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Post by tomatoes on Jul 30, 2017 9:54:14 GMT 10
What about using a metal safe/filing cabinet? There's also the idea of a microwave oven (if it works). All of these are easily and quickly accessible. I must have been writing my last post at the same time as your message was written |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2017 8:12:19 GMT 10
Hi sorry for the delay in responding, I had to work...(shock horror).
Any metal container that is electrically conductive all the way around it, with no areas or openings that are not electrically connected together will stop all forms of radio waves from effecting the contents.
I like to use fero magnetic containers as I suspect a nuclear blast will also unleash a strong burst of magnetism which only fero magnetic material can screen from, which is any metal a magnet will stick too.
Steel filing cabinets seem to tick all the boxes, however I would worry that the door on a micro wave oven is only designed to stop microwaves nothing more.
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Post by tomatoes on Aug 15, 2017 8:22:43 GMT 10
Steel filing cabinets seem to tick all the boxes, How much sealing up do you think would be needed around drawer gaps? Would it only work if the cabinet was so sealed as to make it practically unusable - ie only good if you had warning and could tape (with conductive tape) it all closed? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2017 8:39:37 GMT 10
Steel filing cabinets seem to tick all the boxes, How much sealing up do you think would be needed around drawer gaps? Would it only work if the cabinet was so sealed as to make it practically unusable - ie only good if you had warning and could tape (with conductive tape) it all closed? Hi Since the draws of a steel filing cabinet are recessed when closed any pathway for radio waves would have to go around corners to get to get to the contents, and since the gaps have very little similarity to wave guides I don't think the tiny gaps under three millimeters would be a problem as long as their is no direct path to the contents from those gaps. |
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Post by tomatoes on Aug 15, 2017 20:49:32 GMT 10
Hi Since the draws of a steel filing cabinet are recessed when closed any pathway for radio waves would have to go around corners to get to get to the contents, and since the gaps have very little similarity to wave guides I don't think the tiny gaps under three millimeters would be a problem as long as their is no direct path to the contents from those gaps. Hmmm ... that makes a filing cabinet a much better option than I had previously thought. I'd seen videos showing things like metal cupboards etc being sealed carefully with conductive tape. Think I saw that with a filing cabinet too. By far my preferred option is just to line a filing cabinet drawer and make that the permanent home for gadgets. |
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Post by Peter on Aug 15, 2017 22:12:01 GMT 10
Heck, if nothing else, filing cabinets are one of the best solutions for storing power tools in the shed...
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Post by colonel on Aug 15, 2017 22:47:24 GMT 10
Filing cupboards may be good and cheap. But they aren't very strong. I keep spare hard drives and various important devices in a large fire proof safe.
Would a safe work as a good faraday cage?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2017 6:02:01 GMT 10
Hi Colonel it is going to depend on the safe, if it is the type that is only a front to a wall cavity set in cement then maybe it would not be a good Faraday cage, but if it is all metal and a magnet will stick to all the sides and front then the safe should work just fine.
I worry about your comment that a filing cabinet is not very strong, in that my thinking is if I'm so close to some event that it destroys my filing cabinet, then it has probably taken me out in the process and I don't need to worry about it..... It sort of comes back to the old question of survival at any cost needs to be well thought out.
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