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    Default Gun safe, anybody using one?

    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.

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    Was your significant other cool with the cost of the purchase?

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    Yes she was pretty cool about it, I've talked about it for a few years now with her.

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    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.


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    All I use my gun safe for is to keep my Zapper and Super Scope in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sweater Fish Deluxe View Post
    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?

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    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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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phosphor Dot Fossils View Post
    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.


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    skaar, good point. I got mine thinking theft over fire. I checked the price for a data safe, very expensive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sweater Fish Deluxe View Post
    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.


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    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"?
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    No safe here. I have insurance.

    I also have a SMB/Duck Hunt cart that was shot with a 9MM. Still works.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by malk View Post
    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

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    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.

    Quote Originally Posted by skaar View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gapporin View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skaar View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    I can't afford a gun safe for my guns, let alone my games.

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    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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