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#61 alanoo

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 10:54 PM

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. :unsure: :wacko:



Yeah of course, you barely see it on tools or on the car (which of course as anti corrision everywhere), but for exemple last weekend in the garage I saw my two Hans devices started to show some fungus on its pads...
In the same time, the alcantara seats in the mk1 111s which where catastrophic on this last year in the garage, are now perfect in the Carcoons.

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:03 PM

We are talking about this right??

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#63 Zoobeef

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Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:03 PM

You guys and girls with your garages and carcoons! :rolleyes:/>

It's a fricking car, leave it outside:
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I agree
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Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:05 PM

We are talking about this right??


Yes the carcoon has magic VX rejuvinating powers :)

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 02:15 AM

I'm going to buy a carcoon........then put it in my garage.... Long live the Vx..

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 07:38 AM

I may buy a Carcoon to keep my kids in. They're the most precious things in my life. Can anyone recommend the best size? Are there any access hatches for passing through nourishment & schoolwork? What about suitable access for rudimentary plumbing so that some form of basic sanitation can be set up? Would this cause a humidity issue? Apologies for the noob questions Thanks

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:03 PM

I thought it was just a stupid word but I've now learned it is real :o My opinion of the word has transfered to the object :sleep: Aimy, please take your car out for a drive - I could add some miles if you don't have the time thumbsup

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:15 PM

I misread the title and thought this thread was about racoons. The thread has failed to deliver ever since.

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:17 PM

better?

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:18 PM

or (which is an anagram)

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:21 PM

I thought it was just a stupid word but I've now learned it is real :o My opinion of the word has transfered to the object :sleep:

Aimy, please take your car out for a drive - I could add some miles if you don't have the time thumbsup


No chance with all the salt on the roads she'll be getting plenty of use in the summer months :)

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:24 PM

You must have salt the size of icebergs oop north in that case! Seriously, on dry winter days....

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:29 PM

You must have salt the size of icebergs oop north in that case! Seriously, on dry winter days....


You go out when it is dark, you get home when it is dark and the following day you realise that you didn't in fact buy a blue VX, it was actually pretending to be blue, as it is infact some weird shade of grey.

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:29 PM

as it is infact some weird shade of grey.


One of the 50 ?

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:30 PM

You have too much free time if you searched for an anagram of carcoon :lol:

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:40 PM

i am sooo confused

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:41 PM

would get one but just looked them up and they are soo expensive :(

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 01:44 PM

If you had a carcoon and it snowed. You would be pritty pissed off if come spring a family of eskimos appeared

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 02:42 PM

Thanks for the advice Ms Bumblebee, very helpful for those with a carcoon. I don't have one, but do notice things corroding in my garage. Might get a de-humidifier. Or a carcoon. Or send my garage into space. Jeez, 4 pages after some simple advice to those with a carcoon, and hardly a single pun.

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Posted 16 January 2013 - 02:53 PM

You have too much free time if you searched for an anagram of carcoon :lol:


bloody hell bob, it wasn't exactly hard to figure that anagram out was it!

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