Where can I get the silica gel bags to dehumidify my gun cabinet?
Regards

You can usually buy the silica gel pellets from a craft store. They come in boxes and all I did was take the top off and set the open box in my safe. Works for me!

A knee high women's stocking half filled with rice will do the same thing. That's why they put rice in the salt shakers.

I like these because they are rechargeable. http://www.midwayusa.com/viewp...productnumber=599066

Here's another idea from the NW rain forest where low humidity is 80% and when it happens they declare an emergency. BTW--the rice thing does NOT work--not here anyway-- I might think it worked if I were still living in AZ--but I am not--


-- I have left my Kestrel weather station in my gun room and have tried several things. The most reliable and cost effective-- partly because you can see it working and you can see without a doubt when it needs recharging is a product called Dri-Z-Air. It is sold around here mainly as a water sucker upper from the air mainly for RVs in storage and unused rooms.
If you have a dedicated room for your guns and loading Equipment and you can shut it up when not in use, one of these units will work wonders. You do NOT want to try to use it in unauthorized containers inside gun safes--I can tell you that from experience. Still to control the humidity in a room as large as a poor person's (non republican businessmen type folks)master bedroom--it works great.

Damn, all those rifles in my safe w/o any rust sure tell a different story. While I have been lucky that I've never had to live in the NW area of America, I have lived in VA, NC, TN, and OK.

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Originally posted by fredj338:
I like these because they are rechargeable. http://www.midwayusa.com/viewp...productnumber=599066

+1 That is what I have as well, but I got mine from Natchez. Recharges by plugging into an electrical outlet and then back into the Safe. Excellent product.

Cabelas has some that are reactivated in the oven, the 33 cu ft model comparable to the Remington unit is $10 less.

http://www.cabelas.com/gun-saf...t-silica-gel-1.shtml

Other than you have to plug them in, I like the goldenrods too. Another thing that works is charcoal briquettes in cotton bags.

I use Goldenrods here in tropical Houston. They do not take humidity out of the air but heat the interiors of gun safes such that humidity will not condense on the surfaces. I've had no rust in nearly 40 years of using them.

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Originally posted by wrongtarget:
Cabelas has some that are reactivated in the oven, the 33 cu ft model comparable to the Remington unit is $10 less.

http://www.cabelas.com/gun-saf...t-silica-gel-1.shtml

Have used these for the last six years - they last almost forever. Take it out and dry it in the oven as instructed two or three times a year and they work very well. (Just pick a time when the wife doesn't want to bake and all goes well.)

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Originally posted by VAD:
Where can I get the silica gel bags to dehumidify my gun cabinet?
Regards

Try this gentleman:

http://castboolits.gunloads.co...wthread.php?t=107547

Thanks everyone

Guys I've done a few things so just sharing ideas...

Used copper sulphate in the past, dried in the oven and then once it goes blue dried it again.

I also used pink cystals. Not sure what they were. May have been silica based.

Later I fitted little computer fan in my safe, drilled about 6 or 8 holes about 10mm diameter and then fitted the fan below them and ran it to blow air out, could have put it on top I suppose but I literally stuck it to the top of the safe with 3M double sided tape. Worked great, not dehumidifying, but moving air and I had no issues close to the coast. It ran non stop whilst I lived in that house, probably for 7 or 8 years and did not burn out.

Currently I have a walk in with a real dehumidifier. It's about the size of a computer box. It takes out about 2 litres of water a week when it's really humid, in the dry season about 2 liters every month. Best thing I ever did!