Saying hello
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MistiqWood
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Saying hello
Hey everyone - been prepping for 5 years, focused on practical skills and minimalist gear. Stoked to share field-tested tricks and learn from the community, especially about water purification and urban-ready setups!
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Welcome to the forum! There's such a lot on here already, but there's always new ways of doing things coming up, and new issues to be faced. Water is one of the most important, as you know, and you might really enjoy getting stuck in on here about it 
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Greetings from Manchester. There's a very diverse group here, from people with a small farm or a place in Scottish highlands, to those with a bugout bag and a few weeks' food in the cupboard. Not sure what you mean by urban ready. I live in an urban area, so hopefully I am urban ready! Regarding water purification, personally I have a couple of lightweight filters, and puri tabs.MistiqWood wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:45 am Hey everyone - been prepping for 5 years, focused on practical skills and minimalist gear. Stoked to share field-tested tricks and learn from the community, especially about water purification and urban-ready setups!
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White Horse
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Greetings from the Essex/Cambs borders
I've been doing some casual experimentation in prepping methods for about thirty years now, my main motivation being the incredibly fragile state of food security in the UK, the lack of strategic stockpiles, the over tight supply lines and miniscule amounts people store at home now.
A major disruptive event that causes internet failure and extended blackouts will see people getting hungry within a week, and when people get hungry, they will do what it takes to find food.
I therefore don't broadcast the fact that I keep a four month supply in my attic.
Back in the early nineties the supermarkets had a price war over tinned beans, and I picked up a small pile of Tesco Value beans for the princely sum of 6p per can. These were not kept in perfect conditions, my attic fluctuates from freezing in the winter to around 50C on a hot summer day, and is a little bit damp. Despite that they survived pretty well, and rust was never a problem. I kept sampling them over time, a few got bloated and had to be chucked, and after ten years they started tasting a bit metallic. The last tin I actually consumed was at 24 years of age, and I dumped the final tins at the start of Covid.
Tinned food keeps for a very long time, but I'm a little concerned that the tins themselves no longer keep as well as they used to, with traces of rust sometimes appearing after as little as two years.
I have an idea to combat this, but I'm not sure if it will work, or if anyone's tried this before.
Metals have a galvanic pecking order, the most reactive will sacrificially corrode to protect those less reactive. Aluminium is near the top of the tree, far more reactive than tin or steel.
I'm therefore embarking on a little experiment, using for starters those tins that don't readily stack on each other, placing thin strips of aluminium between the rows of stacked tins.
- Will this inhibit corrosion, I wonder?
I've been doing some casual experimentation in prepping methods for about thirty years now, my main motivation being the incredibly fragile state of food security in the UK, the lack of strategic stockpiles, the over tight supply lines and miniscule amounts people store at home now.
A major disruptive event that causes internet failure and extended blackouts will see people getting hungry within a week, and when people get hungry, they will do what it takes to find food.
I therefore don't broadcast the fact that I keep a four month supply in my attic.
Back in the early nineties the supermarkets had a price war over tinned beans, and I picked up a small pile of Tesco Value beans for the princely sum of 6p per can. These were not kept in perfect conditions, my attic fluctuates from freezing in the winter to around 50C on a hot summer day, and is a little bit damp. Despite that they survived pretty well, and rust was never a problem. I kept sampling them over time, a few got bloated and had to be chucked, and after ten years they started tasting a bit metallic. The last tin I actually consumed was at 24 years of age, and I dumped the final tins at the start of Covid.
Tinned food keeps for a very long time, but I'm a little concerned that the tins themselves no longer keep as well as they used to, with traces of rust sometimes appearing after as little as two years.
I have an idea to combat this, but I'm not sure if it will work, or if anyone's tried this before.
Metals have a galvanic pecking order, the most reactive will sacrificially corrode to protect those less reactive. Aluminium is near the top of the tree, far more reactive than tin or steel.
I'm therefore embarking on a little experiment, using for starters those tins that don't readily stack on each other, placing thin strips of aluminium between the rows of stacked tins.
- Will this inhibit corrosion, I wonder?
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Hi and welcome from the Cheshire suburbs.MistiqWood wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:45 am Hey everyone - been prepping for 5 years, focused on practical skills and minimalist gear. Stoked to share field-tested tricks and learn from the community, especially about water purification and urban-ready setups!
Lots of info shared here. Please jump in and contribute. All questions and answers are welcome.
So. What are you prepping for?
Graceful Degradation! Prepping's objective summed up in two words. Turning Disaster into Mild Inconvenience by the power of fore-thought
Not Feeling Optimistic. Let me be wrong
Not Feeling Optimistic. Let me be wrong
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Hello and welcome to the Forum.
Two is one and one is none, but three is even better.
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The traditional galvanic rust inhibitor metal is magnesium. But not safe or cost effective in an attic. How about the old seafaring trick of coating them in an oil or vaseline?
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I’m a shelter-first bushcrafter with 4 seasons of deep-woods experience, strong on fire-making and foraging. Keen to trade hard-won tricks and pick your brains on advanced traps or wild edibles most overlook
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I'm not sure whether mixing aluminium and the plated mild steel of food tins will help. Anyone who has worked on old Landrovers with their mix of aluminium and steel body parts knows that rapid oxidisation of the aluminium takes place (white powder). This is aggravated by road salt or general dampness.White Horse wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 2:38 pm Greetings from the Essex/Cambs borders
Metals have a galvanic pecking order, the most reactive will sacrificially corrode to protect those less reactive. Aluminium is near the top of the tree, far more reactive than tin or steel.
I'm therefore embarking on a little experiment, using for starters those tins that don't readily stack on each other, placing thin strips of aluminium between the rows of stacked tins.
- Will this inhibit corrosion, I wonder?
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Hi, and welcome to the forum. Enjoy!MistiqWood wrote: ↑Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:45 am Hey everyone - been prepping for 5 years, focused on practical skills and minimalist gear. Stoked to share field-tested tricks and learn from the community, especially about water purification and urban-ready setups!