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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimg1au on November 08, 2012, 09:09:54 pm
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need to store my bike stuff for about 3 months or more
have heard stuff inside containers rust anyone use one and any problems with them
jim
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Jim,
I have had a 40 ft container for a couple of years now. Everything has stayed really dry with no signs of any surface rust. I would highly recommend a good quality one for your storage.
Stan.
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If it's only for 3 months Jim it won't be a problem.
They do sweat if there's no ventilation.
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If you really want to keep the moisture out hang half a dozen large desiccant packs from the walls of the container..
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give anything you want to stop rusting a good squirt of wd40 as that stuff was developed for the us navy to stop the guns on the ships from rusting,its good for arching joints too and wont hurt your skin as its got veggie oil in it ;)
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And fit a "Whirly gig" ventilator to the roof ;)
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A few years ago the late Stan Rose sold his business and decided to go on the big round Australia retirement trip. He and his wife sold their home, bought a Winnebago and purchased a shipping container to store his race and collector bikes for the year or two the trip would take. The idea was good but he made a couple of big blues......Worried about theft, had Stan welded the doors shut and unfortunately didn't consider fitting a ventilation "whirly gig".
Cut to two years later and Stan and his wife are back from their adventure. Out comes the grinder and the door of the container opened to reveal a veritible horror show. Thick green moss had grown over all of the bikes and some bikes even had mushroom like 'plants' growing from them. Once removed the damage to the bikes was even more obvious, it was if they'd been on the bottom of Sydney Harbour for the two years, they were almost all totally rooted with rust, aluminium corrosion and the previously mentioned carpet of mossy stuff all over them. Even moving the bikes was difficult as many of the wheel bearings and chains had rusted solid. For all intended purposes the bikes were pretty much beyond help bar major ground up restorations. Amongst the written off bikes were.....a classic Douglas, a Rickman 900 Honda CR, a recently restored Rickman Montesa, his Honda CB72 and CB77 road racers, a Z900 Kawasaki and more.
If Stan had given some thought to ventilation these classic bikes would have survived almost unaffected.
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out hang half a dozen large desiccant packs from the walls of the container..
http://www.absorbopak.com/
Interesting read :)
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That is a sad story mark, thats when you need mates to remind people like that, Years ago I had the pleasure to have a look at Johns bowls shed and it was an eye opener, but sitting out side in the weather was a bultaco Pursang , and I said to John you need to grease up the chrome on those forks or spray wd40 on the forks and get that bike insided, when I bumped into john down the track I said to him, is that bully inside or shed out of the weather, the answer was yes. Thank god, its a real shame to see bikes that are in good restorable condition out side rusting away.
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Jim
Have the container off the ground, must be a steel floor, at least one but better with two lower vents (vermin proofed) and one wirrly gig at the top. Make sure the air can get around soft storage (seats vinyl and foams etc) and make sure the water does not pool on the roof so put some slight angle to allow to drain.
I have two 40' for storage of construction materials (over 10years) and have no problems, even with cement bags.
Good luck
Peter B