Costco Sale Bighorn Gun Safes

View · by **LarryP** on Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:39 am

Got a email from Costco- Gun Safes on sale- passing it on.

A. Bighorn B7144EL Heavy Duty Safe
$1,499.99 Delivered
After $400 OFF

B. Bighorn B6039EL Heavy Duty Safe
$1,099.99 Delivered
After $300 OFF

Valid through 12/19/12. While supplies last

View · by **lucycan** on Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:26 pm

I've been waiting for this sale! Picked up a 6039 today.

By most measures these are excellent safes.

I just need to figure out how to bolt it down when it arrives.

View · by **SparkyJeff** on Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:38 pm

lucycan wrote:I've been waiting for this sale! Picked up a 6039 today.

By most measures these are excellent safes.

I just need to figure out how to bolt it down when it arrives.

Excellent question!
What is the best/easiest/most secure way to bolt a large safe to the floor?
I'm not safe shopping yet, but my interest in how **** works requires some input here.

View · by **Retread1911** on Tue Nov 27, 2012 6:33 pm

I have a 36ECB bolted to the floor in the garage now. I love it. It is my second safe and the costco bighorn models are the way to go for cost benefit in my opinion.

To bold it to the concrete you will need a bit for every hole and a 400 RPM heavy duty drill. Goes fairly quick.

Cheers

View · by **promod1385** on Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:30 pm

Retread1911 wrote:I have a 36ECB bolted to the floor in the garage now. I love it. It is my second safe and the costco bighorn models are the way to go for cost benefit in my opinion.

To bold it to the concrete you will need a bit for every hole and a 400 RPM heavy duty drill. Goes fairly quick.

Cheers

If your smoking a bit on each hole your doing it wrong, you need a hammer drill. I would also look at some Hilti concrete epoxy, they have the best epoxy bolt system going.

View · by **afossum** on Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:18 pm

Agree, hammer drill is the only way to go. Hilti makes great stuff, but for the epoxy you may need the gun. A cheap alternative would be "quick bolts". Should be able to find them at your local hardware store/home center or Fasenal.

Al

View · by **lucycan** on Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:53 pm

Can I rent a hammer drill? Where would one rent one?

View · by **White Horseradish** on Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:00 pm

lucycan wrote:Can I rent a hammer drill? Where would one rent one?

Any tool rental place should have them. Alternately, maybe you could put up a case of beer and someone from the board will bring over theirs. :mrgreen:

View · by **xd ED** on Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:06 pm

Make sure you're using carbide tipped bits, and drilling straight into the hole. Burning up a carbide tipped bit on garage floor concrete isn't likely to happen. A hammer drill will make the job easier/ faster.