For those of us with barely enough ammo for some back up magazines, we envy you guys complaining about having so much ammo that you can’t move it around.
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Oh brother, I hear you, I’m one of you lol. I just happened across a couple thousand rounds of 9mm, but most of it has since gone. Even when stacked while in the boxes, it’s heavier than a 5 gallon jug of water while being less than half the volume, lol. Lead is dense…
The Persian poet Sa’di
“I cried because I had no ammo until I saw a man who had no gun”
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I cried when I stepped on a Lego. 
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I see your Lego, and raise you a UK standard plug.
You guys would be less likely to step on things if you had more light at home.
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That’s almost as sad as having a flashlight but no batteries…
Plenty of light. I just do it purposely.
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It’s good to have a hobby.
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I figured you get plenty of experience stepping on painful things trying to keep from stepping or tripping on 4 cats.
Getting back to sanding the paint off an ammo carrier that’s older than I am, the bare metal is going to start to rust down in the humid basement unless something like dielectric grease is used to cover the bare metal. But no one seems to worry about how the rust would effect the conductivity or mention using dielectric grease, what am I missing here?
Super high polish, or solder blobs lol
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Another thing I’ve done is to put a thin bead of silicone caulking around the periphery edge of the lid but not where it would interfere with the contact, and store a bunch of silica gel packs in there
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Possibly use galvanized or aluminum boxes. Stalwart company makes various vault and safe deposit boxes without weatherproofing seals. Several sizes can often be found on Amazon relatively cheaply
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Dielectric mean non-conductive. " * Seals, protects and insulates electrical connections". Which would defeat the purpose of removing the paint to get a good electrical connection. Not sure how to deal with the corrosion problem …Other than doing regular maintenance to make sure the mating surfaces stay corrosion free.
BTW, I see several places that recommend using Stainless Steel wool instead of AL foil for the gasket!
I’ve personally never had trouble protecting electrical contacts with dielectric grease–it’s soft enough to be easily pushed aside and displaced to make room for electrical contact. Thus electrical contacts are maintained, while non-contact surfaces receive the expelled grease and are protected from corrosion.
I also have not had issues. I use dielectric lube on non-anodized threads on flashlights all of the time. But I am not sure about this application. I guess the only way to know for sure would be to take measurements with and without the grease in place. I think there will be higher resistance with the grease, even though there may be some continuity. I am still doing some reading about EMP protection. But I think the highest level of continuity…least resistance, even at the micro ohm level, would be the best for this application.
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I see, perhaps the issue is uniformity. A flashlight needs just one good contact point to function, while a faraday cage requires the contact to be uniformly good along the boundary. I imagine that this would be quite difficult to measure–the multimeter can detect continuity, but not the exact shape and area of the contact surface.
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Yes a continuous seal. You are right. the meter would not tell you this. Maybe a transmitter on the inside and signal strength meter outside… But then the questions of source signal level and frequency comes into play. This is getting complicated.
This is an interesting read. We are talking about possibly 10 of thousands of volts at frequencies from almost DC to over a gigahertz.
The REAL question here is…
Do the Ammo cans run on AA or AAA???
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