Ridgers
Proactive member
Could anyone tell me of their experience using VCI paper to line their boxes. I use silica gel packets. Any other recomendations ?
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VCI paper for pistol boxes
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Lawrie A
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I use Renaissance Wax to protect the metalwork on my guns, it is good for wood and other materials, museums use it to protect armour and iron weapons from rust, so no better recommendation necessary. I do also use VCI paper in some of my boxed guns.
Cheers, Lawrie.
I'm neither a collector of pistols or more specifically, their boxes, but a few of the old pistols I've bought, came boxed. I use both corrosion inhibiting paper (from Amazon) and little silica gel packets (free....courtesy of some of the packaging my meds. come in!) in mine. Only 3 of my pistols reside in their boxes, the rest are in slips/pouches, again with come silica gel for company!
Same here....
Not in a pistol box but for engine parts . When i worked in the engine recon's place we had parts come in wrapped in VCI paper and they would often sit on the shelves for a long time and in some case more than 20 years and they were only wrapped in the VCI paper and in a cardboard box .
Over Christmas if we were off we would come back into the workshop and find fine rust on the tools and other uncovered items due to the temp changes and there being no heating on for a week or more .
None of the items wrapped in VCI paper were affected .
I got a few sheets of it from the liners we fitted to engines and stuck them in my gun cabinet . I just put them on the floor of the cabinet . I was going to stick them on the sides and back but never did . I don’t have temp changes in the house that may cause it but i put them in there anyway.
Over Christmas if we were off we would come back into the workshop and find fine rust on the tools and other uncovered items due to the temp changes and there being no heating on for a week or more .
None of the items wrapped in VCI paper were affected .
I got a few sheets of it from the liners we fitted to engines and stuck them in my gun cabinet . I just put them on the floor of the cabinet . I was going to stick them on the sides and back but never did . I don’t have temp changes in the house that may cause it but i put them in there anyway.
Stup
Super member
I'm a mechanic by trade and that's exactly where I get all my vci paper from for free when parts come in to line all my boxes
Its a great source for it . I used to throw loads of it out and now wished i had kept more . It was large sheets of it due to the bore liners we fitted in blocks like the porous blocks in old Ford tractors . Bore them out and fit a liner .
I need to check the local garage and see if they have any or if they can keep some by for me .
Off topic . Valve stem seals.
You could use them as baffles for a custom moderator . Some of the garages we did work for would give us loads of them as many did not use them from the gasket sets .
The ones with the valve spring lands on them would be ideal and some springs to space them .Remove the rubber seal and small spring unless you could fit a pellet through them .
I tried making a Moderator one day when we were not busy but I gave up with it .
Ridgers
Proactive member
I also use Renaissance Wax but after reading yours and other comments I think I will start using VCI paper too.