+goosefraba1 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 I found a large pvc pipe (10 inches wide by 4 ft long) after some flash floods two weeks ago. It has a rubber sealing cap on one end and open on the other. It has some notches in order to place it in the ground, but being that putting the container in the ground is not an option... I am think about sawing off the notches and adding another rubber cap on the end. That would make it air tight... I'm hoping. I then plan on spray painting a black base... then adding some brown.... maybe a couple of pieces of real bark... and maybe some moss. This would make it look almost entirely like a log. Has anybody made a cache like that before? I will post pics when I get it finished... it will probably take a couple of weeks. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Had one around here for a while that was disguised to look like a birch log. Be cautioned, though, that PVC generally makes a pretty poor container. The rubber stoppers are much better than screw on caps, at any rate. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 I've seen several such caches over the years. I'll also ech that most pvc caps - are not waterproof. In general PVC makes a poor material for Geocaches. But let us know how it goes..... Quote Link to comment
+goosefraba1 Posted July 22, 2009 Author Share Posted July 22, 2009 hmmm.... maybe I will make the container and then place two pretzel containers inside of that. Double protection. Quote Link to comment
+klossner Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 hmmm.... maybe I will make the container and then place two pretzel containers inside of that. Double protection.Double protection doesn't work against water. What happens is the water gets inside the first container and is then held against the inner container for a long time. It seeps in. You're better off with a single watertight container like an ammo can. Quote Link to comment
+Castle Mischief Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 From what I read recently, ball valves on the end of the pipe may be better than both screw-on lids and rubber stoppers in terms of water-proofing. Also, sometimes when people find PVC pipes laying around the first thing they think is "pipe-bomb". More often when non-cachers see people being all sneaky-like and placing/manipulating a PVC pipe in some locations they think "PIPE-BOMB!". Keep this in mind. Quote Link to comment
+goosefraba1 Posted July 24, 2009 Author Share Posted July 24, 2009 (edited) From what I read recently, ball valves on the end of the pipe may be better than both screw-on lids and rubber stoppers in terms of water-proofing. Also, sometimes when people find PVC pipes laying around the first thing they think is "pipe-bomb". More often when non-cachers see people being all sneaky-like and placing/manipulating a PVC pipe in some locations they think "PIPE-BOMB!". Keep this in mind. Well... where I plan to put it is "deep" in the woods... where I doubt that any muggle should look. I would rather try to use this pipe than an ammo box because i think that it takes a little bit more creativity... which is an added bonus to both myself and the finder. I will look into the ball valve idea... I hadnt thought of that. Thanks, -Goose- Edited July 24, 2009 by goosefraba1 Quote Link to comment
xx75vulcan Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 This size/length/diameter description you gave reminds me of this posting I saw a while back of a guy who hid this Cache.. I believe you could put some pretty cool swag in a container that size! Quote Link to comment
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