View Full Version : Gun safe, anybody using one?
Nescollector
02-20-2007, 09:05 PM
I just purchased a Liberty gun safe (dang thing was a bear to get in the house) to put my sealed nes games/valuables in. I know that sound paranoid, but the games mean so much to me, plus just two to three of the game would recover the cost of the safe $580.00 Does anybody use one, or have considered using one.
Technosis
02-20-2007, 09:13 PM
Was your significant other cool with the cost of the purchase?
Nescollector
02-20-2007, 09:14 PM
Technosis
Yes she was pretty cool about it, I've talked about it for a few years now with her.
Sweater Fish Deluxe
02-20-2007, 09:17 PM
Yes, I use a gun safe. But I keep guns in mine. Lots of guns. Big guns. I shoot people with them. All the time.
...word is bondage...
Gapporin
02-20-2007, 09:19 PM
All I use my gun safe for is to keep my Zapper and Super Scope in it.
Phosphor Dot Fossils
02-20-2007, 09:23 PM
Yes, I use a gun safe. But I keep guns in mine. Lots of guns. Big guns. I shoot people with them. All the time.
Then I suppose it's a safe guess that nobody messes with your NES carts, yes?
50s Brawler
02-20-2007, 09:43 PM
I have a steel filing cabinet that can be locked in (3) places that's as safe as any gun safe ever made. Made in 194X? and made [so it would seem] to withstand an atomic blast, damn near unmovable.
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skaar
02-20-2007, 10:17 PM
If you are getting a firesafe, you want to make sure it's rated for data. Most "fire safes" are for documents only - they are rated to not get hot enough for paper to burn, but your discs/carts will be puddles by that point.
I get this question from clients all the time - many have backups kept in fire safes and aren't aware this doesn't protect for shit for CDs and tapes.
Something to think about anyway.
Sweater Fish Deluxe
02-20-2007, 10:42 PM
Then I suppose it's a safe guess that nobody messes with your NES carts, yes?
Eh, I shot up all my NES carts years ago.
...word is bondage...
Nescollector
02-20-2007, 10:46 PM
skaar, good point. I got mine thinking theft over fire. I checked the price for a data safe, very expensive.
Darth Sensei
02-21-2007, 07:55 AM
Yes, I use a gun safe. But I keep guns in mine. Lots of guns. Big guns. I shoot people with them. All the time.
...word is bondage...
I'm going to assume that you are kidding, otherwise you are a retard.
I'm a huge gun enthusiast myself, but as was mentioned before, I am saving up for a real safe to protect my guns in case of fire.
Anybody miss the old days when any discussion of guns on here might include the term "murder machines"? :p
FABombjoy
02-21-2007, 08:48 AM
No safe here. I have insurance.
I also have a SMB/Duck Hunt cart that was shot with a 9MM. Still works.
Long term storage is somethign i've been oppondering alot lately for my nes collection. I'm slowly working towards a complete set and after that need to find boxes and tiny pieces of foam for everything. Ugh...anyway, I was thinking some of those archival drawer (I lost the link but it was about 50 pages back in this forum.) kind of things maybe, gun/data safe seems like a good idea but far too expensive for me. When/if i get a NWC cart, its going straight to the vault in a bank in upstate NY.
JJNova
02-21-2007, 10:22 AM
I'm slowly working towards a complete set and after that need to find boxes and tiny pieces of foam for everything.
If you are looking for those little pieces of foam for the inside of NES boxes, the guy you need to talk to is CueWarrior. I got a box of them from him, and they work great. A+++ Seller. Would trade with again! And all that jazz.
Seriously though, he's got the goods, for a price ;)
EDIT: CueWarrior now goes by the name Darth Sensei, I think.
rbudrick
02-21-2007, 11:13 AM
I do have a small lockbox for protos, but it's a piece of shit and really only so I can keep them all in one place. I have thought about getting a good safe, though. When I get a house I'd ideally like to have a fucking vault, but whatever.
If you are getting a firesafe, you want to make sure it's rated for data. Most "fire safes" are for documents only - they are rated to not get hot enough for paper to burn, but your discs/carts will be puddles by that point.
I get this question from clients all the time - many have backups kept in fire safes and aren't aware this doesn't protect for shit for CDs and tapes.
Something to think about anyway.
Thanks for the tip, Skaar. Rated for data. Gotcha.
-Rob
theshizzle3000
02-21-2007, 01:26 PM
All I use my gun safe for is to keep my Zapper and Super Scope in it.
Yeah could you imagine someone holding up a store or chasing a deer with a Zapper it would be classic. I am sure if I did a youtube search it probably already exists though.
FABombjoy
02-21-2007, 01:30 PM
If you are getting a firesafe, you want to make sure it's rated for data.
I'm not sure if this will matter much, though. The value & collectibility is heavily influenced by condition. How much heat & for how long can, for example, a sealed NES game tolerate?
Video games are made with so many volitle compounds - the adhesives, variety of plastics, styrofoam, etc. - I don't know that they'd weather any high-heat well, even if they were in a better safe.
XYXZYZ
02-21-2007, 01:54 PM
Can't say I'd want one... a sealed NES or whatever isn't really useful to me if I'm going to keep it locked away where I can't see it.
NES_Rules
02-21-2007, 03:18 PM
I can't afford a gun safe for my guns, let alone my games.
pdpuck16
02-21-2007, 03:31 PM
Protecting from theft is one thing. But even if it doesn't burn in the safe the smells and smoke damage is going to kill any value in it. Had a fire my house in the fall and everything in the safe smells. Make sure your insurance coverage is good. We lucked out there.
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a Gun safe???
You Americans crack me up sometimes...it really is the land of cowboys.
coreycorey2000
02-21-2007, 07:24 PM
I use a safe for my most valuable stuff as well. I figure anything $500+ deserves to be in a safe. $5000+ deserves to be in a safety deposit box. I don't collect much in the way of sealed stuff. So all my sealed games are on display.
ProgrammingAce
02-21-2007, 09:14 PM
I've considered it, I have quite a few one of a kind discs and the last remaining copies of a few canceled games. Never actually bought one though.
I've thought about the insurance thing too, but since most of what I have are devkits and you're not "legally" supposed to have them, it'd be a bit tough.
Best I do now is keep a list of serial numbers stored at a friend's house. Won't really do me a whole lot of good though, since debug xboxes serial numbers aren't actually unique.
Push Upstairs
02-21-2007, 10:36 PM
a Gun safe???
You Americans crack me up sometimes...it really is the land of cowboys.
No thats Texas...but you can carry a concealed weapon there so I don't know why you'd need a gun safe.
Unless you collect rare guns or something.
rbudrick
02-22-2007, 10:35 AM
a Gun safe???
You Americans crack me up sometimes...it really is the land of cowboys.
You Mac users crack me up. ;)
No thats Texas...but you can carry a concealed weapon there so I don't know why you'd need a gun safe.
Unless you collect rare guns or something.
Most people that own guns (well, rifles, most especially...not necessarily handguns, since those are easier to hide) keep them in a locked cabinet or safe. If you are ever robbed, the first thing people take if in plain site are the guns.
And that ain't just Texas. It's everywhere where there's crime.
-Rob
qbertandernie
02-22-2007, 12:42 PM
friend of my brothers lives in an old bank building, and his office is the bank safe, complete with the heavy ass door. i always thought that would be an awesome game room.
skaar
02-22-2007, 12:53 PM
I'm not sure if this will matter much, though. The value & collectibility is heavily influenced by condition. How much heat & for how long can, for example, a sealed NES game tolerate?
Video games are made with so many volitle compounds - the adhesives, variety of plastics, styrofoam, etc. - I don't know that they'd weather any high-heat well, even if they were in a better safe.
The goal of a data safe is to keep the temperature at the center of the safe as low as possible - I believe it's all wood insulation coated in some kind of chemicals. Granted you're probably not going to have your goods untouched by a fire but at least they won't be too badly affected.
I've been there while we dug a fire safe out with a bulldozer once, the contents were untouched. A bunch of CDs, data tapes and a twinkie. (I had put the twinkie in there as a joke two years prior)
The door had to be opened with a torch and a crowbar.
Yes, I ate the twinkie when we got it out ;)
FABombjoy
02-22-2007, 02:15 PM
Well I mean, I know what a data safe is for, but the intent is that the data is more important than the medium. Whereas, the integrety of the data does not necessarily correlate to the value of a video game - the $200 difference between a CIB Stack Up -vs- a loose Stack Up is unrelated to the functioning of it's ROMs. For most games, the data is the easy & near valueless part to replace.
For me, an adequate insurance plan trumps all. I wouldn't want to deal with a colossal safe, and a small safe or fire box just puts all your valuable stuff in one convenient place for a thief. Statistically, losses from theft are far more likely than fire.
I do honestly think it would look cool though to have a big safe for my valuables, but I just wouldnt' want to put in the effort :)
c0ldb33r
02-22-2007, 05:15 PM
Most people that own guns (well, rifles, most especially...not necessarily handguns, since those are easier to hide) keep them in a locked cabinet or safe. If you are ever robbed, the first thing people take if in plain site are the guns.
Not only are gun safes good for this, they'll also keep your kids away from your guns!
(Not that I have a gun, but if I did, I'd keep it in a safe)