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Safe owners - A couple questions for you

MaaloxMaalox Member Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭
edited May 2007 in Ask the Experts
I have had a safe for a couple years now and have a couple questions for you. I have included a couple pics of the inside so you can see the situation I have.

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1) What type of lighting do you have in your safe? You can see in one of the pics that I have a small battery operated "Closet light". The dealer I purchased mine from had a nice kit at a recent show. It has 5 thin self stick florescent lights and a door operated on-off switch. Very nice, but it is over $200. Any do-it your self suggestions out there?

2) I used to lay the pistols out on a shelf. To save space I purchased a pistol rack that hold six pistols. This opened up space on the shelf but now I have a number of magazines that still clutter the same shelf. Any storage ideas for the semi-auto pistol magazines. I have a couple Glocks and XDs in similar calibers so separating them would be nice for easy identification.

3) How do you store your wife's stuff in your safe? Jewelry, ipods, cameras... I have been trying to find a storage tray of some type for these items but have not located one yet. It was all good until she placed here camera on top of my titanium coated P99 and put a scratch in the coating.[:(]

Thanks for your help
Regards, MAALOX
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  • tsavo303tsavo303 Member Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a browning about the same size, I have to use a flashlight[8)]I could use some lighting also.
    I bought some nice handgun racks, that point the muzzle up, they dont work (barrels longer than 4" hit the top)[B)][:I]doh!
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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    Pictures?????
    I don't have a safe but have some ideas. Is your safe carpeted on the inside of the door? If so how about attaching the magazines to the door with velcro. Take a long strip and fasten it to the door leaving some loops to insert the mags into. or use a magnet to hold them to an uncarpeted door.

    There are all kinds of small florecent type lights available look around and see what will work. You may not get the convineince of a door operated switch but that may not matter.
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  • 25wcf25wcf Member Posts: 43 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a large safe, but my wife had so many small boxes and bags containing her jewelry and other treasures that it spread out over a whole shelf and she was always complaining about not being able to find what she was looking for. I bought her a couple of those double-sided fishing tackle boxes with the clear lids. They have plenty of compartments and take up about half the room on the shelf. Now she's happy. When Mama is happy, everybody is happy.
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    There are some sort of lights used in Marine applications.

    I tried to find them, but couldn't.

    They attach to the underside of your boat storage locker doors (The ones on the floor of bass boats), you open the door to get out gear, the light is there and you can turn it on. They use like 9V batteries or something like that.

    Seems like those would work great, but I can't find a link.
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
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  • andygoldandygold Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't have any answers to questions 1 & 2, but as to #3....from a liability and safety standpoint, noone but you should have access to your firearms. Scenario being that someone other than you has access to your safe, (example...wife getting her jewelry, ipod, camera, etc...) and not being as security conscious as you are, accidentally leaves it unlocked, or leaves it open for some period of time. Along comes one of the kids, and now you have a potential tragedy in the making. This is not some dreamt up scenario...I've been in law enforcement for close to 20 years and have first hand knowledge of these types of things happening. Not to be disrespectfull in any way... your wife by placing her camera on top of one of your guns, tends to make me think that she does not have the same concerns/respects for firearms as you do. My thought would be to buy her her own safe. Again, please understand, I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm just concerned.
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1) get the ammo out of there
    2) get the crap on the 2nd shelf out of there
    3) get a pistol rack that mounts on the back of the door.

    It's a GUN SAFE, not a junk storage locker. Only keep valuables and things that can not be replaced easly in there.
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  • big mangobig mango Member Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    HELLO FROM IRAQ AND THE OIF CAMPAIGN--

    HERES A LINK TO ALL THE MAJOR VAULT AND SAFE MANUF IN THE US AND OTHER PLACES.

    MAYBE ONE OF THEM HAS AN ANSWER TO YOUR PROBLEM !!!

    http://www.homeexpo.com/HE/s1003.htm
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    If your safe has a hole in the top (most do, to allow the Goldenrod dehumidifiers to be installed), your lighting system can be as glamorous as the $200 rig you saw, to a string of Christmas rope lights. Seriously. I use rope lights, and I can see very well into the hidden recesses, and each shelf has a string running side-to-side in the front and back.
    I mark my mags (why not? I'll never sell them!)with the cal.; and know which guns are what caliber and what size/shape is required. It appears your method is to stuff them in a corner and paw through them till you find the right one. A paint color on the grip and mag bottom would match up quickly and without much fuss. I store my knives on the doors and sides of the shelves in my safes, using the velcro on the sheaths to stick'em up.
    Definitely get all the crap that can be replaced, yet not turned against you (ipods, handbags, ammo boxes, etc.) out of there, and I noticed you didn't have a dessicant pack visible-weather been kinda dry lately?
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  • sig232sig232 Member Posts: 8,018
    edited November -1
    I agree that ammo should not be stored with the guns.

    In the event of a fire the ammo will go off and damage all your guns. I also have a Fort Knox safe and my local rep told me a story about a safe stored in a second floor bedroom.

    Following a fire that distroyed the house the only thing still standing was the fireplace and the safe, standing in the ashes of the fire. The safe was opened by an expert, since the fire had distroyed the electroic key pad, and the guns were fine except for the bullet tracks that had scratched up and damaged some of the guns. The gentleman who owned the safe has stored a few boxes of ammo with the safe.

    Fire will set off the primers!!!
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  • Bert H.Bert H. Member Posts: 11,281 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Tailgunner1954
    1) get the ammo out of there
    2) get the crap on the 2nd shelf out of there
    3) get a pistol rack that mounts on the back of the door.

    It's a GUN SAFE, not a junk storage locker. Only keep valuables and things that can not be replaced easly in there.


    +1 [:D]

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