Lock on Bed Lift

mobeewan wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Magnetic locks require power to keep them locked.

Not all magnetic locks require electricity.

Rev-A-Lock

NICE!!!

goducks10 wrote:
I think I would try and make a false floor. Might be a PITA to get to your firearms but if you're just doing it for competition then it wouldn't be that often.

Interesting thought, and you're completely correct, won't need immediate access.

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Magnetic locks require power to keep them locked.

Not all magnetic locks require electricity.

Rev-A-Lock

I think I would try and make a false floor. Might be a PITA to get to your firearms but if you're just doing it for competition then it wouldn't be that often.

We are firearms competitors. We intend to add that into our travels when we go semi full time. This last winter in my TT, I left most in the bed of the truck, but that's not without issues either.

the under bed storage looked like a good location in the 5th wheel.

Cummins12V98 wrote:

philh wrote:
There's a reason I want the magnet lock, it's not visible, and a potential thief would hopefully not see the lock and give up. Open to other suggestions, but I know a "lock" is an open invitation for further investigation.

What are you going to do if there is no power like parked at WalMart and you leave for dinner for example?

Or you have something in mind that works differently?

I think perhaps they mean the magnet-activated anti-toddler cabinet locks, where you hold a magnet over the mechanism to get it to disengage.

I do agree with many others that there doesn't seem to be much practical reason to have a lock there as described for security. I can see two reasons to want a locked area inside an RV. One is to keep little kids out of dangerous stuff and teens out of the S'mores chocolate, where actual security is not much of a concern. This doesn't seem to be what the poster has in mind.

The other, and I think misguided, is to keep thieves who have already broken in from valuable stuff. I'd guess that, unless you have really, really valuable stuff, the damage caused by the thieves breaking in and destroying stuff to get it out will generally exceed the value of the stuff stolen. Better to have them not destroy the bed and take the stuff than to have them destroy it and take the stuff...or destroy it and decide the stuff isn't worth taking. At that point, you probably already have a broken skylight or something.

(There may be other reasons to latch the bed up, such as to prevent it falling or drifting down due to vibration while en route.)

Unless you really beef up the framing around the bed then it won't be very hard to tear the mattress platform off the base.
Most all the framing is cheap 2x2's stapled or screwed together that probably already have a few splits in them.

There's two types of thieves IMO. The one's that are looking for an easy in like a door left unlocked or the one's that will tear open a door to get in. The 2nd version will tear the bed platform up to get it open.

Someone with a cats paw could get into just about any area on or in an RV.

philh wrote:
There's a reason I want the magnet lock, it's not visible, and a potential thief would hopefully not see the lock and give up. Open to other suggestions, but I know a "lock" is an open invitation for further investigation.

What are you going to do if there is no power like parked at WalMart and you leave for dinner for example?

Or you have something in mind that works differently?

There's a reason I want the magnet lock, it's not visible, and a potential thief would hopefully not see the lock and give up. Open to other suggestions, but I know a "lock" is an open invitation for further investigation.

Options for large scale secure storage are limited for sure in campers.
Agree, unless a thief is hurried, they would be more intrigued by something that is not commonly locked that happens to be locked particularly.

This topic came up recently and one suggestion was a "dummy" safe. Cheap or old safe, loosely attached to the structure (to "appear" bolted down), fill it with some rocks and scrap metal, so it sounds and feels like something worth while. And then creatively hide the valuables elsewhere.