Zombie Squad

I keep some lite salt in the pantry in case I needed to make some homemade ORS , it adds potassium. Never tried it, suspect gator-aid tastes better but might be a shortage of that in the apocalypse. Curing salts (with sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite) like Morton Tender Quick for preserving meat/fi...

https://i.postimg.cc/k5HyynP4/edc.jpg Band-aids, splinter out, and CPR face shield from my wallet. Carabiner multitool from my keyring. I work from my home in a rural area and don't always carry the S&W 638, but it's kept in a hidden location near the door so I can grab it easily on the way out whe...

Will you be able to mount it at the height recommended by the manufacturer Halfapint? If so you can probably stop reading here. The reason I ask is because I didn't, and while I knew it wouldn't work as well what I found was it didn't work at all. As I recall your place is pretty heavily wooded, but...

In a similar vein to the Bug Out Deals thread, post any first-aid or medical gear/equipment deals here. ShopMedVet is having a liquidation sale on a large number of products: https://www.shopmedvet.com/category/product-liquidation-sale Haven't looked through all the categories yet but know I'll be p...

(Arise post) Would micro-SD cards be a viable storage medium? According to https://blog.storagecraft.com/data-storage-lifespan/ Media ------- Estimated Lifespan Magnetic data (tapes) Up to 10 years Nintendo cartridge 10-20 years Floppy disk 10-20 years CDs and DVDs 5-10 unrecorded, 2-5 recorded Blu...

Good post. Thanks for sharing. I generally charge my boost battery monthly. I have been looking at one of the batteryless ultracapacitor devices as well as the newer li-ion devices to replace current lead acid unit. This seems like a neat alternative. Thanks. So far, so good. Drained the jump start...

I mentioned this in passing in the " What did you today for your BOV/how did you prepare your BOV " a few weeks back, didn't go into details because really wasn't sure it'd work. It took awhile to receive the solar charge controller , and then a foul weather delay, and finally troubleshooting (and r...

I got one of those Stanley Jump Starters as a gift a few months ago. Too big for my car, but I put in my Suburban so that I'd have one in there. Haven't tried jump starting a vehicle yet, but the monthly charging requirement is for real. I've pulled it out a few times and found it was down to a sin...

I am considering another approach, however. After poking around a bit, and having considered a small cargo trailer conversion, I'm wondering if I should just make a little trailer into a rolling workshop, with a cot and a few living items inside. I can find a cheap piece of land somewhere, and if/w...

No it's not direct wired; it plugs into a wall outlet. But if I go that route, I'll fire up the gasoline generator I've already invested in before I consider purchasing a deep cycle battery and an inverter. I agree however with what I think is the premise behind Yossarian's line of questioning: it'...

I'll second the portable unvented heater suggestion, for an apartment maybe one of the Mr. Heater Buddy heaters that run off the 1 lb cylinders. Or at least, can't think of a safer method to provide 9-18k BTUs of heat in a safer manner in an apartment. Electric heat with wind or solar isn't a soluti...

I know a lot of us prep the standard items, water, canned good, etc. Just wondering what one item are you keeping in your preps that you really don't need, but couldn't go without. Only reason I'm asking is because they had a sale today at our local supermarket. 10 for $10 on Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sa...

We're pretty well prepared for this scenario, I'm 100% work from home, except maybe a week or two a year out of town at one of the company's regional facilities. Wife is a homemaker, no kids to worry about. Each of our trucks are 4x4 and has a vhf radio, the most frequent places we travel to locally...

That is a long wire run... this calculator might help. https://www.calculator.net/voltage-drop-calculator.html I have built a couple small alt power systems, actually a couple micro-sized ones and a small (1.5kW solar/wind hybrid) system but nothing close to the distance you're planning. The micro-g...

Not much to report and no earth shattering revalations for sure. Tested a Magic Heat (but don't recommend buying it at that price) can inside a truck with one window cracked 1/4" below the weatherstripping. With no occupants inside the temp (measured midway between the floorboard and the roof) was u...

That's great to hear.

Oh, and thanks for ruining the thread

The wick, TP, will not become involved in combustion as long as liquid fuel is available. You burn the isopropyl for a few min. each hr. 1/2 hr whatever is required to maintain a survivable temp. within the vehicle. Yes you do need to crack open a window to vent carbon dioxide and provide oxygen fo...

The rubbing alcohol needs to be 70%. 80% burns too hot. Remove the core and stuff the tp roll into a quart paint can, available at lowes. When I took hunters safety 2lb coffee cans were metal and worked well. Isopropyl alcohol does not make carbon monoxide when burned. Not sure about the isopropyl ...

I always keep at least one of these (and a lighter) in every vehicle. https://www.beeswaxcandles.com/product-p/cl-btt.htm I've tried a number of solutions for in-vehicle heat (and thawing frozen water bottles) in the event the engine won't run, with little of what I'd call real success. Sterno type...

Escaping a forest fire is our most likely bugout scenario, and having one start very closeby as with your in-laws is the worst case scenario. Give us an hour and we'd have our trucks fully packed, two hours and I'd have the sprinklers on the roof running before we left, but if only minutes then hope...

Seconding what ZMace said. Congrats Halfapint and looking forward to more updates.

if the UK ever had an EMP and it blew all the transformers and connectors in the power grid, that would be it as far as power is concerned. these things are not kept "on the shelf" anymore, okay they might have 1 or 2 in store but not enough to replace them all, also they are not manufactured here ...

That looks good for a 2nd degree burn (unless I'm mistaken) 24 hrs later. Thinking the most damaged skin may die in the next few days? That was my experience with a 2nd degree grease burn anyway, the redness and blisters looked much better in a short time but the most damaged skin began to discolor ...

Sorry, burns suck, speedy recovery wishes. Never tried the Water Jel dressings but the Burn Jel is worth its weight in gold (and only costs its weight in silver...) when it comes to pain relief. What's your/her thoughts on the Water Jel, worth the cost to stock up? And was it still within the expira...