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A question for those living in disaster areas

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:18:38 No.6514069 View View Reply Original Report

What do you guys do to protect your toys from natural disasters? I've been collecting for about a year now, and I just remembered I live in California. Now I'm worried about continuing with this hobby.

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Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:22:41 No.6514070 Report

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I've lived in socal my whole life and I never had to deal with this. The only precaution I've taken is to secure my shelves to the wall, to prevent tipping over, but that's good advice regardless of where you live.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:24:08 No.6514072 Report

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>>6514069
Don't live in a disaster area.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:24:14 No.6514073 Report

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Best bet is to:
Flood - Airtight containers that can float, but left in your house and tied together.
Fire and Tornado- Have a cellar that's deep enough to not be affected.
Earthquake - Good luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:27:12 No.6514075 Report

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I think the more pressing issue is crap quality shelves not withstanding the weight of what's displayed on it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:32:59 No.6514080 Report

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>>6514069
I live in Christchurch New Zealand.
We've had some pretty significant earthquakes in recent years.. you can fix display cases to walls and everything but it wont prevent things from falling during quakes and breaking..

Insurance. My collections insured under homeowners insurance and I actually made money out of the earthquake on my collection items that broke during the quake.

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Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:34:23 No.6514082 Report

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don't have clusterfucks

properly secure your furniture to the walls or floors.

Store the majority in your collection in air tight boxes.

Glass shelves are shit.
I repeat, glass shelves are shit. Get plexiglass or other durable plastic equivalents if you want a transparent display case.

Hope for the best.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 07:50:52 No.6514103 Report

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>>6514082
>I repeat, glass shelves are shit. Get plexiglass or other durable plastic equivalents if you want a transparent display case.
I work with glass and plex all day at my job. Plex is a terrrrrrrible idea for home furniture. First, it scratches extremely easily, whereas you have to go out of your way to scratch glass. Secondly, plastic cleaners are absolutely awful and streak like crazy, and in general terms plex is a pain to clean properly. Third, plex stores MASSIVE amounts of static on its surface, so basically it is like a non-stop dust and hair magnet. And fourth, you're a lot less likely to find UV-coated plexi on the market than you are to find UV-coated glass, and if anything needs replacement that cost differential will favor UV-treated glass every time.

The best advantages plex has are weight, how it breaks, and how it resists moisture collection. But considering the downsides, they'd be better off either getting glass or not even bothering with that style of display case.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 08:31:48 No.6514129 Report

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I live on the gulf coast. Almost everything I have us already in a sterilite box to protect it from the 24/7 80-100% humidity. I'm luckily not in a flood zone, and I live in a cinder block building. The big trees around it already fell over 12 years ago in Katrina. My worry is straight line winds or tornadoes taking my roof off. There's not much I can do if that happens, I'm just 100% fucked. My tiny bedroom closet is built like a bunker, though, knock on wood. If a hurricane comes my way, I'll pack my best stuff up and take it to Memphis for a few days.

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Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 08:51:51 No.6514140 Report

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>>6514103
So you're saying that the best option is to find UV coated plexiglass.

I thought almost all plexiglass was UV coated? There doesn't seem to be a short supply here.

Also, i've been working with plastic for over a year now, but i don't think I've seen much static cling.
This only happens with larger flat surfaces, right?
Does the plastic enclosure attract less dust when its higher up from the floor?

I haven't built anything yet, as i really don't need a transparent display case, but I've been slowing buying up supplies to make a tiered one.
I'm using multicolored plastics, so it'll actually look uniform and spaced, instead of like floating clusterfucks like this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 09:11:27 No.6514144 Report

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>>6514140
>So you're saying that the best option is to find UV coated plexiglass
Not at all. I still would not recommend plex for that sort of application.

Well, wait, let me back this up; are we talking strictly about shelves, or are we talking an entire case made of plex?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 09:40:56 No.6514156 Report

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>>6514129
>sterilite
You mean shitty off brand rubbermaid?
You using some kind of dessicant? If not you're just trapping humidity in with them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 09:55:49 No.6514161 Report

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>>6514156
>You using some kind of dessicant?
Yes. It at least gives me some way to keep things from being utterly ruined just from sitting out.

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Anonymous Mon 04 Sep 2017 10:02:54 No.6514167 Report

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>>6514144
oh geez no.

Only the "windows" would be plexiglass, so the front and one of the sides.
The shelves (floor) themselves will be lexan or just thicker colored acrylic. I may go with laminated wood. All depends on the price and what would look best, because I'm not a fan of looking like I'm selling shit at a Macys.

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