Is your front door open to new experiences? Anyone who thinks security hardware invariably comprises a knob and backplate has yet to encounter FSB purism at its most alluring: FSB 73 7360 is a sculpture of folded Stainless Steel plate 5 mm thick that boasts a most cohesive visual identity. Gone are the days when the best design was reserved for the highest security rating. FSB has turned the tables by making Security Classes 2 and 4 compatible with all security fittings in its “Design + Security” series – or, in wholly democratic vein, by opening up the technology of test winner FSB 73 7376 to all pockets.
We’re fond of appearing to lament about how our fittings last longer than would make strict economic sense. The truth of this utterance has now been indirectly confirmed by Germany’s product testing organisation Stiftung Warentest in the course of giving door securing devices a rigorous going-over.
Amongst the items tested was security fitting 73 7376 by FSB. It was awarded a mark of 1.8 (on a descending scale of from 1 to 6 in the German marking system) in winning the “Door Backplates” section (2/ES 1-ZA security rating). The product testers laid store by the lock, lock cylinder and door backplate forming a unit. The backplate makes it more difficult to twist off, break off, extract or bump out the lock cylinder. It additionally has to be ruggedly screw-fastened from the inside and be made of solid material. Piece of cake for FSB 73 7376: the degree of burglary resistance yielded by these factors actually saw our security fitting score an even higher mark of 1.4.