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VCI anti-rust/corrosion

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VIS35	VCI anti-rust/corrosion	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3159 (04/10/09 11:37 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Have any site members used or had reports with VCI anti-rust/corrosion wrap/poly bags for storage? Does it effect finish or grip materials. I am interested in trying the wrap or bags for pistol storage. I would use with the Protecta-gun kraft boxes. Francis VIS aka Blind Hog "Even a Blind Hog sometimes finds an acorn"
zeebill		#1	[-]
Posts: 3555 (04/12/09 11:45 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	We used some of the stuff similar to their stuff at work very unsuccessfully. The system was never taught to the average mechanic who rummaged through things and left them askew and a mess and virtually compromised anything they could have done good. I talked at length to their representative at the PGCA show in Greensburg. It sounds like it would work but why spend extra money if RIG and Balistol and other oils are already employed and work. Bags get ripped if I look at them wrong and things are always being moved around so I doubt it would be very practical in use. Long term it might be an answer but I fire and clean and move and inspect daily in the summer and that just seems like a pain to me, plus more money for something else I may not need. Just an opinion and everyone will have one for sure. I would wager there are not too many of us who have used them though. Bill
VIS35		#2	[-]
Posts: 3165 (04/12/09 04:18 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Bill, Thank you for responding, I have used RIG for years upon years and it is good stuff. I am of course thinking long term storage, as I have a pile of pistols and most will never be fired, by me. I am planning a better way to store them in my safes by way of Protecta-gun kraft boxes, RIG'ing them and using perhaps coated paper for wrapping, kinda like the way S&W used to do way back when. Boxes would be very stackable and still accessible without a lot of effort. Thought the VCI bags or VCI wrap might be an alternative to the coated plain paper. Cost of the bags is not an issue as I have a friend that can get them for me cents to the bag. Opinions and how others do it are appreciated. Here's one I have done as an experiment. Francis VIS aka Blind Hog "Even a Blind Hog sometimes finds an acorn" Last Edited By: VIS35 04/12/09 04:55 PM. Edited 1 times.
zeebill		#3	[-]
Posts: 3558 (04/13/09 06:01 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Francis if you are looking at long term and not going to be checking them or showing them off to friends who visit or shooting them and your buddy can get a price break then they may be the answer. If you need occasional access to them the bags do not hold up and tend to get hard and brittle in time (which I meant to mention in previous post) and will not hold up. That coating makes the bag degrade faster than normal plastic and the ones we had tended to flake and be all over the place and not afford protection after awhile. We had spares in them and people just did not believe the labels and had to see them for themselves breaking the bags up and actually getting pieces of them into the small pumps and stuff making a cleanup of a new part necessary before installation. The best thing I have ever used in that manner is just plain oiled paper, things can be re-wrapped easily and that paper lasts forever. Look at a lot of pistols being shipped today and they still come wrapped in that too. I have also used these foam stick ups that are supposed to stop rust and they were totally useless and actually ended up getting into the works of equipment when they lost their sticking ability. Rig is a pain in the butt to use and remove but it works almost forever. Maybe I am just getting old and jaded I don't know but sometimes the older tried and true ways are the best to me. Signed the opinionated set in his ways old fart I guess! Hehe! Bill Last Edited By: zeebill 04/13/09 06:03 AM. Edited 1 times.
VIS35		#4	[-]
Posts: 3169 (04/13/09 01:12 PM) Forum Site Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Bill, Thanks, your real use experience is exactly what I had hoped the forum would provide and knew it would. I am going to stay with my RIG, it's never failed me, and use the paper and boxes. Thanks again to the OOF's of the forum, we are still of some use. Francis VIS aka Blind Hog "Even a Blind Hog sometimes finds an acorn"

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