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<blockquote data-quote="Werewolf" data-source="post: 1612770" data-attributes="member: 239"><p>Vac pack is going to only be partially effective.</p><p></p><p>Do this:</p><p></p><p>1. Clean lube gun normally</p><p>2. place in Vac pac bag with dessicant</p><p>3. Seal vac pack bag</p><p>4. Wrap vac pack tightly with aluminum foil (plastic allows air to pass at the molecular level - aluminum foil does not).</p><p>5. Vac pac the foil wrapped package</p><p>6. Store per preference.</p><p></p><p>The above is very very similar to the way electronic equipment was packaged when I served in the Navy. I remember one time while at sea we had to replace a radar repeater unit that was totally dead and not repairable. We did an underway transfer of a new unit off a replenishment ship in less than glassy seas. At one point we rolled to starboard and the replinishment ship rolled to port. The radar repeater on its pallet got dunked. Once it was aboard and moved to the space where it was to be installed we undid the packaging and it was dry as a bone. The way the thing was packaged it could have gone to the bottom of the sea and found a million years later by some archeologist and I bet it would be pristine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Werewolf, post: 1612770, member: 239"] Vac pack is going to only be partially effective. Do this: 1. Clean lube gun normally 2. place in Vac pac bag with dessicant 3. Seal vac pack bag 4. Wrap vac pack tightly with aluminum foil (plastic allows air to pass at the molecular level - aluminum foil does not). 5. Vac pac the foil wrapped package 6. Store per preference. The above is very very similar to the way electronic equipment was packaged when I served in the Navy. I remember one time while at sea we had to replace a radar repeater unit that was totally dead and not repairable. We did an underway transfer of a new unit off a replenishment ship in less than glassy seas. At one point we rolled to starboard and the replinishment ship rolled to port. The radar repeater on its pallet got dunked. Once it was aboard and moved to the space where it was to be installed we undid the packaging and it was dry as a bone. The way the thing was packaged it could have gone to the bottom of the sea and found a million years later by some archeologist and I bet it would be pristine. [/QUOTE]
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