Modelling Paint Containers

[+u1bd2005]

ok, i just did a trial test with a new micro container idea, the little plastic paint containers that you get with the scale model kits (as seen in pic below)

 

 

So I put a piece of paper in the contained, along with a few 5p pieces to weight it down and submerged it in water for about 2 ays, didn't exactly have high hopes, but took it out, not a drop of water had gotten inside.

 

These could prove great micro-cache containers if my next test goes well, i'm gonna write something on paper using a fine-liner/felt pen (more chance of running if it has water contact) and then submerge it for about 5 days.

 

1. Ideas on if you think these would be good for micro-cache's.

2. Have you used these as cache containers before and if so how would you rate them.

 

Will let you know the result of my next test on them.

[+TeamPennyFinder]

Test one out in the wild. Sun exposure will make some plastics brittle even after a little time outside. Make sure that it is exposed to sun,wind, rain, snow, avalanches (j/k on that one)

 

You may have something there.

[+DragonsWest]

It isn't that they are a problem while new, get some scuffing from natural dust or grit and that seal will go bye-bye. Then it's Log Soup.

[+Ms.Scrabbler]

I've had a few of these out for a few years, haven't had a problem except when they aren't closed completely.I put fake evergreen pieces from a small Christmas tree on one, put it in the V of branches in a tree, even though the V was bare of other greens it was overlooked often. It stayed for a couple of years until the tree was cut down.

[+SwineFlew]

They got a problem of breaking up after a couple years. All of them got wet logs. (I live in a part of Oregon where it rain most of the year)

[+NYPaddleCacher]

They got a problem of breaking up after a couple years. All of them got wet logs. (I live in a part of Oregon where it rain most of the year)

 

I've got a bunch of these at home that I think are similar. They're from one of the those "paint by the numbers" kits and if I recall there are about 20 containers. I don't know how long they would last in the wild but with that many containers one could replace them fairly often.

[+power69]

ok, i just did a trial test with a new micro container idea, the little plastic paint containers that you get with the scale model kits (as seen in pic below)

 

 

So I put a piece of paper in the contained, along with a few 5p pieces to weight it down and submerged it in water for about 2 ays, didn't exactly have high hopes, but took it out, not a drop of water had gotten inside.

 

These could prove great micro-cache containers if my next test goes well, i'm gonna write something on paper using a fine-liner/felt pen (more chance of running if it has water contact) and then submerge it for about 5 days.

 

1. Ideas on if you think these would be good for micro-cache's.

2. Have you used these as cache containers before and if so how would you rate them.

 

Will let you know the result of my next test on them.

a big version of the bio container. after about 10 finds the lids break off and shortly thereafter go missing. a fuji film cannister is better than those.

[knowschad]

The paint works very nicely for camouflaging plastic match containers.

[+secretagentbill]

There is a hundred-cache series along a bike trail in Michigan that I did a year or so back. (To save time and sanity, I only hit about half of them.) Many, if not most, of the containers were these little paint containers. There were also a few film cans and what-not thrown in. I'd say every single log was wet. Many were just mush. On several of them I didn't even pull the log out; I just drew an 'x' on the top of the log/mush/wad laying in the container. I use a gel pen, so that worked. From experience, I'd say these containers are a bad idea.