desicant - where to get it?

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desiccant - where to get it?

Been looking around for someplace local to buy desiccant but so far haven't come up with anything. There are plenty of places that sell it online but it seems like something that should be relatively easy and cheap to buy locally. Have tried BassPro shop, a bunch of gun shops, Academy, Big 5, Wal Mart, Lowes, and a few other places without luck. Any idea what kind of place might have it?
 
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im sitting here looking at a box full of it :D not for sale though lol we use it to perserve engines with :)
 
go to midway USA and look up desiccant (you spelled it wrong).

I buy the 40 gram cans with the indicator window. They also have a larger size for gun safes.

before that I bought paper/plastic bags from a company called Zorb-It that made a size specifically for ammo cans.
 
I understand you want to buy locally, but to be honest, its likely that youll find a much better deal online.
Atleast that was the case when I started shopping
 
go buy some beef jerkey. i usually buy a small bag a week when im driving. the little bags they put in. i keep in my cup holder then i put them in my safe when i get home so i have a lot of them floating around my guns
 
Another place to check locally, would be a craft supply house.

It is usewd to dry flowers and such for preservation.
 
Walmart shoe dept. Every shoebox has several packets in it and they will give them to you.
 
Get a large bag of white rice. Fill a few old cotton socks with it. Bake it in a PREHEATED oven at the very lowest setting for about 20 minutes. (Watch the oven light and check often to make sure you're not browning the socks.)

Put these dry rice-filled socks inside your gun safe and Pachmyr gun boxes. Every couple of months take them out and put them back into the oven for awhile. Very inexpensive (cheap!) and works great as an adjunct to the usual gun oils! ;)
 
Wal-Mart definitely carries it, just not in the shooting section. If you look in the "laundry" section (where hangers and ironing boards are), they sell containers designed to keep moisture out of closets. Thats what I have been using. The container is good for 60 or 90 days and is about 4 bucks. Has an indicator and all. I'm sure thats more expensive than some places online, but I dont want to buy in bulk, so I'll spend my 4 bucks every 2 or 3 months.
 
Damprid is available at most supermarkets and department stores.

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http://www.damprid.dsiwebbuilder.com/index.asp?cat=176180

Keep in mind that 45-50% humidity is optimal for gun lockers. You should invest in a inexpensive hygrometer to measure humidity. According to the NRA: 50% humidity at 70 degrees is considered ideal "Arms Museum" storage conditions.
 
I've been using 100% silica cat litter for years. Cheap and available in numerous stores.
 
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desiccant

'desiccant' is the correct spelling.

Find some old drywall. Remove the paper and crumble the chalky substance. Put it in the oven at low heat on a cookie sheet (or a metal container) at 300 degrees for an hour or two to dry it out and then put it in a container that has some holes in the top.

This differs from commercial desiccant in that there is no indicator chemical added to the material to let you know when it's time to "cook" it again. Of course, even if you get the stuff with the indicator chemical, the color change effect wears off after several "cooking" cycles. If you get yourself a meter to let you know the humidity level in your safe you'll know when you need to recharge it.
 
It's calcium chloride and it sucks water out of the air.
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I believe I'd rather take my chances with moisture then to get calcium chloride anywhere near to my guns.

We used it mixed with water to add wheel weight in tractor tires, and it would rust the chrome off a trailer hitch ball in about 5 minutes if you got on anything metal!

rcmodel
 
:eek: Well, this is a first! A conversation about spelling like this would never occur over at GT. Instead all sorts of, 'Spelling Nazi' pictures will suddenly begin to appear! :rolleyes:

Sometimes I get sick and tired of these kids who so willfully take it upon themselves to let you know that your, 'old fashioned' use of proper syntax and correct grammar is rocking their modern, 'loose format and open punctuation' world. (u no wad I meen?) :p

Yeah, it's desiccant
 
Heh heh... Ordinarily, I are a relly gud spellr. So good, in fact, that my cockiness made me 100% sure about this one. This was further reinforced when I looked it up on McMaster, using my incorrect spelling, and they had anticipated dummies like me and made it STILL lead to the product. I just didn't notice the different (correct) spelling.

And then, when it didn't show up on dictionary.com with my incorrect spelling, I was so arrogant as to assume "Well, it must not be there because it's a technical term".

Geez, I am embarrassed.

But I do agree on the sad state of affairs these days with regard to written communications. Punctuation, grammar, syntax, capitalization, etc. It's really not that much more difficult to do it correctly.
 
I confess I had to look it up. My tendency is to double both the 's' and the 'c'.
 
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