[Milsurplus] FW: Container storage

[GENE BALINSKI]

I have personally witnessed  the results of long term storage in containers, and I highly recommend AGAINST it.   Upon opening, the mold levels were so high as to prevent entry for 2 days.  Once we got in there, mostly everything in the container had to be trashed with the possible exception of the contents of  some weather-tight sealed boxed. I even saw aluminum "hair" on aluminum tuning.  For reference, the container was located in Metro Boston, and not in a tropical environment.  

As one of the other posters mentioned, about the only way to make it acceptable it to install a dehumidifier with condensate auto-pump (the bigger, the better, along with  a heater with thermostat to ensure that the dehumidifier does not get into a freeze-up situation.   Additionally I would recommend storing in weather-tight containers.   Be sure that the containers do not out-gas as that could cause issues with electronics as well

73,
Gene K1NR



> On June 14, 2020 at 6:42 AM "Antonio A. S. Magalhaes" <asmagal at fc.up.pt> wrote:
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>     I had also problems with humidity in my house shop. After four years living abroad, I found all my stuff - mostly mechanic tools - severely rusted. Recently, I bougth from Germany a commercial dehumidifier and I have always 50% of relative humidity inside. That could work in a container, if you close your eyes when receiving your energy bill.
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>     Best regards from rainy Portugal,
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>     Antonio/CT1TE.
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> >         From: Hubert Miller
> >         Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 7:58 PM
> >         To: antiquewirelessassociation
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> >         Subject: FW: Container storage
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> >         A friend of mine, who lives up around where I used to live til 1995, north of Seattle WA, put a container on his property to keep his various hoardings.
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> >         I thought about this and wondered about condensation.
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> >         I have a '92 minivan, a cargo van with no insulation. I don't know if the seals are shot now or maybe I just didn't notice this earlier. But on winterish
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> >         days, when there's a lot of humidity in the air, and after the sun sets the temperature plummets, you feel the roof of the van inside and it's wet. As in,
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> >         up to dripping wet!
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> >         I recently bought a new van and it's a cargo – passenger hybrid with more windows and insulation on all interior surfaces. No more soggy cardboard
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> >         and rusting tools inside this one !
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> >          
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> >         Barry,
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> >           I am convinced that containers are a real risky proposition to store radio collections in.
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> >           We had a SK that stored his excess material in a container, and nearly everything was turned to junk: There was rust and mold everywhere (SW WA, where we have about 8-9 months of rainy weather every year). Very little was salvageable... A true shame.
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> >          
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> >         73, -Tom N1BEC/7
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