A Good Tip For Metal Tool Storage

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I know I have a problem around here with all the rain all Winter and Spring.

Massive humidity. Some tools that I very rarely use and even some black oxide coated Snap On sockets have turned up rusty. I’m going to find some of this stuff.

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12 thoughts on “A Good Tip For Metal Tool Storage”

  1. I’ll have to look into that for the tools I have in my barn and basement. The stuff not in cabinets gets an occasional wipe with Ballistol or Boeshield but the camphor tablets seem nice for the sockets etc.

    Wonder what it does to plastic and the rubber of power cords

  2. Any idea on that for a gun safe? I generally throw a few bags of the same type of desiccant you find in pill bottles, only bigger. You gotta replace them every so often, but pretty cheap so no big deal.

    My biggest issue with rust on tools is my wife leaving them outside in the yard. The training continues with her, but I don’t hold out much hope.

    • Don,you can dry them in the sun on a good day in a baking pan.

      There is a kitty litter for sale that is just desiccant,those cloth bags for bottles of booze with draw string filled up work great!

  5. I have a block of camphor in every drawer, as all my tools are stored in the motorcycle trailer.

  6. In the “rain-forest” conditions of northwest Alabama, moisture is always an enemy of bare metal. A few years ago my wife sat a box of pool shock that had never been opened on a shelf near a box that contained a variety of magazines for various guns in the garage. I didn’t discover this until the springtime. You guessed it. Anything made of metal that was remotely near the shock (even though it was in small packets inside an unopened cardboard box), including my magazines, had a nice coating of rust on it. Besides the general wiping with an oil coated rag for tools and boxes, make sure to store corrosive materials in a remote/food grade container.

  8. Flood has a product named Penetrol that will protect metal from rust for up to a year. I think it was developed for the Department of Defense back in the 70’s so they could spray a coat on metal and leave it in the weather.

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