Leaving cabs in a car/van for extended periods

[GreeneKing]

It'd be easier for me to leave one DB112 (covered) in my van for band practice. I don't as I worry about the paper cones becoming soft with damp and corrosion in the frame.

What do you reckon. I live in the cold and very damp Lake District.

Peter

[gary mac]

I know it's tempting to save on lugging stuff about, but I think it's a bad plan Peter.
I've seen what happens to stuff in my shed, even when well wrapped.

[Bill Fitzmaurice]

[quote name='gary mac' post='654438' date='Nov 14 2009, 08:22 AM']I know it's tempting to save on lugging stuff about, but I think it's a bad plan Peter.
I've seen what happens to stuff in my shed, even when well wrapped.[/quote]
+1. And leaving it covered won't discourage thieves. Quite the reverse, they'll break in just to see what you've hidden.

[GreeneKing]

Thank you guys it's as I thought and I'll bring em in. Not many thieves where I live though, unless you count the chickens, cows or sheep

Chicken's 'll chase you round the yard for a bread scrap.

Peter

[witterth]

Every time Ive left gear to the "elements" be it shed,cold van,or whatever its ALLWAYS gone wrong in the long term.
Sorry, but the news is allways bad on this one!

[Delberthot]

I must've been lucky then - there have ben times when I couldn't be bothered to carry my gear the 5 feet into the house after a gig. This has been many times over the year so I've been lucky not to have anything damaged.

Perhaps the differerence being that I have brought the stuff in and its sat in the house for the best part of a week so any moisture that may have got into it has evaporated - leaving the gear in a cold van and then transferring it into a warm gig without it sitting for a few hours will probably cause a lot of damage.