03-03-2012, 12:37 PM
Ship over is not the problem, they'll survive. It's living with and trying to use your tools in the Puna enviroment that kills your investment. Try as hard as I could to prevent it, all my tool stuff tried to turn to junk within a few years. The only way to prevent it is to do what I did for my guns, and that was to enclose them into a locked box with a heat/dry source and to clean and oil them often, fired or not. I'm replacing almost everything after moving back to the mainland - an expense that really should be sincerely considered when contemplating the move.