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Published: 2011-09-19 00:37:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 2994; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 15
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My twin brother has been very into geocaching in lately and when he stayed here two weeks in his summer holiday we checked together some of the local caches.Most of the containers were quite simple to find, so i desided to help him for designing and making first own geocache and with more ambitious style.
Final outcome was this quite cunning hideout in one of our old hay barns. We put there also one special "travel bug" what i soldered together from brass plate and old Finnish coins.
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Hitsiläinen miten komea toteutus tolla kätköllä! 
Ja tosi nätti TB:kin vielä
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Kolikkoviritelmä on jo hävinnyt maailmalle, mutta tosi moni on kyllä tykännyt tuosta kätköstä nettikommenteista päätellen.
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How did you cut the brass plate to make it the shape of the coins if you don't mind me asking? I think it turned out so interesting and was genuinely curious on how you did it.
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I cut the extra plate of with jeweler's saw. www.rescuepearl.com/jewlers-sa… - blog.craftedu.com/2010/06/how-…
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can you link the cache and tb on geocaching.com? :3 I would like to see where the tb are ^^
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Someone already stole our travel bug in Belgium.. :/
[link]
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Wow that looks great. I have wanted to geocache in my area but don't have a GPS tool to find them. I hope some one does find it because this is very cool.
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I don't also own any GPS-navigator, but i have checked logbook of this cache almost every day and now there is messages from 10 different guys and most of them really liked it, because of the quite unique style. (First "searching team" say that they used over 200 minutes for finding it.)
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I just put the coins on the brass sheet, heat them with propane torch until the metal parts are red hot and then put some flux and silver solder near to the coin edges and it flows quite easily between the metal surfaces. After that i just cut extra brass sheet of with jewelers saw and smoothed the edges.
There is some youtube video about copper/silver soldering: [link]
Thanks for faving this picture.
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That is quite cunning. I probably wouldn't notice any but the most obvious, but I mean, I doubt many people would find that even if they were looking.
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Yeah. Most of the people have asked more hints and so on..
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