* -----------. .----------- * * ------ \ __ / ------ * * ----- \(..)/ ----- * This is a genuine * ---- ' \/ ` ---- * * /\LPHA * * --- : : --- * Text File *-/` '\-* (304) 683-4648 * //..\\ * 33600bps 24/7/365 ```-----UU----UU-----> ``` '//||\\` ILLIGITAMUS-NON-CARBORUNDOM-ESTE Title: The Cache Date: Tue Sep 17, 1996 18:19:44 I want to take this time to dispell some rumors about caching techneques, and offer some newly found insites to the subject. First, Oil is not a very effective rust inhibitor. Non-soap based grease is much better. Cheap grease works much better. Buy it at farm stores in 5-gallon buckets and put a thick coat (dip it) on all of your parts. Second, wrapping pieces in wax paper and masking tape is not very effective in preserving parts. The test is to hold it underwater for some time and if it stays dry inside it is okay. Third, Polyethylene bags are not good to keep stuff dry over time. Water will migrate through polyethylene (as can be seen by freezer burned food caused by water migrating out of it's polyethylene wrapping). Fourth, "zip Locking" on bags is not an effective seal. At least use a hot seal on a bag. Fifth, Make sure your burial boxes/tubes/etc are polypropylene (for the same reason as #3 above). You can buy pipe end-caps without raising suspicions.. some people use screw-on fittings and others say to glue both ends in place. You can stand your tube on end in a deep hole and your metal objects will be deep enough underground to thwart most metal detectors, while still allowing you easy access. Some people are worried about being photograped by satellites flying overhead... The Photographs taken of the earth's surface on routine flybys are not that detailed. Even our benevolent government can not keep track of every square foot of the millions of square miles of this country. They can, however, zoom in on something that is of interest to them. The way they find stuff of interest is with infrared photos and ground penetrating radar. In dry conditions Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) can penetrate the earth for miles. Underground rivers in the Sahara were found two miles down with satellite based GPR. So the second to the last place you want to bury something is out in the middle of nowhere, someplace where it does not belong. It will show up like a pimple on your forehead on both the infrared and GPR Photos. The Infrared photos can be so sensitive that they will show where the heat trasfered from your foot to your foot prints for several minutes. The IR photos can show where the dirt is a different consistency, or where there is a void under the dirt causing the temperature to be different. The defense is to bury stuff where it is not out of place: Abandoned landfills or junkyards are good. Another chunk of metal is not unusual in this setting. Another good place is near power lines. The Electromagnetic force (EMF) also interfers with radar of almost all types. And "hot insulators" that are leaking and are warm are common, which throws off IR detection. Under Bridges or other metal bearing structures are also very good. One admittedly bizarre place is to stick stuff in new graves (Hey, the digging is easy). Just make sure the coffin is made out of metal so that the metal you stick in does not look out of place. Note: Steel coffins are cheap; therefore poor people's coffins are almost always made out of steel. The absolute last place you want to bury something is on your property. Our benevolent government confiscates assets at the rate of 250,000 times a year, This is almost 1000 times a day on a 5 day week... So DO NOT bury stuff on your property or leave a trail back to yourself. Lastly, KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. If a person who is making caches makes it known that they are doing so, Then the cache is worthless... Anonymous Origin: The (/\)astelands of Alpha-1 BBS!