Posted on 11/20/2015 10:28:09 AM PST by William of Barsoom
Micro-Prepping: Final Call. If you're reading these pages, you know it's coming. You probably also think it's close -- very close.
We think much alike, you and I. I think that is why I yearn for a life in TN and plan to move there in the near future.
Good call. I forgot about that.
Grrrr, where did you get the still? Sounds like a good thing to have!
Get your legal work in order.
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Lots of prepping info by Steven Harris.
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Not gonna be a later ........:o)
Makes me want to watch the Serenity series again ...
Thank-you. Where do I find dry gas and what is the proportion. Funny tip about the rental.
Have a Merry Christmas!
Great suggestions - being even a little prepared beats the Hell out of not being prepped at all.
I might add that one should either buy or construct (out of tin/steel food cans) a rocket stove. There are many out there for not much money, and dozens of YouTube videos on making one (I did it, so it can’t be that hard - just have tin snips). That, and some fuel - wood, mainly. I have saved up literally thousands of popsicle sticks over the years, plus gotten scrap wood (NOT fiber-board - it has glue that you don’t want to sniff when it is burning) at Home Depot for nothing, plus sticks you can pick up for free courtesy of Nature. Have LOTS of matches (cheap as dirt), and have them in a water-proof container (or several) - any screw-top jar works fine.
What this will do for you is to allow that non-perishable food to be heated, which really expands your options and makes hard living for a couple of weeks much more palatable.
So, for example, you can get a LOT of spaghetti for cheap (don’t forget to store sauce, perhaps including some kind of cheese sauce), and it never goes bad, but unless cooked in water I don’t recommend eating it.
Ditto for lentils - high in fiber and protein, fairly cheap, doesn’t go bad.
Soups - you CAN certainly have them cold, but warm is generally much better. Ditto for stuff like canned sweet potatoes (VERY nutritious and calorie-dense and it’ll really increase the palatability of an otherwise boring meal).
The uber-present and ultra-cheap (but calorie-dense) Ramen noodles can also be cooked with a rocket stove.
FYI, no one looks funny at you if you buy a dozen Ramen noodle packages, 4 boxes of spaghetti, a bunch of tomato sauce (esp. cheap brands on sale), a few pouches of lentils, cans of carrots, peas, baked beans, sweet potatoes, etc.
Oh, and LOTS and LOTS of water. Not just for cooking, but also for sanitation. Buying the cases of bottled water is great for drinking, and very cheap (about $0.10/bottle, sometimes less, from most box stores), but also save all of the empty 2- and 3-liter plastic soda bottles you use. Rinse them well, using dish soap, and put in a couple of drops of household bleach (unscented) before closing. Recycle the water every 6 months or so (use the old stuff for the garden, or for your foundation if you live in a dry area).
Just my $0.02
“white LED typically sucks 20 mA at ~3V. Five LEDs at the same time means (5 x 20mA = 1000 mA or 1A) you are pulling ONE AMP out of those tiny batteries.”
You mean FIFTY LEDs would consume power at the rate of one amp per hour lol.
Also, I
never get more than 1,500 mah out of AA alkalines at any useful discharge rate.
“A marine battery 24F, 40 watt solar panel, and 300 - 600 watt dc to ac power inverter can acquired cheaply”
I am in the middle (literally) of re-assembling a hobbyist system of roughly 10-15 times that capacity at our new residence. Even it has severe limitations. For example, it will run an 8,000 BTU portable air conditioner but it’s drawing current out of the batteries like Grand Coulee dam to do so. At the rate of about 100 amps @ 12V. Very adequate for things like lighting, most power tools and small appliances, though. But it is a good thing the.microwave doesn’t really run very long or it would be like the AC!
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I absolutely love the scene where Mal directs the crew to outfit the Firefly to look like a Reaver boat. That's when he makes it clear to all that he IS the Captain and is through screwing around with the Alliance..
"Any who don't want to fight along side are free to do so, but this here is your port of call."
Your $.02 is GOLD!
It is one of my favorite series and movie. ‘I am a leaf on the wind’
You can get dry gas at most auto parts stores, or Walmart.
1 8oz bottle usually does a 16 gal tank of gas.
Please very carefully inspect the visual quality of the old white gas.
It should be crystal clear, and if in a metal Coleman can, ensure no rust flake sediment will be poured out into your fuel tank.
You may want to use a very fine filter funnel.
If this is all a bother, consider donating the old white gas to a farmer with an old gas tractor (they run on almost anything) or see if your town has a hazardous waste collection day that will take it.
Be Very careful handling or transporting it.
Please.
Ummm, a grenade?
Where’s that an everyday item?
Afghanistan ;n)
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