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Posted: 1/21/2013 5:40:27 AM EDT

OK, I sold my safe to fund taxes and things. I will need a new one eventually or come up with another solution.

I have a dishwasher that does not work, or I don't think it does. It hasn't been used since I was about 8 years old, and I'm 45 now.

My idea is to affix a lock to it, remove all hoses etc. It seems that it's just something most thieves would overlook. I don't have but a couple of guns left now, and I can make it where they will fit. They stay out unless I'm gone anyway. It would be used just to store documents and a couple of guns and that's it.

Good idea or bad?

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:42:16 AM EDT

[#1]

Not a bad idea. If you can hide the lock I think you have a winner!

Nt so much a safe as a hiding spot, but a good one at that.

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:44:14 AM EDT

[#2]

I voted squirrel.

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:45:50 AM EDT

[#3]

I checked all the options just cuz I can!

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:48:41 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

I checked all the options just cuz I can!

You haz infected my pole.

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:51:48 AM EDT

[#5]

I washed a nasty old Garand stock in a dishwasher once. Opened the door and the new dishwasher was black with old grease and oil inside.

Had to run about 20 cycles with laundry detergent to get it to come clean.

But......

It would make a good hiding place as long as you leave a cheap decoy gun somewhere also. Even a chest freezer works for this. Just don't put big padlocks on it. Will make it obvious you are hiding something.

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:51:53 AM EDT

[#6]

Let me guess, the OP is not a member of MENSA?

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:56:58 AM EDT

[#7]

Wonder how much fire protection you'd get? How well insulated is a dishwasher?

Posted: 1/21/2013 5:58:05 AM EDT

[#8]

There was a thread where a guy installed an actual safe inside an upright freezer. Pretty cool idea.

Searched and found this;

Similar idea.
Gun safe

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:09:58 AM EDT

[#9]

Never heard of a crook breaking into a dishwasher before.....

Just might be crazy enough to work....

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:19:27 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Never heard of a crook breaking into a dishwasher before.....

Just might be crazy enough to work....

Under the circumstances, it's actually a good idea. Imo

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:20:13 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Let me guess, the OP is not a member of MENSA?

The OP actually was as a young teen.

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:23:02 AM EDT

[#12]

Put Break Free CLP in soap dispenser, run cleaning cycle, WIN!

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:31:32 AM EDT

[#13]

i cant decide if this is genius, or insanity

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:33:23 AM EDT

[#14]

I gotta give props for a good poll

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:36:12 AM EDT

[#15]

I like the idea.

Of course if you had a working deep freezer you could store your guns in sealed plastic bags in the bottom of the deep freezer, then pour water on top to seal them in the freezer. Genius!

Edit: You poll answer depends on the definition of "is."

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:37:21 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I voted squirrel.

Ditto.

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:41:18 AM EDT

[#17]

SIIDWAPP

Stick It In DishWasher And Post Pics

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:42:03 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
I like the idea.

Of course if you had a working deep freezer you could store your guns in sealed plastic bags in the bottom of the deep freezer, then pour water on top to seal them in the freezer. Genius!

Edit: You poll answer depends on the definition of "is."

Nice! Make it better: mannequin head with wig slathered with ketchup, clear plastic bag placed in freezer center stage.

Any thief with the audacity to look in the freezer might rethink who he is fucking with

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:45:26 AM EDT

[#19]

Anything with a visible lock is going to invite a look-see.

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:50:19 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Never heard of a crook breaking into a dishwasher before.....

Just might be crazy enough to work....

Under the circumstances, it's actually a good idea. Imo

If dishwashers aren't the type of thing a "scrapper" would grab for metal content it seems like a good idea.

I might put it in a basement or leave it right in the kitchen so it's hard to get out of the house though. Garage is just asking for someone to want to "take it off your hands as a favor" some night.

Posted: 1/21/2013 6:51:46 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
I gotta give props for a good poll

Yep. I'm going with spotless.

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:00:53 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
OK, I sold my safe to fund taxes and things. I will need a new one eventually or come up with another solution.

I have a dishwasher that does not work, or I don't think it does. It hasn't been used since I was about 8 years old, and I'm 45 now.

My idea is to affix a lock to it, remove all hoses etc. It seems that it's just something most thieves would overlook. I don't have but a couple of guns left now, and I can make it where they will fit. They stay out unless I'm gone anyway. It would be used just to store documents and a couple of guns and that's it.

Good idea or bad?

Im not concerned with your idea as I am curious as to why you have a non working dishwasher for 37 years lying about your place?

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:01:39 AM EDT

[#23]

The barrels of the rifles will stick out of the top where you cut out the hole.

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:03:12 AM EDT

[#24]

I like the idea of hiding in plain sight. But probably not very effective as a safe...

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:04:19 AM EDT

[#25]

Find an old side by side refrigerator. Obviously it does not have to work.

You can make a poor mans gunsafe out of it. I still have mine even though I now have a safe.

Works like a charm and is moisture proof with a golden rod in it and some desiccant.

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:04:37 AM EDT

[#26]

Uparmored dishwasher?

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:07:01 AM EDT

[#27]

Hiding is often better than just plain securing, but with this thread, now everyone knows to check the dishwasher, and it is no longer hiding.

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:07:07 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
I gotta give props for a good poll

Yup.

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:07:23 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:

Quoted:
OK, I sold my safe to fund taxes and things. I will need a new one eventually or come up with another solution.

I have a dishwasher that does not work, or I don't think it does. It hasn't been used since I was about 8 years old, and I'm 45 now.

My idea is to affix a lock to it, remove all hoses etc. It seems that it's just something most thieves would overlook. I don't have but a couple of guns left now, and I can make it where they will fit. They stay out unless I'm gone anyway. It would be used just to store documents and a couple of guns and that's it.

Good idea or bad?

Im not concerned with your idea as I am curious as to why you have a non working dishwasher for 37 years lying about your place?

It's part of the cabinetry ( what da ya know, it was a word ), and was installed in 1959. It may work, but we haven't used it in 35 years. I wash dishes in the sink. I just opened it for the first time since the 1990s yesterday and was surprised to find that there were some really nice pots and pans in there. I needed to buy some and now I don't. I guess my dad was just storing them there because he never used it either.

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:20:19 AM EDT

[#30]

Do you have an unused trash compactor to keep the AKs in?

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:20:36 AM EDT

[#31]

Just a thought; but what about your AC return vent behind the filter?

Posted: 1/21/2013 7:28:52 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Just a thought; but what about your AC return vent behind the filter?

We have the old openings made into the house for window type units. It's a 3300 sq ft ranch style brick home built in 1959. It has central heating ( that I don't use , too expensive ), but not central air.

Posted: 1/21/2013 12:22:33 PM EDT

[#33]

Gotcha.

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