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Guest cache_ninja

hey,

sometimes urban areas necessitate very small caches/cache containters.. the first micro cache in NYC was an altoids box, it worked pretty well.

 

does anyone have any other ideas for small containers for caches?

 

much thanks

c/n

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Guest Hamster

Altoids boxes are good, and so are film canisters. One thing that I would recommend are strong magnets. One has many more placement possiblities with strong magnets in a microcache. You could plant one on the underside of a mailbox forinstance.

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ahh, strong magnets, indeed good idea. where can Strong MAgnets be purchsed cheaply?

 

just thought of an idea tonight for micro-cache containers => pill containers (the cylindrical ones perscriptions come in). some are a bit larger in diameter than 35mm film cannisters, so might do well..

 

c_n|nJA

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The Kodak canisters (black w/ gray cap) are good because they are light tight and water tight. However, the lid is easily popped off. Fuji canister lids snap on very securely. The are completely clear (so not light tight) and I _believe_ that they are water tight as well. I'd test it though icon_smile.gif I'm planning a micro-stash w/ a Fuji canister.

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How about one of the small containers designed to hide an extra key under your car?

-small and VERY magnetic.

If it's hidden under something, water tightness becomes less of a problem.

 

[This message has been edited by Eoghan (edited 02-19-2001).]

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Guest Nostromo

The best, cheap, strong magnets I have found are the ceramic ones that come out of old hard drives. I picked up a pile of them from some guy on ebay for about a buck each. These things are VERY strong, and would hold up an Altoids box with no problem.

 

[This message has been edited by Nostromo (edited 02-20-2001).]

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I agree entirely with the posting about hard drive magnets. I'm a computer tech, so I have pretty easy access to these things. For those who don't work with them a lot, you can get them from places like American Science and Surplus ( http://www.sciplus.com ) or All Electronics ( http://www.allelectronics.com ).

 

I'm not affiliated with either of these sites in any way -- just that I know they both carry these "super magnets", and have good service.

 

Oh, yeah... And being an industrial surplus house, AS&S always has a HUGE supply of little trinkets, toys, baubles and bangles that sound like the sort of thing people are hiding away in the caches. Might be a great place to go for goodies.

 

-- Seamus

KC5UGQ

 

 

[This message has been edited by Seamus (edited 02-20-2001).]

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I just ripped a chunk of magnet out of an old hard drive. I used some double sided foam tape to stick the magnet to the bottom of a film canister. I put the stash note from the website in it, a log sheet and a very short icon_smile.gif pencil in it. I will hide this somewhere on Case Western Reserves University campus tomorrow(2/29). I will post it as soon as I can.

 

Matt

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Guest Richard Amirault

TAPE??? Better use some epoxy to do that son, or you'll find the magnet still attached to the metal and the container nowhere to be seen.

 

Richard in Boston

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I taped the magnet to the inside bottom of the film can. The magnet the tape only has to hold well enought to let you stick it to the metal surface. It seems to work pretty good. I used the really sticky foamed center double sided tape. But the epoxy would definitly work. I might try this on the next micro cache.

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Guest cjdoyle

Any thoughts on how to stick a film canister to the bottom of a wooden or cement bench? I was thinking of 2-sided hook-and-loop fasteners, but I'm not sure it would work that well if the wook/cement was very dirty.

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Guest DrunkenBard

I just picked up two different kinds of the magnetic keyboxes. I'll try them out and let you guys know what I find out.

 

It would be nice if the Lost City of Atlantis, commonly known as the Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex, would rise back above the waves so I can go stash the stuff I've been planning, rather than having to sit here and think of ways to put microcaches on the high points.

 

 

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I plan on implementing one using a 35mm film canister (black w/ gray lid). Still looking for a place to put it.
NOOO!!! :P
Ah ha!!!!! So Makaio is to blame, eh? :)
Hmm... According to their profile, they didn't place a micro 'til 2004... :)

Maybe they decided it was a bad idea? :)

 

Makaio does not have any micros in their profile - but if the cache was adopted by someone else it would not show up.

 

BUT - cache_ninja is the person who started this thread, and only a few days after Makaio's post, they hid a few 35mm micro containers. I wonder if this one was the very first:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a3-778354ea90f7

 

it was never found, but that person hid a few others which were. I wonder if that was the very beginning of micros? They also hid quite a few caches very early on, and were most definitely an "Original Geocacher".

 

This cache is very old, it goes back to 1943 :)

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...ab-a29e3591e2ce

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hey, <BR>sometimes urban areas necessitate very small caches/cache containters.. the first micro cache in NYC was an altoids box, it worked pretty well.<BR><BR>does anyone have any other ideas for small containers for caches? <BR><BR>much thanks<BR>c/n

I think The Hide a key magnets would be a good micro containers.

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...cache_ninja is the person who started this thread, and only a few days after Makaio's post, they hid a few 35mm micro containers. I wonder if this one was the very first:link
Well, it sounds like from this quote:
Altoids boxes are good, and so are film canisters. One thing that I would recommend are strong magnets. One has many more placement possiblities with strong magnets in a microcache. You could plant one on the underside of a mailbox forinstance.
...that someone had tried them already, as Hamster seemed to have an opinion of them. Also, I might be making this up, but didn't they originally call "micro caches" something else? Is this perhaps where the term "micro" was coined? Hmm... :D
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I think The Hide a key magnets would be a good micro containers.

For us Riffsters, the measure of a cache often rests upon the chosen container. The purpose of a cache is to protect its contents, and any container that can't accomplish this on a regular basis is not suitable for geocaching. Hide-a-keys are not even slightly water resistant, which makes them fall very low on the quality scale.

Naturally, this is our subjective, biased opinion, not fact. :)

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Wait be careful, by replying to this thread you might create a time ripple and erase all ammo cans from caching history.
Yes, but we also might do the same for micros. :(

 

So all caches would be altoid's tins then? :)

Better than the black garbage bags they liked to use back then.

 

:(:):P:(:):cry::(:( I mean really...a garbage bag! :cry::(

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