Product works well. Would use this vendor again

Easy swap with digital style

I installed an EMP Proof Sargeant & Greenleaf Mechanical Dial lock on my Cannon Scout 19 gun safe to replace the unreliable NL Electronic digital keypad lock that came with it. After 10 years the NL Electronic Keypad lock would only open after every 4 tries or so and sometimes not open at all and lock me out after the 4th try for 10 minutes. I called Cannon Safe because of the Limited Lifetime Warranty. First they had me purchase a New Duracell or Energizer Battery with an expiration date of 2027/28. Not locking the Safe for 2 weeks because I did not trust it. When that did not work I called Cannon back. They told me they would ship me a new NL digital keypad and lock body. After waiting with my safe door left open another 4 weeks, they still have not shipped my lock. I called again to see if they had shipped it yet, and the Rep said it is probably on backorder and they would send me a tracking number once it ships. After 6 weeks of having to leave my safe door open for fear I would not be able to get it open, I started researching both digital keypad locks and Mechanical dial locks. Apparently 10-15 years is pretty common for all manufacturers digital keypad locks to go bad. Not wanting to go through this hassle again. I decided on S&G Mechanical dial lock, as they are the gold standard made in USA. I ordered the S&G lock on Amazon and received it in two days. What should have been a 1 hour job turned into a nightmare. (Shoddy Cannon Safe Craftsmanship). Started the job and found the NL Lock body only had 2 out of 4 screws holding it to the safe door. Both screws they used a drill driver to install the Phillips screws and completely walered out the Phillips head. A 3rd hole was completely smooth walered out with no screw and the 4th hole was never tapped with threads. I couldn't get one of the damaged Phillip's head screws out. I had to stop and go to the hardware store to buy an Easy out screw extractor to get it out. 3 of the 4 holes the screw threads were gungered or walered out and would not accept the new screws. I had to stop again, go to the hardware store and buy two Taps, 1/4-20 for the lock body to tap screw threads in the walered up screw holes and 8-32 for the dial ring which I knew I had to tap from my research anyway. (Do yourself a favor, buy "quality" Taps and T-handle tap drivers, ie Dewalt, or Irwin). The Harbor Freight taps don't work and are junk! I know this because I tried them first. Finally after the two trips to the hardware store I completed the task of tapping the holes. From there everything was smooth sailing. I installed the S&G Mechanical Safe dial lock by watching YouTube. Thanks S&G for making a more reliable safe lock.Who knows when I will receive the replacement NL Lock from Cannon? I am much more at easy with the S&G Mechanical dial lock.

Is good. 👍

Every S&G lock I have has worked to expectation. I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it again.