Le Mouse wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 6:59 pm
I've been feeling a little overwhelmed of late with news and somewhat shite health (still bloody coughing and have pulled a muscle in my back as a result ), so I'm making the effort to get things done that I can, and not think too much about what I cannot control. So this evening a few of those cheapo push LED lights have gone up around the house (one turned out to be a dud ) and I checked my radios can get Radio 2 and Radio 4 on FM as per that article about the BBC preparing scripts in case of blackouts: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/ ... -blackouts. I use DAB radio so I did have to check, and I found that reception is a bit pants round here so out of 3 radios, one just had static on FM, one got radio 4 and one got both.
With the led strips there's not much to them usually a bit of fault finding can usually get them going again
Battery terminals switch and LEDs there's not much to them .
Bet there's going to be a lot of angry people when they fill their generator now then try and pull it off in the depth of winter when the fuels absorbed moisture and gone off in the carb ....
Noticed the cost of torches starting to rise on eBay too
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
I had a think about a wind-up radio but then decided I wouldn't really believe anything that BBC Scotland told me anyway so I'll just leave that.
Had a rearranging of kitchen cupboards and am a bit shocked at my stash. Def hoarding tendencies there
diamond lil wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:03 pm
I had a think about a wind-up radio but then decided I wouldn't really believe anything that BBC Scotland told me anyway so I'll just leave that.
Had a rearranging of kitchen cupboards and am a bit shocked at my stash. Def hoarding tendencies there
Radio Shortbread is okay if you stay away from Call Kaye. Saying that I only listen to the fitba on a Saturday….
pseudonym wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:52 pm
Another mini trangia set and a threaded gas stove to go with it.
Is that a special gas burner? I have a full size Trangia with gas, and a Mini. But I never tried fitting the gas to the Mini.
No just a generic stove. The mini doesn't come with a shield set up like the 25 or 27.
I just place it on the stove like any other pot/ frying pan.
ah, you mean just use the mini pot with a gas stove used as normal?
By the way, what do you use to hold the pots? I can't remember if they come with anything. In the old days we used aluminium grippers. I probably still have one somewhere, but I got a spring loaded one recently pretty cheap.
Mad Scientist wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:32 pm
Knocked up some laundry/ washing up liquid from stewed conker pieces. Worked quite well!
I didn't know conkers have saponin. That explains why I've seen roads with horse chestnut trees look like someone has had an accident with Fairy liquid!
Frnc wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:18 am
ah, you mean just use the mini pot with a gas stove used as normal?
By the way, what do you use to hold the pots? I can't remember if they come with anything. In the old days we used aluminium grippers. I probably still have one somewhere, but I got a spring loaded one recently pretty cheap.
The set comes with it's own lightweight grippers, but I've replaced them with a proper set from Trangia.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
Frnc wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:18 am
ah, you mean just use the mini pot with a gas stove used as normal?
By the way, what do you use to hold the pots? I can't remember if they come with anything. In the old days we used aluminium grippers. I probably still have one somewhere, but I got a spring loaded one recently pretty cheap.
The set comes with it's own lightweight grippers, but I've replaced them with a proper set from Trangia.
Oh I remember the Mini one now, not used it for ages.
Full size one should have come with a gripper I see from looking at the pic on Amazon. It probably did. Can't be bothered to dig it out. Spare is always useful anyway.
), so I'm making the effort to get things done that I can, and not think too much about what I cannot control. So this evening a few of those cheapo push LED lights have gone up around the house (one turned out to be a dud
) and I checked my radios can get Radio 2 and Radio 4 on FM as per that article about the BBC preparing scripts in case of blackouts: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/ ... -blackouts. I use DAB radio so I did have to check, and I found that reception is a bit pants round here so out of 3 radios, one just had static on FM, one got radio 4 and one got both.
people are preparing 
