I live in PA and am weary of putting a gun safe in my garage. I thought about putting a "Golden Rod" dehumidifier in the safe. Is it possible for temperature changes and/or humidity to affect the firearms and contents if I put the dehumidifier in it?
2007-09-30 06:19:16 · 13 answers · asked by justin with a j 1 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
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2007-10-02 06:26:19 · update #1
Anyone have any insight if The Inhibitor or The Golder Rod is better to put into a safe in the garage? Can you use tham both together?
2007-10-02 06:27:17 · update #2
Certainly the Golden Rod will help keep out the humidity. I don't know what the average humidity is like ih PA so I don't know if the Golden Rod alone will be sufficient but unless you have some awfully high humidity, I would think it would be all that you will need. You can also get some silica gel dehumidifiers to put into your gun safe if you have any reason to think the Golden Rod is not enough. The silica gel containers will absorb humidity out of the air and when they are depleated, they will change color so you will know that it is time to regenerate them. All you have to do is to put them in your kitchen oven at a low temp for a few hours and they will be good as new again. A third alternative is to get some of the rust inhibitor bags to wrap each of your guns in. They work great. I have not heard of any one having anything negative to say about them.
If you are worried about high temperatures in your garage in the summer time, you can put in some kind of ventilation fan to suck out the hot air. They make some that have thermostats on them so that when the temp. gets to a preset level, the fan comes on. Just mount it in a window and it will keep the temps down to a more endurable level.
Just be absolutely sure that your gun safe is thoroughly bolted to the floor and/or wall studs so that it doesn't walk off. Better yet, if it has to be put into the garage, is to disguise it by building some kind of cabinet around it so it will look like something other than a gun safe. also, don't buy a cheap gun safe. They are too easy to break into. If you have very many guns, a good safe will be relatively cheap insurance against theft.
2007-09-30 08:34:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-24 05:23:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings. why would you want to put your gun safe in your garage? is a gun safe not something that one uses to keep their guns safe? In a out of the way place like the garage where it is not visible from the house how safe can the contents be? no one home, open the garage door, back a pick up in, load the safe on the truck and drive away. a tempting target for thiefs, especially if they can see the safe everytime you open your garage to come or go. Why not just put it in the house with you where you can watch the security of it at the same time as the house? and if you ever need the guns in it how much good would they do you locked up out in the garage and not where you could reach them? I use Marvel Mystery oil on mine in storage and have no rust problems here in the mountains of Maine. Get it at Wal Marts in red and black plastic containers in the auto parts area. and a thought. in the old days when people used to make their own gunstocks out of wood, they would simply use a old refrigerator that was stripped out and put their firearms or wood stock supplies in it and mount a low power light in there with them. the heat of the light kept it warm in there and dried out the moisture in the stock wood as well. Seems it would work fine for keeping the humidity down with only firearms in there. just give it a tiny vent for excess heat to escape through. and a small wattage bulb will cost a tiny fraction of what a dehumidifier and gel packs will. and the running cost is lower as well. don't use much electricity at all.
2007-10-08 01:43:27 · answer #3 · answered by Rich M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It prevents people who care about following the law from carrying their guns in those zones, but it doesn't deter the people who don't care about laws. Gun-free zones only make it safer for criminals to operate. There's nothing anywhere close to a guarantee that they'll get caught and prosecuted. Hell, there's barely a glimmer of hope, because police are an average of 10 minutes away, which is about 9 minutes and change longer than it takes for someone with a gun to do some real damage and get a head start on the police.
2016-03-19 02:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a dehumidifier, and dessicant packs as well. Even the so called "fireproof" safes will have humidity issues.At my range we had a 4 ton gun vault that not only had a built in dehumidifier, but we also used those 2 pound dessicent packs that we changed twice a year. The safe was/is rated as a fireproof safe, yet it still had humidity problems. If your garage isn't climate controlled, then you definately need to use a dehumidifier and dessicant.
2007-09-30 06:30:34 · answer #5 · answered by boker_magnum 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gun Safe Humidifier
2016-12-29 09:31:33 · answer #6 · answered by birchett 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good answers all. Not much to add except.......
Cabela's and other stores has those gun socks which are advertised to help stop rusting. They might help with long term storage, and if you ever experience a house fire, that fire hose will ruin everything in the gun case. One of our customers had two guns with those socks on them in his gun case. After having a house fire, the safe did protect them from the flames. But all of them rusted, except the two in those cheap gun socks. Well worth the $6.
2007-09-30 08:43:37 · answer #7 · answered by James D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goldenrod Dehumidifier
2016-10-01 02:49:30 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your garage has heat and AC, then by all means put a gunsafe out there, if it's not a heated and ac'd garage, put your safe in the house. Use those little packets of dryer gell.
2007-09-30 07:22:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
'Tis better to be safe than sorry - go ahead and put one in. A little cost up front will prevent a huge loss in the future.
2007-10-03 05:26:55 · answer #10 · answered by Beej 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋