Weekly Prepper Thread

[Kartographer]

Weekly Preppers'Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice and ideas .....

[ansel12]

I want to get a penpoint flashlight that has an amber or red light to use so that it doesn’t blind me when I use it. Does anyone have one that they recommend?

Are you sure you need red? Here is a highly rated one that is very popular and high quality, though tiny. Look around their site, all of their lights have lifetime guarantees, and they mean it.

http://www.laughingrabbitinc.com/p_photon_ml2.htm

They also make this incredible AA light that you can get for about $36.00 at Amazon, it has incredible run times on red, or white, it has both colors built in, with the white much brighter as a normal flashlight and with a smaller led for the red. This light is popular with pilots.

http://www.amazon.com/LRI-PPRO-Proton-2-Colors-Flashlight/dp/B001CZ9CCO

Here are some runtimes-- http://www.laughingrabbitinc.com/f_color_use.htm

[ansel12]

In an emergency, whether using a car charger or using the solar garden lights as chargers (if yours uses AA which most do), or whatever, it helps to remember that the battery doesn’t have to always be either empty, or full.
Bringing in your partially charged batteries to use for the night, is just fine.

[greeneyes]

Well, we won’t be getting a sun room for a while unless we can sell some property and pay off the mortgage first.

Hubby is thinking we might be better off building an enclosed porch with windows on 3 sides and some sky lights, rather than a sunroom from some company.

That’s something that he could build. Our back patio is oriented southwest. We get a lot of heat on winter days when the sun is shining. We just need to do a lot of research and learning before we do anything.

When we built the patio, he poured the footings to be able to enclose the space if we wanted to, and with him doing the work, it might be more economical.

I really do admire your setup. It is only recently, that I have been able to get Hubby interested in being more self sufficient, so you can imagine how behind I feel sometimes.

At least we have got quite a lot of fruit trees and bushes going now to go along with our native persimmon and nut trees. I have some raised beds, and hubby has several garden patches and a bunch of grapes. The racoons won the first round with the grapes.LOL

[djf]

Gotta be careful with those.
I had (and still have) a really good one, bought a second at a dollar store, the thing was so flimsy it totally bent out of shape the first can I tried.
I got five or six regular hand powered can openers.

In a pinch, a hacksaw will do the job!

I’m inclined to thing if shtf, cans will be way more rare than openers.

[greeneyes]

Thanks for the links. I am thinking that the red spectrum is supposed to interfere less with your night vision. We have kinda reddish pink front porch lights now, and I can see really well with those.

The regular lights blinded me so that I couldn’t see when I got to the stairs. I even have a hard time at night watching tv or using the computer, and the street lights bother me when driving.

I have some safety glasses that have orangish lenses, and if I put those on, the computer or TV doesn’t bother me so much.

[PA Engineer]

I really do admire your setup. It is only recently, that I have been able to get Hubby interested in being more self sufficient, so you can imagine how behind I feel sometimes.

I do and understand. Going to turn in soon. Try to google "direct gain solar" design. Everything does break down into formulas with solar radiation and heating degree days for most places in the US. Would be glad t assist if you have questions. Just have paper and a calculator handy. ;-)

[Ellendra]

Here’s something: http://penicillin.wikispaces.com/Make+your+own+penicillin+now%21%21%21

Don’t know how helpful that is. And, as always with homemade medicines, try it at your own risk.

[greeneyes]

Heavens, if I waited till stuff was fully charge, I’d never use any of the lights or batteries.LOL

Our ourdoor lights are located in the front yard, and that faces east. They are never fully charged either, and they don’t last past about 10 pm.

[ansel12]

Post 62 reminded me of something.

Our desert preppers who have solar can buy a device that removes water from the desert air.

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/clean-water-appears-out-of-thin-air-with-ecoloblue.html

http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/09/dewpointe-dh9-atmospheric-water-purification-system/

[greeneyes]

Ok. I will do that. I gotta go to bed now too. Tomorrow’s target is to finish my garden clean up and get some winter wheat planted, and I have a mile long to do list.

I may take you up on the questions once I learn enough to know what to ask.LOL Thanks for the offer.

[metmom]

The point to poke a new hole in my belt.....Well just in case I ever needed a extra hole...not that I needed it...

Congratulations on your weight loss. ;)

[AlexW]

“Our desert preppers who have solar can buy a device that removes water from the desert air.”
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I will have to study those tomorrow, but it automatically makes me think “blood from a turnip”, haha.

[metmom]

NICE!!!!

(Drool)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

This is a thread Homer J Simpson posts daily from WWII era NYT newspapers. If you scroll down a little on the left side there is a story about making penicillin in the home. It’s only part of the paper. Maybe HJS can help with the rest of the story.

The entire article is on page 5, columns 1 and 2.

[3D-JOY]

Thanks for the information...I have been reading but building filters has seemed beyond my needs for one person.

I have a 5,000 gallon pool reservoir, so maybe that is the basis for staying in place and travel survival is my need.

I will look into your suggestion, thanks.

[3D-JOY]

I woke up thinking of the “get back bag”.

I need to add swim wear and a life vest. I wonder about a tiny inflatable boat and paddle?

I had not really thought this through had I? I thought I was prepared to go North or South, not home from the mainland.

Thank you for the wake up call.

[logitech]

Thanks. I like to look at the old newspapers.

[logitech]

Thanks

[Jane Long]

Thanks much for the info!

[ChildOfThe60s]

bump for further reading