Rust - What am I doing wrong?

When I was in the bush a lot for work for reasonable periods I used car polishing wax on the underside of the barrel and action parts that I couldnt get at easily. It lasted and seemed to work. I recall that a few times I put it on the outside metal as well, and it lasted quite a while before it got rubbed or washed off. It drys on and goes quite hardish. That was in the olden days.

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Originally Posted by nicks_tricks

Interesting. How do you apply it?

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My guess is if you can afford bars of palladium etc you don't.
You get the help to do it for you.

UPDATE - Opened the safe for the first time in weeks, checked rifle, no rust!! The heat rod and damprid inside the safe are working well. The damprid had collected a fair amount of liquid, surprised really because I have another damprid container outside the safe and it has bugger all liquid in it.