I live in GA, leave my safe door open a lot of the time, and have never had a gun rust in the safe. I think rusting guns are overstated and Golden Rods way over valued.
Heat drives moisture out of wood. The moisture content inside a house is pretty low to begin with, but heat is the enemy. If a golden rod is warm, it can cause a problem, IMO. Not with your steel, but with your wood. Especially in a closed area, like a safe.
Back when I was working with wood that required a low MC, I spoke with the head of the UGA school that deals with such. He said the MC of wood (maple blocks for test purposes) treated (with poly) and untreated all came to the same level of MC after a year in an unheated but dry environment. Moisture molecules are so small they will penetrate any finish. This level was the ambient MC of the air, which inside a structure is much lower than the outside.
Any time you have dew on your lawn, the MC has reached 100%. But you don't get dew inside a shed. Lower MC.
Last edited by Genelang; 04/28/11 02:15 PM.
