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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 7767155, member: 105098&quot;]I&#039;d suggest you very seriously consider your storage conditions if you want to avoid toning. Not saying its anything you are doing necessarily,just saying to consider your variables.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are they all stored in the same place? Are some towards a door or window with a possible draft or sharing an outside wall? Do you shut off central air conditioning when you leave each day? Lots of factors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The average &quot;normal&quot; Indoor air humidity is somewhere between 30-50% humidity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Simply keeping them stored in a dry, dessicated place with moisture absorbers should protect them but if you take them out of that area, maybe put them somewhere warmer or colder for a bit, then put them back can cause condensation on the metal surface from the humidity in the air. Ideally you&#039;d want to keep them all as dry and as stable as possible.</p><p>In a dark drawer let&#039;s say, with desiccant to absorb moisture in the confined space of the drawer and keeping it closed let&#039;s say, is very different from opening the drawer every day and introducing the humidity of the room to the drawer contents over and over.</p><p>Or taking the set out to look at it at a desk by a window with the sun beating in, heating up the desk surface and putting the set there. It don&#039;t take much temp change to cause a slight film of moisture on metal, the same way a cold can of soda does on a hot day in the first couple seconds. Might not be dripping, but its started getting damp immediately.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just saying you might want to really consider everything you are doing or aren&#039;t doing if this is happening to find a cause for it.</p><p>Where I am its 80%+ humidity outside pretty consistently and my central air works to keep the humidity down in the house to acceptable levels. I gave up the war against toning a long time ago and decided to embrace it rather than fight it or keep selling and rebuying sets to not have it in my collection. Its a battle I&#039;m confident I can&#039;t win in the long run. People in drier climates than mine will disagree though.</p><p><br /></p><p>It could be something to do with the distribution hub and covid too, manpower, cost savings, ect. and not have anything to do with what you are doing. They sit at the hubs for a while before being delivered. They sit on trucks for a while before being delivered. Lots of variables id spend some time thinking on the ones you have power over and see if its something with your storage that needs correcting though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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