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[techieboy]

Unless your garage is air tight and moisture free the carcoon wins IMO

As you can see this is In My Opinion but the facts are here if you care to read
http://www.carcoon.c...-carcoon-works/

I know exactly what they are. My cousins family own a classic car storage company in Suffolk, thank you very much. I also know that marketing doesn't always mean the whole truth.

[turbobob]

OK. I understand that now. But the way you went about it is why I 'waded' in. There are are more subtle means of expressing oneself.

[techieboy]

I do subtle, just seems wasted on some here.

[turbobob]

really? I'd hate to see you being blunt

[Bumblebee]

You'd best launch the fcuking thing into space then, if that's your considered opinion. At least it will actually do some mileage that way.

What was this post for? Everyone's entitled to there opinion

[techieboy]

Blunt is most definitely a thing to behold. Don't think I've ever done really blunt on here. I usually save that for my colleagues.

[Bumblebee]

Maybe you should close this thread now as what started of as a bit of advise as turned into this

[Zoobeef]

Alternatively, launch it into space where there is a vacuum and as there's no air, there'll be no moisture. Of course, there is the slight risk of cosmic dust but then that'll be the same with the carcoon unless it filters down to stupidly low particle sizes and nothing is going to save it from cosmic rays, in space or on Earth. I guess there's also the pikey solution of vac packing it, if you can find a big enough vacuum bag and decent enough pump. But that still won't save it from -10 temps if you leave it outside as it too is unheated.

Did you watch stargazing live? Wouldn't fancy the vx's chances against micrometeorites haha

[techieboy]

Maybe you should close this thread now as what started of as a bit of advise as turned into this

Indeed they are. I don't even mind when they're wrong.

As to space, here:

Alternatively, launch it into space where there is a vacuum and as there's no air, there'll be no moisture. Of course, there is the slight risk of cosmic dust but then that'll be the same with the carcoon unless it filters down to stupidly low particle sizes and nothing is going to save it from cosmic rays, in space or on Earth. I guess there's also the pikey solution of vac packing it, if you can find a big enough vacuum bag and decent enough pump. But that still won't save it from -10 temps if you leave it outside as it too is unheated.

[techieboy]

Did you watch stargazing live? Wouldn't fancy the vx's chances against micrometeorites haha

Do you fancy the Cardom's chances against a nosey chav, any more?

[turbobob]

Blunt is most definitely a thing to behold. Don't think I've ever done really blunt on here. I usually save that for my colleagues.

Poor colleagues. Although I think I may have done similar with numpty "colleagues"

[techieboy]

They're mostly 17/18yr old eeejits in a slightly call centre'ish environment and from Wrexham or similar. They appreciate honesty. Even my brand of it. It also explains why I only go the office 3 or 4 times a year, if I can help it.

[turbobob]

Are they all now on nhs support? No bloody wonder my ni is so much

[techieboy]

We could do with an NHS clinic on site. Half of them come via Remploy and bring some baggage of one form or another with them, so tiptoe'ing is required. Quite how my boss copes up there, 3 or 4 days a week, I'll never know. She's half German and half Canadian and like me, the empathy gene bypassed her. Don't even start me on our Russian developers and their neurotic project manager in Moscow.

[turbobob]

Sounds like you need an a&e on site I do sympathize though. I have to deal with the flack from the customer when one of the shop floor numpties screws something up

[Goosenka]

Not really sure what the point of the thread was, but I hate twat bubbles thumbsup/>

Sorry but that made me chuckle as well as War and Peace

[alanoo]

I have a big garage (good for 4 cars), and still it leads to much more moisture issues than my outdoor carcoons. Still... I won't buy the mkt speach stuff, they are NOT moisture free but I honestly doubt you could do as well with an independant garage without any form of heating or not close to a heated place (like one built against a house)

[techieboy]

My garage shares a wall with the house but that's the only "heat" source it has, though the room on the other side of that is my study and is rarely heated. Though I concede the amount of computer crap and other gadgets generate their own micro-climate. The only insulation is in the 2 GRP double skinned electric doors and the only proper sealing is all around those doors. There's vents in the eaves (some by design and some from the sh!t builders), daylight around the side door in places, and it's a bare concrete floor. But still not a drop of moisture anywhere; evidenced by some of my tools and other bits and pieces that show no signs of any kind of corrosion, despite no chrome or other coating and especially no care from me (most of my tools live on the floor where I throw them, until a bi-annual tidy up). My TAT oil filter tools corroded more in the house from me handling it, than it has done since moving out to the garage. The car has spent 6 years in there and hasn't dissolved yet. Maybe Bedford's temperate climate is so static that there are no temperature extremes or changes in relative humidity and there's just enough humidity to keep leather supple but not turn it into a rotten mess of mildew or the equivalent of hardboard.

[G-Bob]

You guys and girls with your garages and carcoons!

It's a fricking car, leave it outside:

[rob999]

Ahh so that's how VX's 'become' pink