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Good idea, PALUNC.

I suppose one could polish a piece of high carbon steel and hang it in the gun safe as a sentinel for rust.

My storage is technically in an unheated basement although the burner is down there. I've been using gold rods for close to 20 years, nothing has ever developed rust.
This includes the time about a half inch of water backed up into the basement, everything felt damp until it drained, but the safe contents were fine. They are all on pallets, 4 inches above the slab.

I kept a monster three door money safe on my carport for years to store my better guns when I was out of town. Sometimes, I would leave guns in there for weeks. Yes, it was outside. Never had a Goldenrod, or any problems with rust.

My basement is finished with tung and groove knotty pine. It has a tile floor and in the summer I have to keep an eye on the floor because tiny droplets of water will form on the floor because of the moisture coming up from the concrete floor underneath. So then I will have to run a dehumidifier. It has heat down there and stays really warm because of being underground.

Goldenrods have been frequently mentioned. Welp, 33 years ago my wife gave me my first gun safe, a Fort Knox. The gentleman she bought it from was the husband of one of her employees and Roger gave me a Goldenrod as a BD present. It has run continuously since February of 1993. The safe was first in the basement of our farm house and the basement leaked like a sieve. 2 inches of water on the north end was not unheard of. The south end never got wet. The safe was under the stairs and often stood in an inch of water. I never had rust on a firearm the remaining 10 years we were on the farm. That's just the way it was.

Yes, it's physics, thermodynamics.

Chief