Will those green ammoboxes keep my motors dry?

If they have a rubber seal, and the seal is in good shape, yes.

Probably.

If they become immersed completely or tipped on their sides in water, there's still a chance that water will infiltrate the box.

If I was in that situation and couldn't take them with me, I would stick them in ziploc bags first, then put them in the ammo boxes, tape the lids down with strapping tape if they're not equipped with locks, then stick them in a high place (but not on a top floor, obviously).

Use zip lock bags - the bags with the sliding zipper not the bags that you press the sides together. An example is Hefty One Zip. Those bags kept my motors dry when my basement flooded several years ago. Motors in other types of plastic bags didn't stay dry. Double bagging is good. Then store in the ammo box, or other water tight box, which will protect the plastic bags.

Dean

And if you really want to be paranoid you could put the motors in ziplocks, inside the ammo box, and put THAT inside a plastic garbage (or two).

Alternatively you could dr> Andy Eng wrote:

"Andy Eng" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

I used an ammo box to store my SLR in on a canoe trip,and sure enough,the lady managed to upset the canoe(grabbed a low tree branch in a fast moving stream),but the SLR stayed dry. It floats,too.(I also had it tied to the canoe,though)

An ammo box with a good runnber seal will work fine. I've had ammo boxes where I had to use a screw driver to pry it open because the pressure was lower insde the box than outside. When it opend, I could hear it sucking air in.

The other ideas of using zip lock bags also seem good. And of course there's duct tape.

It kept my motors dry after a sewage leak in the basement. Granted, it's no Cat3+ hurricane but I was impressed.

Ted Novak TRA#5512 IEAS#75

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Good luck! Post back to rmr and let us know you're ok.

Randy

Yikes! Good luck, Andy! ,

Mmmm.....love those runnber seals. Must be new military technology.

Oh, that sucking sound was the air filling the vacuum between your ears.

Poor Phil

I've already seen Rita come and go. Work has me in SW Florida this week, and we got rainstorms yesterday as it passed through the Keys...

My thoughts are with all my rocket friends in the Houston area...

If the seals are in good shape, yes they should. Canoers and boaters use them to keep their gear dry.

tdstr wrote in news:11j340cmn5sm02 @corp.supernews.com:

Ewwww. Were these "skidmark" motors?

They are now. ;)

=86

Nope. Like I said, the motors were dry!

Ted Novak TRA#5512 IEAS#75

They weren't at first. :)

What's the matter Steve? Don't have the balls to sign your name? Does the State of NJ know that you are posting crap like this while leeching off the hard working taxpayers? Maybe they would like to know.

I imagine it will unload it's cargo of Dhydrogen Monoxide.

Head for the hills.

-Fred Shecter NAR 20117

Sure. When I post, which is not often these days.

You got something you want to tell the State of NJ, be my guest. I'll even give you the Attorney General's phone number.

Does Tim VanMilligan know that you were the one who was trying to rip off Rock Sim ?

Yeah, that's right where our son and his family live. They just moved there in July. They've been told to stock up on water and supplies and that there will probably be no power or phones for a while.