Desiccants for Dry Gunsafes
 

A vid that combines my knowledge of air conditioning/refrigeration systems with keeping guns and gunsafes dry and hopefully rust free.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVz2cA0LT2Q

If I may add something here. If you happen to live near a mattress store that sells TempurPedic stop in and ask them for the dessicant bags that come packed in each mattress. They are huge, free, and work extremely well. I have about 20 in my safe and ammo locker.

Great tip Bonz....have a store around the corner.....mattress shopping this weekend!.....

Great vid Joe.

I need to get an ammo locker this year. I have some in the safe, some here, some there, some every damn where! What do you use and do you anchor it?

http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/pro...573b4a_400.jpg

I rent so it can't be secured properly. It won't fit through the doorway unless it's on end. With as much ammo as I have in it, picking it up will require two very large men. If you are truly concerned you can bolt it to the floor and then fill the feet with concrete. Also helps if you place weights in the bottom.

OK, I've looked at those. Thanks.

Nicely done, big guy! Thank you.

I have gang boxes like these. I do anchor them with custom made bolts. Everything I put anything valuable in is anchored, very securely. For people who rent all I ever advise it to make the box as heavy as you can and remove anything in the form of a round pipe(roller) or handtruck or furniture dolly, even a pry bar, from the premises. People can be sooooo ignorant. They secure their belongings then leave the thief the tools to breach their security. My neighbor here in Boca lost all his family jewelry like that. Crooks(his kid's friends), used his own tools from his garage, to pull a wall safe out. The kids were busted a year later for another theft, his stuff never recovered. Secure your stuff and do not enable the crooks!

I have a small room in the back of garage. It is maybe 6x10 and I have one of those portable AC units ducted outside thru a 4" hole. It exhausts condensate with the air.

I additionally have Eva Dry dehumidifiers, one in each safe, the kind you heat in electric plug to recharge when damp and a freestanding EvaDry unit with a 16 ounce reservoir. Everything seems to work, but I do occasionally get a little mold stuff in the dead holster drawer. Guns look fine.

Any suggestions MMJ? I don't really have room for big bags of desiccant in the safes.

You can put handfuls of ones in my video in corners. I don't put those huge bags in the safes, I have smaller bags I put desiccants in and toss them in any nook or cranny of the safe, two months stay in time.
You can also go to the Dollar Store-Dollar General and buy the little tub desiccants. Tear to protective top off, put in safe, when crystals are kaput water will be in the tub, throw away. The Dollar type stores sell them for 1/3 of the regular stores.
Any mold is a great warning sign. I had mold in a corner of my "man room" up in SC, turned out was a roof leak.....52K in damage. In another few months the house would have been totaled had I not seen the mold.
Was it you that was making the room dehumidified a while back on FCC?

Thanks, pal. Off to the dollar store,
It wasn't me on FCC.

I like the box idea and I never knew about the desiccants at the mattress store. Looks like two field trips this weekend for me. :)