+jcblough Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Here's one of the containers I've made using scrap parts around the office- has anyone made one smaller? Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Google 'nanocache'... that one is quite large compared to some I have found! Quote Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 GCJQ37 Teenie Tiny Jr Quote Link to comment
+jcblough Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Dang those are small, I just finished one that is about 1/4" shorter than the one I posted. . . but dang. Quote Link to comment
+Bamboogirl Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Jeeeez. What's next - a Pico cache? A cache at atomic level? That one better be at the coordinates marked or the hints should include bringing a portable microscope. Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) I picked up my elderly aunt in MS for the Christmas holidays and on the way to Birmingham we found a few caches, just to show her what my obsession is about. One cache appeared to be on or near a big ivy-covered black iron bolt-studded latticework. I told her the coords put me in the area of the lattice, that we were likely looking for something magnetic, and I started looking - she stood looking at this structure, watched me search all over it, then hobbled over on her cane, picked off the nearly invisible nanocache and says "Is this what you're looking for?"! Yup, it was the nano sbell depicts! She's been bragging about it ever since! Edited January 10, 2007 by TheAlabamaRambler Quote Link to comment
+jcblough Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 I got one of these on order. Quote Link to comment
+WeatherednBoston Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) Here's one of the containers I've made using scrap parts around the office- has anyone made one smaller? I call that a "Florida Micro" I was just down there and DNF on about 30 micros. I did find one that looked just like that...it was covered in cammo tape and dangling from a tree with green wire meant for bunching flowers together it was hanging in a tree with many small leaves. It was the best micro I have ever seen. I was really proud of myself for finding that. LOL Edited January 10, 2007 by WeatherednBoston Quote Link to comment
+nekom Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'm asking seriously here, who the heck signs the logs in these things? That guy who wrote the lord's prayer on a grain of rice (you probably saw one of these, or something similar if you were ever in a ripley's believe it or not museum) I can barely write legibly in a notebook! Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'm asking seriously here, who the heck signs the logs in these things? That guy who wrote the lord's prayer on a grain of rice (you probably saw one of these, or something similar if you were ever in a ripley's believe it or not museum) I can barely write legibly in a notebook! A finely sharpened pencil. I have found 4 such caches. 2 had enough paper for 4 or 5 sigs - the other I left 3 little red marks as evidence of my visit (no room) and one was an older cache that required a keyword found in the container. (no longer allowed) Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'm asking seriously here, who the heck signs the logs in these things? That guy who wrote the lord's prayer on a grain of rice (you probably saw one of these, or something similar if you were ever in a ripley's believe it or not museum) I can barely write legibly in a notebook! I signed the forty or so of that size I have found with just my initials - TAR. Rolling the log up and getting it back in the cache is often more time-consuming and frustrating than hunting and finding it. Quote Link to comment
+jcblough Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 I signed the forty or so of that size I have found with just my initials - TAR. Rolling the log up and getting it back in the cache is often more time-consuming and frustrating than hunting and finding it. In my sub-micros I try to make the log a few inches shorter than need be to make it a bit easier to get them back in. I've got this one, one a bit smaller then one made out of the base of a radio antenna. Rolling them up and getting them in/out can be hard. Quote Link to comment
+TheAlabamaRambler Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Some cachers use a small peice of wire shaped like an L or a ] and glue it to the log strip of a nano, making a spindle to extract the log and to roll it back arround - this makes it much easier to do both! Quote Link to comment
+Swink Family Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Just my opinon...anything smaller than a bison tube is ludicrous. Not knocking your abilities, but I have my limits. Quote Link to comment
+The StephMeister Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Just my opinon...anything smaller than a bison tube is ludicrous. Not knocking your abilities, but I have my limits. Rediculous.......geeeeeez Quote Link to comment
+Bundyrumandcoke Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Try a cache inside the valve stem of a wheel on a vehicle. The vehicle is on display on the side of a highway. Quote Link to comment
Pxtyson Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Do they really need to be that small? What is the point of looking for something that is almost impossible to find. The one thing i hate is getting to the co-ords. and looking everywhere and not finding it only to realize it was right there in front of me. why dont you hollow out a piece of gravel and put a log in it and then toss it on your gravel driveway next. that will be fun Quote Link to comment
+horsegeeks Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Do they really need to be that small? What is the point of looking for something that is almost impossible to find. The one thing i hate is getting to the co-ords. and looking everywhere and not finding it only to realize it was right there in front of me. why dont you hollow out a piece of gravel and put a log in it and then toss it on your gravel driveway next. that will be fun HMMMM..... Quote Link to comment
+jcblough Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 Do they really need to be that small? What is the point of looking for something that is almost impossible to find. The one thing i hate is getting to the co-ords. and looking everywhere and not finding it only to realize it was right there in front of me. why dont you hollow out a piece of gravel and put a log in it and then toss it on your gravel driveway next. that will be fun Well, oddly enough, I have 3 sub-micro caches. They are my most visited, most logged and most complimented - so someone must like looking for them. Quote Link to comment
namiboy Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 i found one of these that was the first part of a multi, it had the coords for the next stage inside. trying to remember now, but i don't think i had to sign this one, just get the coords. the way it was placed was in plain sight, once you found it, if that makes sense. you didn't have to move any leaves or anything like that out of the way. i'll bet a thousand kids have seen it and thought nothing of it. i thought in that type of situation it was pretty cool. Quote Link to comment
adampierson Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 A coworker and I found such a cache an hour ago. I HATE THEM! Quote Link to comment
+jcblough Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 A coworker and I found such a cache an hour ago. I HATE THEM! I think they are fun - to a point. If you hide them in a spot where that size is almost required and you have good coords, it is a really cool and rewarding find. My first one this size took me 3 trips out, but I got it. After that one, I sought out caches that size and got to where I could find them good. I've found one like that in a hollow tree, up in the hole stuck on a wood screw screwed into the hollow tree. VERY tough find, but very cool at the same time. it had coords for a 2nd part of a multi-cache and a log to sign. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I recently found one that was a cap nut on the end of a bolt. At first I thought the bolt would be hollow (we had found one in the area the day before) but the bolt was solid. We then noticed that inside the cap nut was a small, lightly laminated piece of paper about 1/4 inch wide and 4 inches long folded into the end of the nut. On it was a note to send the cache owner an email to the account listed there with a given code word to prove that you were there. Quote Link to comment
+JennM Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 We found one of those as part of a multi. That part contained the co-ordinates of the second stage, which was a regular ammo can. I nearly missed that tiny micro - in fact we passed it over twice before I actually tapped it to see if it would move - and it did! Jenn Quote Link to comment
+Maingray Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Do they really need to be that small? What is the point of looking for something that is almost impossible to find. The one thing i hate is getting to the co-ords. and looking everywhere and not finding it only to realize it was right there in front of me. why dont you hollow out a piece of gravel and put a log in it and then toss it on your gravel driveway next. that will be fun HMMMM..... *takes notes* Quote Link to comment
+WalruZ Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Those nano-caches start life as LED 'jewelry'. There's a magnet on the base and the cap has a very small led light that flashes. The 'compartment' is for the small battery that runs the light. Remove the battery and paint it to match a ferrous structure, add a log made from a thin strip of paper and you have a nano cache. One of the best I've found was embedded in a tree burl which was itself attached to it's host tree via RE magnets. They are a maint. nightmare. The logs fill up quickly - don't place one that's off your own personal beaten path. Quote Link to comment
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