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Double Trouble
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: North of Pittsburgh
Posts: 11,707
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I recently had to do a reburbishing bid on 30 guns that were in a home fire and in a safe. Although they were not cooked per se smoke did get in some how maybe from the heat cooking the carpeting inside. I made an interesting observation though. The guns that were just in the safe and not in sleeves or soft cases were all rusted from the smoke. No real wood damage which surprised me,. Smoke has a lot of moisture in it and I'm sure the carpeting inside created some pretty acrid smoke.. All of them needed to be reblued and some of the pitting was deep. However the ones that were in soft cases and silicone treated sleeves were just fine, some smoke residue but no damage at all. I now have all my guns in soft cases inside my safe.
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