cbuttre835
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I have spent a couple nights reading various safe / RSC threads. The Texas wildfire thread really caught my eye.
Here is where I am: I don't have that extensive a collection; not enough to warrant a TL30x6 type safe. I do have a lot of sentimental stuff - mostly non-weapons related - pictures, pocketknives, newspaper clippings, a quilt or two - I'd like to preserve for posterity, in the event of a fire. And I do have a couple old guns I'd like to see preserved - like the $6 rifle that my dad's lone uncle bought him in exchange for a week's labor in a tobacco patch.
So with that said, a decent 10 gauge RSC with a mechanical lock, well hidden, is a start (for me). But sheet rock sucks and really only offers thermal mass - not insulation - and the poured-in-place stuff drives the cost of the container to the cost of my collection. Depending on bottles of water in the top to explode looks like a bad idea for pictures.
Anybody got any experience with adding in an aftermarket material?
Such as:
http://www.rsifibre.com/products/fireproof-insulation.php
various stone "wools" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_wool
You'd have a fairly decent box (10 gauge around sheetrock) to protect the typically more delicate material with a high R value... keep the innards cool.
Heat transfer experts chime in.... am I barkin up the wrong tree?
Here is where I am: I don't have that extensive a collection; not enough to warrant a TL30x6 type safe. I do have a lot of sentimental stuff - mostly non-weapons related - pictures, pocketknives, newspaper clippings, a quilt or two - I'd like to preserve for posterity, in the event of a fire. And I do have a couple old guns I'd like to see preserved - like the $6 rifle that my dad's lone uncle bought him in exchange for a week's labor in a tobacco patch.
So with that said, a decent 10 gauge RSC with a mechanical lock, well hidden, is a start (for me). But sheet rock sucks and really only offers thermal mass - not insulation - and the poured-in-place stuff drives the cost of the container to the cost of my collection. Depending on bottles of water in the top to explode looks like a bad idea for pictures.
Anybody got any experience with adding in an aftermarket material?
Such as:
http://www.rsifibre.com/products/fireproof-insulation.php
various stone "wools" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_wool
You'd have a fairly decent box (10 gauge around sheetrock) to protect the typically more delicate material with a high R value... keep the innards cool.
Heat transfer experts chime in.... am I barkin up the wrong tree?