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Get the largest Goldenrod you can fit in there across the bottom and be done with it.
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Get the largest Goldenrod you can fit in there across the bottom and be done with it. Amen. I have a very big safe that has been in an unheated space for at least 15 years. I put the biggest Goldenrod I could find in it when I got it and it has withstood temperature shifts from 100 down to about 14 degrees each year for all that time. Regardless what the outside temp is I can open that safe and the contents are warm and dry, with not one speck of rust over those 15 years. With the Goldenrod in there you can just fuggedaboutit. SRH
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Thanks guys. I'm going to stop by Cabelas on my way home from hunting today and look at the golden rods. I brought two guns in last night and with it being so dry here in CO, I believe it would be fine but I think I'm going to throw a golden rod in it just in case.
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I don't believe the dew point has anything to do with inanimate objects. Not correct. By definition the dew point is the temperature at which water vapor in the atmosphere will condense to form liquid dew. If the temperature in your gun safe reaches the dew point liquid dew will form on the firearm and rust may form on any iron based metallic parts, including internal parts.
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Siberian trappers and professional hunters NEVER take their guns inside, even when temperatures drop to -40C. The guns are hung on pegs outside the hut. Cold won't harm a gun. Rapid changes of temperature will (like someone said before).
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Pop a coffee cup warmer in there with a cup of water, ....will bring up the temp and humidity. No! Do not follow this advice. You are trying to keep your guns from rusting. This might be a great idea if you were attempting to turn your safe into a damp box for rust bluing or browning. Put a Goldenrod in there, and you'll be fine. That coffee cup suggestion would be an excellent way to go if you want rusty guns and a safe full of the nastiest fungus/mold you've ever seen or smelled. Warm, dark and wet.....great for mushrooms too. I've seen it.
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