Best Cache Storage

[bigpaul]

(16 January 2012, 14:20)Skean Dhude Wrote: Guys, Enough of your personal sexual preferences please. The porn site isn't up yet.

why not? bit lax of you, old bean

[Reality Jones]

(16 January 2012, 13:40)Scythe13 Wrote: Nice one, thank you NR. I was about to ask you what you meant.

I lived in the Cook Islands for 5 weeks.

Ha ha, I spent some time there back in 2000. I was only suppposed to be passing through and ended up staying there for weeks.

[Scythe13]

(16 January 2012, 14:32)Reality Jones Wrote: Ha ha, I spent some time there back in 2000. I was only suppposed to be passing through and ended up staying there for weeks.

Where abouts? I was in a small island off Aitutaki, called Motaraku (I think that's how it's spelt). PM me about it.

We've got to find a way to get this thread back on track. Even though the question is kind of answered.

[NorthernRaider]

Remember sods law, if it can soak up moisture, rust or rot it will within 5 minutes of you putting it away, never assume a water proof container is water proof, treat it as water resistant, double bag in ziplock bags anything perishable, dont assume Laminating docs protects them fully it doesnt I lost 70 bloody maps and a lot of money with that mistake. A screw top with o ring seal will stop rain water and moisture BUT buried if water builds up onto the seal it WILL get through, so silicone grease the seal, silicone sealant the cap when its tight. Water also is a git for getting passed solvent welded joints so solvent weld, silicone seal and tape cache tubes.

Bag everything, erven the already bagged kit into a big bag before you put it into your cache tube or drum.

You dont always have to bury caches either, sometime lateral thinking is better. Example at my last house and since adopted by a few mates we simply got a full length of drain vent pipe of the time you see outside every house to let sewer fumes escape. We then filled the tube full of gear in sealed bags, stood it against the house and fastened it to the wall the same way as your drain pipes from the gutter are. It looked just like another downpipe.,

[00111001]

I'm not a big fan of caches. The thought of burrying or stashing my gear somewhere away from home, i.e public land etc brings me out in a cold sweat. With the rate they chuck houses up now you'd only have to leave it for a week or two an there could be a 3 bed semi there.

I did consider it when I lived near woodland in high wycombe, but then the local terrorists were uaing the same woods to stash their japati pipe bombs. Coud have been awkward, bumping into jihadis in the middle of the woods, all of us carrying things we'd rather not get caught with.

I suppose you could bury/stash the cache on your own property, but then if your house is overrun then you're in the same position as if it was in the house.

Maybe a self storage lock up would be best?

[NorthernRaider]

ah y'see your not thinking laterally enough, If you dont like the idea of burrying a cache , then dont, hide it someplace else, like your office at work, in a locker at a bus or rail station, hire a space in a U-store 24 hour access storage facility, leave it at a relatives etc etc.

[00111001]

ah, ok. Thats more like it. Time to invest in some storage somewhere I think. Obviously somewhere easily accessible should tshtf.

[Skean Dhude]

I'll never put my stash in a storage depot. These people will let Plod in when they want and you can be sure that in an event these places will be prime targets for looters.

There are plenty of places you can hide your stuff in your home or garden and you can look after it, you will know if a semi is being built and you can get to it easily after an event.

[Scythe13]

(16 January 2012, 22:12)NorthernRaider Wrote: hide it someplace else, like your office at work, in a locker at a bus or rail station

I've got to admit, I didn't know they still existed! Not after all the bomb alerts and all that, in Londonistan.

I was thinking about posting on here to see if anyone knew of any places that still had lockers.

[NorthernRaider]

Just keep your eyes open when travelling around your area and things will catch your eye, people hide caches under small garden ponds, up trees, in coal bunkers, in lockers at work, under desks,at relatives, in u-hire stores etc one was buried under a concreted in waste bin in a lake district car park, under garden sheds, behind false plasterboard walls, in a staff locker at a sports center etc etc