Okay, trying to get this entry in before the original deadline, so this doesn't eat up any more of my time.
(Except that then I need to post the BoBs and the NEF Survivor handi-Rifle kit...)
Too many photos - sorry.
I hunted around to see what I had on hand for this challenge, and remembered that back when my wife still drank coffee, I had picked up a nice stainless steel french press coffee pot for camping.
I thought this would be much better than one of the cups that fits over a Nalgene bottle - could boil more than a liter at a time. And provides GREAT protection for the contents.
And the 1 L Nalgene JUST fits - for the first few inches. But it is so snug that at that point you've got a piston compressing the remaining air. If you worked long and hard, I think you could get it to the bottom, but getting it OUT again would be phenomenally difficult. Also, this was an old Nalgene - rumor has it that the new ones are slightly wider, so they wouldn't fit at all.
I thought about finding a set of shaping rollers and adding a slight crease or ridge running down from the spout, so that the air could escape, but low enough that the french press screen would still work.
Or drilling a hole near the bottom and welding on a vent tube on the side opposite the spout.
Decided these were both too extreme - especially after I realized that I had a couple of old Sierra Designs labeled Platypus 1 L bottles lying around.
By serendipity, AKA dumb luck, I spotted a deal at CVS Pharmacy. They have pocket sized J&J first aid kits in their "Sample size" section for $1.99. These are the white boxes in the photos. These are a great deal, with quite a good selection of contents for the price. But after getting several, I discovered that these fit perfectly inside the coffee pot, and you can stack two up in the center and still be below the lid of the Maxpedition Mini-RolyPoly that I am using as the 100 cubic inch container. And they are bigger than the Altoids tin.
So one of these boxes is loaded up with FAK and sewing kit, while the other has fire, light, tools, small items. Altoids tin has fishing kit and other items that didn't make it in elsewhere.
Maxpedition Mini-RolyPoly Dump Pouch with a small Velcro square I added to end of strap to fasten down "lid". Inelegant incompressible Platypus bottle nozzles sticking out. Princeton-Tec Pilot LED light on strap. (Includes flasher mode, and can be hand held or mounted on strap clip.)
Pouch back showing dual drawstrings and locks, webbing clip, MOLLE webbing over belt loop and above another big Velcro patch. I discovered that the Mtechneck knife will fit securely under the MOLLE webbing.We'll see if the Becker Necker fits there when it arrives next week.
Unpacking - Just above the Pilot LED is a stack consisting of the pot lid, knob removed, the sieve part of the French Press (bottom cover.sieve screen, upper cover and coil spring), and two coils of snare/repair wire - 10 feet of 1/32 in braided stainless steel, and 25 feet of 28 gauge galvanized steel wire.
Fishing lines are also in this stack. They show up in the photo of the fishing kit.
The stack of French Press components, snare/repair wires, fishing line all sit in the bottom of the pouch, with the coffeepot resting on top of them.
Stuffed in the coffeepot, visible from left to right is the neck knife and sheath, tarp/poncho, one of the white boxes (FAK - on top for quick access), Sawzall pruning blade (6 or 9 inch), LED headlamp. Yellow cord is there for extraction purposes, with pull loops. The lower level is pretty tightly packed.
The two water bottles and the ziploc with the several square feet of paper towel (TP alternative) are both inside the bag but outside the coffeepot, slide between the two.
The lower level pulled up - Altoid tin, white box (tools and fire), emergency bivy sack
The contents of the bag and pot arrayed - right to left, top to bottom:
60 feet paracord - acts as shoulder strap, double up twice to four strands, then monkey chained, clipped to full size carabiner, which is clipped to MOLLE loop on pouch.
Stainless steel french press coffee pot
original handle for pot - I am in the process of fabricating a replacement for this handle specifically designed for this challenge. More on that later this week...
Maxpedition Mini-RolyPoly Dump Pouch - listed as 100 cu.in.
LED headlamp, uses CR2016s, same as the other two lights
2 x 1 L Platypus flexible bottles
9 x 6 foot (mostly) clear plastic tarp, for shelter and poncho use.
Three parts of French Press sieve/plunger
25 ft of 28 ga. galvanized steel wire
10 ft coil of 1/32" stainless cable
Pot lid
three sub boxes- 1 Altoid, 2 plastic, contents shown in later photos
Zip lock containing a couple of square feet of paper towels
3 x flare pen loads, two green, one red
MayDay Flare pen, spring loaded firing pin launcher
MTech neck knife with integral whistle built into sheath, and cordage
Handle knob for pot.
Shaft and theaded fitting for pot plunger
3 x 8" red zipties
2 x 12" white zipties
6" or 9" Pruning Sawzall blades
Emergency bivy sack, silver with yellow tapes (84" x 36"/213 cm x 90 cm)
Esbit emergency stove, flatpack
3 sq. feet of heavy duty aluminum foil - possible windscreen, in-fire cooking container, etc.
yellow cordage for extraction from pot
White box - fire & tools
Standard BIC in Orange
Scout Firesteel and striker
Pair of nesting split rings (snare triggers, etc.)
Allen wrench and hardware for Sawzall blade
pair of nails with "double heads" - variety of uses
3 x Esbit fuel cubes
Button compass
Princeton-Tec Photon, keychain LED
2 x 3.25 inch diameter adhesive nylon patches
Gerber Vise mini multi-tool
Signal mirror
White box - FAK
2 x Emergen-C electrolyte and vitamin packets
1 x Electro-Mix electrolyte packet
1 2x4 in. adhesive bandage
moleskin
2 x neosporin triple antibioticpackets
2 x Betadine antibiotic swabs
1 2 x 3 in adhesive bandage
1 large knuckle bandage
1 medium knuckle bandage
1 x J&J antibiotic ointment
1 packet sunblock cream SPF 20
2 x two tablet packets Motrin (200 mg ibuprofen)
2 2x2 in. gauze
6 x wound closure strips
6 x Katadyn MicroPur water treatment tablets
2 x PeptoBismol tablets
2 x Vicodin (5/500 APAP/hydrocodone) in vial
4 x Benadryl, in vial
2 x Immodium (or equiv.)
Sewing card with
5 feet of heavy black thread
12 feet of very heavy waxed white thread (practically cord)
2 x awl needles
1 x straight heavy duty sewing needle
1 x curved heavy duty sewing needle
1 x Mini-Awl (handle crosspiece is 2.5 inch cotter pin)
4 x safety pins (large to small assortment)
1 x paper clip
60 feet of paracord in Monkey or Sinnet chain with full strength carabiner clipped to MOLLE loops
Assembled coffeepot in back
Fishing Kit:
2 x nylon coated steel leaders, 12 in, 30 lb test - also useful for snares
3 x #4 snelled hooks
3 x #6 snelled hooks
3 x #8 snelled hooks
6 snap swivels, 2 each in three sizes
2 x #4 hooks
2 x #6 hooks
2 x #8 hooks
1 x Mepps French Spinner lure
1 x Macks Wedding Ring lure (pre-snelled)
3 assorted dry flies
6 larger split shot, 2 each in three sizes
1 sinker on swivel
1 plastic vial containing:
7 small split shot, and
1 long lead weight that wraps around line
1 vial containing 4 Berkeley Gulp! "salmon eggs"
(The two vial do double duty as bobbers)
pair of foam ear protection plugs, which also do double duty as bobbers
Slingshot rubber and pouch (for use with the coffee pot handle, and, in a pinch, the split shot)
10 feet of 2 inch Duct Tape, wrapped around a pair of business cards, which contain name, address and other contact info. The pair of cards also allows you to open the flat tape pack out into something more closely resembling a tape roll.
CASH - Tucked in between the two cards is a collection, one each, of $100, 20, 10, 5 bills.
50 feet of 40 lb. test fishing line
50 feet of 15 lb. test fishing line
Pruning saw made from a 9" Milwaukee Sawzall Pruning blade, the Milwaukee replacement fitting for these saws, the coffeepot handle, and a stainless steel hose clamp. Should work as well or better with the handle I am making. Probably use a through-bolt or a second hose clamp on the final version.
The 6 in. blade is a wood/plastic blade, works okay on wood, but not as well as the pruning blade (which has a tooth pattern which is very close to the fast cutting pruning saws I've worked with before).
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Okay - a couple of items that didn't make it into the photospreads.
Short regular thickness pencil
small brass wedge pencil sharpener
Set of spare 2016 batteries for all lights
The pencil and sharpener are multipurpose - pencil shavings are excellent tinder!
And the solid brass sharpener makes a perfectly acceptable chockstone (very close to a Choinard Stopper) and a passable wedge.
I can make firestarters from cordage or paper towel or bandage coated with neosporin, in a pinch.
Or add the small package of firestarter i have lying around.
There are some ranger bands that slide onto the pot handle.
I consider the button compass more of a back-up, and will include the pin-on AirGuide compass and P-38 (see photo below). I'm considering swapping out something to squeeze in the cheesy LED wand in the photo - pluses are that it runs for 200 hr, has TWO lights (front, back/wand) and a flasher mode, and can be tied to a string and whirled for signaling.
And I REALLY need to figure out how to fit the tiny vacuum packed brick of French Roast in there somehow.
Other possible swaps include losing the flat Esbit and fuel and using one of the little folding German copper stoves with 12 fuel tabs stashed inside, and squeezing the fishing kit where the Esbit fuel was stashed.
The bulkiest items were the Emergency bivy and the tarp/poncho. Considering swapping in the Heatsheet and some UL tarp/poncho, but feeling a might thrifty these days...
And while none of my firearms would fit this kit, the flare pen is a barely viable defensive weapon.
Now that is some good shit there! You just killed my idea of packing a separate net for such things... 
