Add a really loud siren INSIDE the shop in addition to the one on the
outside. If you break in and can't hear anything but loud noise, you won't
hang around. You can't hear your accomplice, the police or yourself think.
I hope this does not fall on deaf ears.
Gil
-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Burkheimer [mailto:rex@txol.net]
Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 9:27 AM
To: Dave Williams; shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Shop security
Since the theft, I have added a burglar alarm to the shop. I bought a
2-zone RS model, with switches on both the overhead door and the people
door, plus a motion sensor. Will also add a bar with padlock over the front
door on the outside. Since there is no phone, I have it wired to a really
loud siren on the top of the roof. Also have a strobe light at the front
edge of the roof. I feel pretty secure with this setup, and I probably will
add to it. Any suggestions?
Rex Burkheimer
J-CON Coordinator, WM Automotive Whse Fort Worth TX
Texas Region SCCA FC #19 Reynard
rex@txol.net rburkheimer@hotmail.com
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>
> -> Sorry for your loss. Had that happen to me in May, bastids broke into
> -> my shop and took EVERYthing of ANY value - $3500 worth, most of it
> -> new.
>
> It hasn't happened to me, but I worry about it. Here in the 'hood they
> managed to kick the back door of the house completely out of the wall to
> get in, but they haven't made it into the shop yet. I have no windows
> in the shop, no external hardware on the bay doors, and a steel entry
> door with a wire mesh (like the kind they use for walkways) "screen"
> door, both with deadbolts only.
>
> Of course, most of the really valuable stuff in the shop is either too
> heavy to move or too esoteric to be recognized of value, not that losing
> some of the little stuff wouldn't hurt.
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