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- Tue Mar 18, 2025 9:57 am
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: I combed my hair,
- Replies: 4
- Views: 208
Re: I combed my hair,
Welcome to the forum; I'm also retired.
- Tue Mar 18, 2025 9:55 am
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: Hello there
- Replies: 5
- Views: 201
Re: Hello there
Hi, and welcome to the forum. Hope you're enjoying being out of the rat race!
- Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:25 am
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: DIY Faraday Cage for important electronic devices.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 761
Re: DIY Faraday Cage for important electronic devices.
With any kind of Faraday enclosure, the seal is all - important. The flap on envelope type Faraday bags needs to be well secured. Such bags can leak with a lot of use as the conductive material can wear. I've used a couple of 5l paint tins (new and unused from eBay), but found I needed to remove the...
- Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:18 am
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: Hello from Manchester(ish)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 276
Re: Hello from Manchester(ish)
Hi, and welcome to the forum. Best wishes on your prepping journey.
- Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:19 am
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Bleach maker
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1124
- Sat Feb 08, 2025 9:23 am
- Forum: Medical and Healthcare
- Topic: Bleach maker
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1124
Re: Bleach maker
Take all safety precautions when working with potentially harmful chemicals. I don't know whether there's some confusion, but I'm not discussing sodium hypochlorite here, and reccommend that you check what I say. Calcium hypochlorite is used in kitchens to disinfect surfaces and equipment, as an ing...
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:04 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
- Views: 26793
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
As far as the garlic is concerned - I decided to buy from proper growers this year, from now on I'll use my own harvest to replant, and I'll report on how that goes, this is a new area for me. When I had an allotment, I used to grow garlic successfully. The soil was heavy clay. One issue with the a...
- Sat Feb 01, 2025 10:17 am
- Forum: New Members Start Here
- Topic: Hello - new member
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1050
Re: Hello - new member
Welcome to the forum.
You're really getting into it and know what you're doing. Best of luck!
You're really getting into it and know what you're doing. Best of luck!
- Tue Jan 28, 2025 11:42 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
- Views: 26793
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
We split all we grow between water bathing, dehydrating, pressure canning and freezing (we also have been experimenting with some of the old fashion food storage techniques). Some products we preserve individually, others are combined also we pressure can full meals which are great to use (as you p...
- Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:08 am
- Forum: How are you preparing
- Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
- Replies: 367
- Views: 26793
Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 12
Also got a anker 4x usb mains charger ordered ... 4x usb outlets from one plug... why never mind shtf and or rota cuts everything seems to be usb charged these days most usb chargers will only have one output so one socket one item at a time... not good especially if youre power supply is time limi...