Re: Favorite Gun Safe
26Turner's has a sale on a Browning safe. $700. I'm tempted by it, as my safe is overflowing.
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Just a note... they'll steal the safe if it is at all portable. Ask me how I know?senorgrand wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:17 pm Looking for a good safe to keep a couple of handguns in my bedroom closet. Recommendations welcomed.
Gotta fit a 5" N Frame in there, plus a J Frame.
I miss having a protective cat. The most recent cat got rehomed for bringing too many of her own pets into the house (turned out the rodents she was catching were part of a different problem, but she seems happy where she is, being a barn cat with plenty of hunting options).CDFingers wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 6:05 pm This is an ancient thread, but I still prefer my combination lock safe that's bolted to the wall and floor and locked inside a bedroom closet. Fuck the bad guys anyway. I have protective cats with whom one should not mess, eh.
CDFingers
YMMVrolandson wrote: Sat Nov 14, 2020 4:10 pm Discussed in slightly greater detail in this thread...
https://www.theliberalgunclub.com/phpBB ... fe#p727346
Specifically...Ultimately, should one read through the linked thread, the solution was two-fold:rolandson wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:02 amHi.Marlene wrote: Sun Oct 08, 2017 4:35 pm Zinc works in wet systems, but not so much in a dry drawer.
I keep these in my safes and parts/tool/die boxes.
https://www.amazon.com/Zerust-Rust-Prev ... +inhibitor
https://www.amazon.com/Zerust-VC2-2-NoR ... +inhibitor
Been awhile hasn't it...!?
Sorry for resurrecting an old chestnut but...always preferred that to creating new, back in the day, as it were.
PSA:
I made an unhappy discovery yesterday that I thought worth sharing; rust forming on items inside my safe, which maintains a perfectly controlled environment for metal storage. Or so I thought.
I couldn't understand why a micro-layer of rust would develop on well prepared and cared for items inside my safe, whereas similar items stored outside of the safe remained rust free.
Turns out is not humidity. It's the result of the materials used to line the interior of the safe; drywall for fire resistance and carpeting for aesthetics. The sulfur and formaldehyde used in manufacturing are continuously evaporating out of these materials and contaminating the atmosphere inside.
Thus the item purchased to protect the things inside is, in reality, destroying them. Now admittedly it's not a terribly expensive safe, but...?
For the time being I've opted for VCI bags from the same folks Marlene mentioned. Sooner rather than later I'll strip the interior out of the safe, as I expect these materials are doing to the safe what they are doing to my stuff.
Thought I'd mention it.
First, Winchester refunded the purchase price of the safe, without, I'm surprised to say, asking anything of me in return.
Second, I took the safe apart (learning a great deal about combination locks in the process), stripped the interior, removed all the rust and corrosion, treated the interior with penetrating oil, reassembled...
And bingo! I've a metal box with a combination lock on the door that provides a place to keep stuff.
Yea!!!
I haven't detected any damage to the stuff I had inside, but I am religious in regularly checking.
US made safe residential security box. Says so right on the door! The drywall I pulled out of it had "made in USA" printed on it.tonguengroover wrote: Sun Jun 12, 2022 5:36 pm Just wondering how often you open your safe. Maybe if you opened it more it wouldn't have fumes built up.
Foreign made stuff, you know asia area use a lot of formaldehyde as I don't think it's regulated. I remember chinese drywall making people sick and people having to strip their homes to the studs.
My Liberty Safe is made in USA and I open it a lot, well the wife stores jewelry and laptops in there. It got interior plugins . So you could run a dehumidifier in it as well.
Revisiting this thread. I didn't realize when I wrote this comment that I would be changing houses so soon, but here I am.BearPaws wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:47 am When I bought my "big" safe, I looked at what was readily available that would hold more than I expected to accumulate. Easy places were Cabela's and the locally-owned locksmith company, but it turns out that Harbor Freight, Lowe's, Tractor Supply, and a couple other places near me had options (not all of them good, several of them far larger than I expect to need). This a year or so after there was a place a quarter-mile from my house that specialized in Liberty safes closed for lack of business (or so I would assume).
I bought an American Security model from the locksmith company, and for a little while used a few full ammo cans to ballast the thing until I figured out where to mount it. I eventually added some blocking between the floor joists in the chosen spot (since I had crawl space access), and used some fairly long lag screws to anchor the thing.
Could it be ripped out by a would-be thief? One supposes so, but it would require a Herculean effort, and a fair bit of time. The smaller safe, used for ammunition, is secured to the wall but rests atop the gun safe for now. If we change houses, I'll have to figure out a better arrangement. (edited to add emphasis)
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