[niles]

Keith:
Just had my second cup of coffee.
Cosmoline is a old storage method.
Somehow I forgot of all my recent missle and high tech equipment storage experience.
Normally engines/missles etc are stored in a hermetically sealed drum or o-ringed box that has a desicate port(chemical moisture absorber). The boxes are purged and filled with dry nitrogen and every year the desicate is checked or replaced.
This keeps metal parts like new; only problems are when foams or plastics outgas and causes a chemical reaction with some component such as plastic encapsilated electronic parts or batteries. Any of these military base salvage monthly sales are likely to have surplus engine or large equipment containers being surplused. They have a sale every month here at Eglin AFB.
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