Gun safe odor

[kelbro]

Not sure of the origin of your safe but the Chinese use formaldehyde in a lot of their adhesives. The smell seemingly never dissipates.

 

[Tozguy]

Simple Green removes every odor on the planet I think.

It might well do that, but, it won't remove what is causing the smell.

Agree with finding the cause. Many cheap plastics smell like the dickens. I would strip the liners, rugs, and plastic parts until the cause is found.

 

[DennisH]

WOW, I was just getting ready to buy a safe, now I am undecided again.

What is the best safe to go with. I was looking at a Liberty. Are they made in China?

Help me out with my best choice, or procedure to keep it free of mold.

Thanks for your help,

Dennis

 

[DeltaBravo]

Dennis,

The lower end Liberties are/may be made in China. The higher end ones are USA. I have the FatBoy64 and it's great. Got it at Gander Mtn for a great price, delivered to my garage for free. I'm finding out that the desicants are useless in this thing. I had three of them in there and the humidity was over 50% - with only the PEET and a golden rod, it's at 35%.

Dennis

 

[JRS]

The compact safes sold by Liberty are made in China and Korea. Their gun safes are made here in the U.S.

 

[DennisH]

The FatBoy 64 is the one I am looking for, so I should be safe.

Dennis

 

[Clint M]

I worked at a plant that stored machines oiled down well, and oil bath setting in cabinets. They would add a carpet material to the shelves, the oil would get on the carpet, even wood etc and I assume the oil turned rancid giving off a putrid horrid odor. If it were my safe I would remove everything, and steam clean it, then leave it open for several days.

 

[Nvreloader]

This may be a mute point,
I had the same thing in my gun safe,
It had been moved into the shop untill the new floor in MY room, from the remodel was finished.

My safe has a 3/4" diameter hole about 1/2" from the floor level, unloaded all my gems out of the safe,
moved it into my room, reloaded all the gems back inside and locked it up.

About a week later,
open the door and about fell over, something "Dead SMELL" was over powering, coming from the inside,
unloaded every thing again and checked every thing/where etc.
Couldn't find the source, finally got the bottom floor section pried loose from the floor of the safe,
this floor piece had a spacer about 1" high, that covered the hole on the back side of the safe.

A couple of mice decided this was a new secure cozy place to set up housekeeping and home,
and when I moved the safe back, I slid the safe tightly up against the back wall,
then lag bolted the safe to the wall studs, BLOCKING their front door hole,
they met a untimely death,
along with the smell of that couple of mice dying, that It produced etc.

Did you lift/take out the bottom floor part?

I swear that the smell of Hoppe's#9 gun oil draws them,
this is the second time that those 4 legged hair balls have been in the safe.

Tia,
Don

 

[BlueMoon]

Glad I bought a Made in USA safe.

 

[Macropod]

When I open my safe the faint aroma of Hoppe's, gun oil and nice timber puts a smile on my face.


I kind of like the smell of my workshop too. Something about cutting fluids and way oils make me smile when I walk inside. I'm sure my wife doesn't understand this.

 

[Joe Salt]

Was thinking of buying another safe, went to Gander Mountain looking at the liberty's and when I opened a couple all I could smell was this rotten stench coming from inside. Think I'll say with Browning! Deffinetly had to come from China!

Joe Salt