I just received a second gun safe that i have to leave in my garage. i live in Florida so i have to install Golden Rod or similar dehumidifiers. My question is will the dehumidifier dry-out the walnut stocks on my Winchester Models 70 & 94, and Henry BigBoy, if left on all the time. The Rod gets to about 140-150 degrees. I’m wandering if I need to put it on a timer…or ? I haven’t purchased a humidistat yet…any recommendation’s and or precautions??
Fine question and I don’t know the answer to that. May be a good one to ask the safe manufacturer?
I just wonder about the stock swelling from humid to dry all the time.
When I lived in S. Georgia, I just had to empty the dehumidifier bucket twice a day–morning when I woke up and evening after dinner or before bed time. If I weren’t just renting at the time I would have installed a drain and just had the dehumidifier drain into that directly. I wasn’t doing this for guns in particular just for my own comfort. But we never had moisture issues anywhere with that set up.
I sold gun safes for years and I never heard of a stock cracking in a safe with any type of dehumidifier.
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