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Valued Member
Canada
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Do you use silica gels when storaging coins?
If you do, what size do you use? Where I can get them for a fair price? I have a 40Gram silica gels, which need to be recharged every 5 days. Is it too small?
Thanks!
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Valued Member
United States
171 Posts |
unless you are in the SW I WILL say yes.
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Valued Member
United States
314 Posts |
I firmly believe in using silica. Keeping moisture away from your collection is critical. I like jpscorner for supplies. I have the 3x5 inch silica packs for coins in smaller boxes, You don't have to recharge them all that often. They carry the much larger sizes as well, that cover 33 cubic feet. The larger sizes are perfect for the inside of a large safe.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19931 Posts |
I use them a lot for long-term storage. No need to recharge them if you really bag and seal everything well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
508 Posts |
I get packages of these from work all the time. I keep a handful of packets inside all the boxes I store my coins in.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
The real key is to create a micro-environment where you can remove the moisture from the air, and then that air does not exchange with the outside air. That way no outside moisture can come in. If you do that the gel does not need to be recharged for a long long time. The easiest way to do this is to use storage boxes that have tight sealing lids. You put the coins in the box, add a freshly recharged silica pack, and seal the lid. If you use safe deposit boxes, gallon size zip lock bags work well. Put coins, albums etc in bag, add silica pack, squeeze most of the air out and seal. Then place in SDB. That silica pack will be good for a decade.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This really depends on where you live, how you live, what and how you store your coins. By this I mean if you live in an area of high humidity, leave doors and windows open, those gell packs may help. For me I live in a house with a basement. I have tried in the past all kinds of those gel packs. Once I had 12 large ones hanging all over the place. I keep a hygrometer in several locations around the house. With all those gel packs I could not get the humidity down below 40% in the basement. I then purchased an electrical dehumidifier and plugged it in. Auto on, drain line to a drain in the floor and turned it on. In one day the humidity dropped to 25% to 28% all over the basement, during the hotest, most humid days in the area. It is now on all year long.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
I use my vacuum packer for long term storage..works like a charm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
10045 Posts |
I live in a humid, marine climate (often 90% humidity). As others suggest, I silca gel w/ziplocs, then everything goes into airtight containers.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Posted Yesterday 7:33 pm
I use my vacuum packer for long term storage..works like a charm
I've been wondering about those. Seen them on TV and appears to really work. But as you mentioned, for long term storage. Not sure how those would work if you wanted to open, close an Album constantly. Of course for us that keep them in a safe deposit box at a bank, that too keeps viewing to a limit. |
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Posted 01/19/2011 06:45 am
