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Buck's Gun Rack proudly offers Champion Safes. All safes come with the following product technology.
| BODY |
| A Champion Safe body is pressure
formed from thick A-36 carbon steel plate with fully welded top and
bottom caps--not from smaller pieces of steel skip-welded together.
Unlike our competitors, all welds are continuous. |
| DOOR |
 All
Champion doors are built out of heavy A-36 carbon steel plate with
sandwiched fire insulation (except Sport Series). A composite door
offers more security and better fire protection than a plate steel
door. |
| HINGES |
| Champion uses only heavy-duty, ball
bearing internal hinges. Internal hinges cost considerably more but
add additional security. |
| DIAMOND EMBEDDED ARMOR-PLATE™ |
 To
protect the lock from attack, Champion is the only home security
safe company to bond industrial diamonds to its through-hardened,
tungsten steel hardplate--whereas many safe companies use only case
hardened mild steel to save costs. |
| BOLTWORKS |
 According
to many locksmiths, Champion has the "strongest, smoothest boltworks
in the industry." Champion is the only company to use active bolts
on all of its safes--no cheap dead bolts. Roughneck™ bolt guides
provide lifetime ease of operation. |
| LOCKS |
| Champion Safe uses the two best locks
built in the world. All mechanical locks are Sargent & Greenleaf™;
all electronic locks are made by LaGARD™ or Sargent &
Greenleaf™--the two most reliable electronic locks made in America. |
| AUTO-RELOCK™ SYSTEM |
| Champion Safes feature multiple
relockers that collectively protect a safe against drilling and
forced entry. |
| GLASS-GUARD RELOCK™ SYSTEM |
 Champion
Safe is the only home security safe company to use a glass,
bank-vault type relocker. Glass relockers come standard in our Crown
Series. |
 
| DO YOU NEED FIRE PROTECTION? |
| Papers and documents char at temperatures around
405°. Guns are damaged from temperatures exceeding 500°. To protect
documents and other possessions during a home fire, the internal
temperature of the safe should remain below 350°. This is why we
include Phoenix Fire Protection standard on all models--so your
safe's contents won't end up cremated. |
| FIVE LEVELS OF FIRE PROTECTION |
- Phoenix™ Class I Fire Protection
30 Minutes at 1200°F. -- Standard on Sport
- Phoenix™ Class II Fire Protection
45 Minutes at 1250°F.
- Phoenix™ Class III Fire Protection
1 Hour at 1350°F. -- Standard on Trophy
- Phoenix™ Class IV Fire Protection
1 Hour 30 Minutes at 1500°F. -- Standard on Triumph
- Phoenix™ Class V Fire Protection
2 Hours at 1500°F. -- Standard on Crown
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| WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FIRE TESTING |
| Examine fire test claims made by safe
manufacturers can be confusing and misleading. Unfortunately no
universal standards exist for fire testing in the safe industry.
Each manufacturer tests its own products at different laboratories
to varying standards. Furnace ramp-up times, thermocouple placement,
the addition of water, safe position (vertical vs. horizontal), and
use of shields can all be used to produce more favorable ratings.
Some companies test to half hour standards while others test for
longer periods of time. Of course, the longer the test, the more it
indicates about the quality of a safe and its fire protection. Half
hour fire tests don't measure the endurance of a safe and provide
for minimal ratings. Here's why. Up to half of the test is spent
ramping the furnace up to the desired temperature--the safe is not
subject to the full intensity of the fire and heat for the full
test. Then the heat transfer gradient must be considered. Very
little temperature change occurs inside a safe during the first 10
minutes of a test--maybe 10° or 20°. It takes time for heat to
transfer. Obviously, 30 minute fire tests don't reveal very much
about a safe's fire resistance. |
| FIRE INSULATION |
Regardless of the confusing claims of
"proprietary insulation," "Double-wall," "Triple-Wall," or
"Quad-Wall," most home security safes use basically the same type of
fire insulation--gypsum or sheetrock. Yes, the same stuff found in
your home. Why is gypsum used over other materials? Because when
gypsum is heated over 262°, it releases water vapor--cooling the
safe's interior. Until the moisture is baked out of the gypsum the
interior of the safe will stay in the 200° to 300 ° range. This is
why gypsum is the best fire insulation for safe applications.
There's no magic involved in fire testing. How well a safe performs
in a fire test depends on: the amount of gypsum in the safe, how
well it is installed (no cutouts hinge pockets), door rigidity and
door seal effectiveness. |
| CHAMPION'S FIRE TESTING |
Four of Champion's standard production line
safes-- Sport, Trophy, Victory, Triumph 25, and Crown 30 were placed
vertically inside a Certified Fires 12 million BTU furnace. Four
unshielded temperature sensors, positioned near the top and bottom
of each safe, were connected to two separate temperature recorders
to verify internal temperatures.
Within 5 minutes of ignition, 6 natural gas fired burners, with
flames blazing 15 feet long, heated furnace to over 900°--a much
faster ramp-up time than a home fire. The test continued for two
hours--heating the steel exteriors to cherry red. Afterwards, when
examining the burned safes we found intense heat had buckled and
deformed the safes' shells but the door on all four safes remained
straight and sealed.
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