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Oh well, it gives me a reason to get pictures with a better camera.

I'm truly sorry to hear that. My wife believes that Golden Labs are the "best dogs in the world". Sounds like Jessie lived up to that high billing. Second best. Australian Shepherds are the best.

I can't believe I did this, AGAIN! I just hid a cache 36 miles from home, as the crow flies. It's a 50+ mile drive that takes me over an hour. Well, I placed the cache and it turned out to be too close to another cache (who would have thunk that far into nature) but the space is special to me so I went out yesterday to move it a bit. I snapped new coordinates for it and headed back home. Well, today while getting the coordinates for the move, I accidentally deleted them so now I have to go back a third time to snap new coords. On top of that it's a 4 terrain, though just a short span of it is that hard. Ever have one of those hides?

I have a friend who is going to Maui in 2 weeks. Too bad she's a muggle. Sorry.

No, not for very long. The adhesive on the tape will dry out in the weather. Apoxy on the outside of the container maybe? Like stated above, inside works the best if you have a magnet strong enough. Not sure what the weather in Alabama is like. I've seen caches that basically have a magnet duct-taped around last a few years around here. I guess part of how long it will last is how exposed it is to the weather. I thought of using heat shrink tubing, but don't think the plastic of the match safe will hold up well to it. Found a source for diametrically magnetized magnets (magnetized across the diameter, rather than end to end). I've bought from them before, but I'm not associated with them in any way. http://www.magnet4less.com/index.php?cPath=1_133 I have heat shrink tubing that will go over a match container. That would be a good way to make a magnet permanant to the match container.

10 times will hold for a while but not forever. If you don't mind checking on it regularly, it will be OK. Thanks for trying to make your cache better.

Although I admire the desire to make it magnetic, I'm afraid that your method of attaching the magnets won't work for long. Duct tape won't survive outside for long and any adhesive (by itself) won't hold through the natural heat/cold cycles that the container will experience. If you can't get a strong enough magnet to place it inside the container then you will need to encase the magnet in plastic and then bond the plastic to the container. The plastic has to be substantial, not a ziploc baggie. Hope that helps.

I think it's an awesome sig item and would love to get one. If i could make a suggestion. Add a notecard with your name and put them in small plastic baggies. That way people will know they are from you. I also added the year to my sig items so that people will be able to collect more than one (and I hope to change the sig item a little each year).

I can see why their supply of those items would be erratic. Yeah, and delivery times glacial. It always amazes me how glaciers can carefully deposit rocks inbetween trees like that.

Polyart paper is 100% waterproof.

You are making me cry. I can't throw a hard drive away without taking the magnets out first. I probably have 20 sets of hard drive magnets and have given away many many more. The garbage is a horrible place for a hard drive magnet, or a hard drive for that matter. The case can be recycled, the circuit boards go to a gold recovery guy, the disks get sent to another guy who makes wind chimes and the disk separators also get recycled. But the magnets... They end up stuck to something metal.

It's the blue box in the corner, isn't it?

I can get these for $7 each

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You must be old... It looks like you forgot that you posted this a couple times before. Keep up the caching. It seems to be doing you good!!

Pennies are exempt. This is a fact. And what's with the Obama jab? THat law is VERY old and has nothing to do with any president in your lifetime.

It is very easy. That's why I like the design so much. For the lock, find a small solenoid and make it work as a latch.

Single throw... ~LMAO~ Come on, think of how much fun it will be for someone to try to hold the switches while trying all kinds of combos. Now, for a different take. Put together a box with the pushbutton switches and the lid locked but leave the bottom of the box open so that the switches don't do a thing.

A simple schematic would be easy. I would suggest using momentary switches with a combination of NO and NC so that you could trigger a magnetic lock but not have someone accidentally leave the circuit charged and kill the battery. To wire it you would just put them all in series to the mag lock.

I will. It's pretty easy to make these since I seem to have ended up with a few bird molds. I even have an owl or two. The painting might take some time though.

What's it made of? Right now, clay. I will kiln fire it tomorrow. It will "technically" be ceramic when its done. I made it extra thick so it can handle being dropped in the forest where it will be placed (away from rocks). I'm thinking it will live in a nest, on the ground.

What is a lamp pole skirt?

Work in progress It's hard to tell but it's a bird that's about 4.5 inches tall. I think it's supposed to be a nesting grouse.

Congrats. I wish I knew of geocaching when my kids were younger.

I thought drinking and driving were Canada's #2 pass time, right after watching people get their teeth knocked out on the ice chasing a small plastic disk.