Gun safe humidity

[3S16]

I have a temp gauge and humidity meter in my safe. I have two Golden Rods in a 32 gun safe.
What humidity in your safe are you experiencing?

['ol shooter]

I'm inland empire so not nearly as much moisture as you probably get up there.
I use Eva-Dry 333's in my safes and recharge them about every other month. I also have all my long guns in Bore Stores and the handguns in good soft cases for extra protection.

[techie]

My safe's humidity stays around 40-45% with one goldenrod and a dehumidifier running on the basement. I haven't seen rust since I started using the dehumidifier. My safe is smaller than yours.

Be sure to calibrate your meter if you haven't already. I have two, one is off by 2% and the other by 8%. You use salt and water to get a known humidity level in a sealed environment. There are lots of tutorials for this on the web.

[Bobshouse]

I'd try making jerky in your safe with all that heat in there from those rods.

[yacko]

My 50 cubic ft safe is at 34% with one golden rod according to my kestrel meter.

My safe is in the house.

Kestrels are very well calibrated. A cheap humidity gauge is probably not very accurate. I bought one years ago from radio shack.. they had about 10 different ones in the cabinet all turned on for display.... they showed a difference of about 20%!!!!!!!!

[flyer898]

Ever since I moved in with a woman, my gun safe has been in the garage, yet I have had zero rust problems. The garages have been in Fair Oaks, Placerville, Rancho Cordova, and now Las Vegas.
I have not monitored the humidity inside the safe. I have not used a dehumidifier rod while the safe has been in the garage: winter, summer, hot, cold, wet, or dry. My explanation for the lack of rust is the safe contents undergo slow temperature changes. Had I used a rod to heat the inside of the safe, anytime I opened the safe door and let cold air come in contact with warm guns, the guns would have “sweated” and rust would have been a likely result.

[kcstott]

[smoothy8500]

I live on the coast

Don't get that oil on your clothes...


Yeah, I call fraud on "opening the door to the safe and the goldenrod warmed guns sweated". Not how the Dew-point works. If you said "I opened the fridge and warm air caused my cold beer bottles to sweat", that's more believable.

Of course, I don't know about flying planes, maybe ice build-up at altitude works differently...but that's not what we're talking about here.

[reverser]

[kcstott]

Don't get that oil on your clothes...


Yeah, I call fraud on "opening the door to the safe and the goldenrod warmed guns sweated". Not how the Dew-point works. If you said "I opened the fridge and warm air caused my cold beer bottles to sweat", that's more believable.

Of course, I don't know about flying planes, maybe ice build-up at altitude works differently...but that's not what we're talking about here.

My work clothes are oil cloth. I also believe you can measure the machine oil in my blood. 😂

[kcstott]