive to Snap On UK. It bolts to a wall or floor and the toolbox simply locates and the lock snaps shut. To lock it or open it takes as long a turning a key in the lock, simple.
http://www.international-tool-company.org/snap-lock/
The product is launched at the Sema show in Las Vegas November
 

toolfanatic

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If the tool boxes and cabinets are lined up against a wall you could fit a roller shutter over head (similar idea to the cage) to create a tool room, keeps the stuff out of sight and no one knows what's behind it. Any of the other good ideas on this thread should help to keep the tools in your posession and out of Clara Market!
 
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