Lock on Bed Lift
Has anybody ever put a lock on a lifting bed? I'm thinking of those locks that are released by a magnet, so it doesn't look like it's locked.
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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.)
