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Crude....but one of these has crossed my mind a few times. I know I could make a insert to hold a bunch vertically, desiccants in the bottom.

Some TufGlide on the blades, Mike. Smear it on, wipe it off. Done for like forever.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Some TufGlide on the blades, Mike. Smear it on, wipe it off. Done for like forever.

Oh man, I should have written that down a couple few years ago when you made the suggestion to use that stuff. I get so caught up with the fun projects and forget to do my chores... I'm gonna have nightmares of Tom dressed up like Mr. Miyagi telling me :
"wax on, wax off, MikeT-San"

I was looking at antique cigar carousels.. totally out of my price range but would be so cool to put straight razors inside..

Mike...I buy you books and you eat the covers off of them!

Hello? Toddler? Cigar carousel with pretty razors? Nosirree!

One of the zerust products is called Plastabs. Hard pieces of plastic that emit the rust-inhibitor. I recently purchased some 1" x 1" (about 1/16" thick) squares to throw in with my razors, knives, and tools.
I've heard of dry rice in pantyhose being used for desiccant bags.

I told the wife to give me all those little bags that come in boxes of things she buys that say DO NOT EAT. I got lots of them now of all sizes. And it only took a few months. If I knew how much stuff she bought I would have told her this last year.

I have the dessicant bags everywhere as well, Jerry.
Every A/C compressor comes with one.

A friend who works for a German company's location here gave me a bag of some big ones which were included in machinery.
Stuff works remarkably.

I think I remember reading somewhere that you can reset/refresh desiccant pouches by throwing them in a pan and heating them up.
Can't remember the temp though..

You can, in a toaster oven or regular oven, @170 or so.
Ideally open the sacks to see the desiccant itself. Bake until Blue colour is restored.
Water absorption will occur until Blue is gone again. Then bake and repeat.

Air compressor systems sometimes use large stacks of desiccant in vertical columns as their air dryers. These dryers re usually sold in pairs. When one is in use the other goes through a heat cycle to bake off the collected moisture. Then they switch. Gets couple years life out of them befor the entrained oil in the compressed air renders the desiccant useless.

I use emitters, VCI paper and silica gel. I have emitters in my safe, gun cabinets, display cases. As well I wrap stored stuff in paper and have the silica packs scattered everywhere. I remeber having canisters from Lee Valley that the gel would change colour when moist and then they would get baked at a low temperature and go back to white when dry.