How many of you live in HUMID states? How do you keep your 'paper weights' from rusting?

[tank_monkey]

Or anything metal.

Do you slather oil and grease on items? or do you put them in dehumidified special safes or vaults? Or do you just NOT CARE and it's not as bad as I fear?

I'm thinking specifically of Texas, Georgia, or Florida. Believe it or not, Hawaii isn't as humid as most people think. The ocean breeze blows all the time, and it is high but not that high. Even though, if you live by the water, it's the salt sea air that destroys metal things. Friends I know in Hawaii keep their stuff in cloth socks in safes with electric dehumidifiers. My buddies in Arizona and Nevada don't worry that much at all.

Any of you guys wage a constant battle against humidity?

[alismith]

I'm surrounded by water (ocean is about 25 miles east, bay is about 15 miles south and another bay is about 35 miles west) plus a tidal river 4 miles away and my housing development is surrounded on 3 sides by a creek and swamp. Fairly humid here, especially in the summer.

I have a rechargeable humidifier in my safe but, I found out that if you keep the guns in an area with stable temps. you really don't have to worry about rusting. I wipe mine down with an oil cloth about twice a year. No problems....

[Oswald Bastable]

Eezox.

[tank_monkey]

Eezox.

never used this before! SOUNDS great! how do you like it?

[NAPOTS]

Look to the rock gods for the solution to your troubles.

[Oswald Bastable]

I love it! Everything they say it is.

What sold me was an experiment they did. They mounted a bunch of galvanized nails, each one covered in a different gun oil / protectant. They were placed in the sun and spritzed with salt water at least once each day. At the end of the test (don't recall if it was a month or more) they compared them. The Eezox one was the only nail with no rust on it.

[alismith]

Where do they sell Eexox? I've never heard of it.