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by Lemne
Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:46 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.
Replies: 1083
Views: 172840

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

I've been replacing things that may be or are going on the fritz. The shredder was making a weird grinding noise and the vac had gone and we were using a borrowed one, have got new now. Our phones are old and have not received updates for a while and mine keeps forgetting it has battery and going to...
by Lemne
Sat Nov 21, 2020 3:45 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.
Replies: 1083
Views: 172840

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

I'm dehydrating cauliflower. Smells a bit iffy in mine today :cry:
by Lemne
Sat Nov 14, 2020 3:56 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Unaccustomed As I Am To Whingeing (Honest!)...
Replies: 24
Views: 4741

Re: Unaccustomed As I Am To Whingeing (Honest!)...

Hydrogen peroxide can be bought from a hairdressing / beauty wholesaler. Boots & many other independent pharmacies also sell it. It's easy enough to dilute down - there's information here - https://www.mychemicalfreehouse.net/2020/03/dilution-table-for-hydrogen-peroxide.html I wasn't aware that...
by Lemne
Sat Nov 14, 2020 1:33 pm
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: Unaccustomed As I Am To Whingeing (Honest!)...
Replies: 24
Views: 4741

Re: Unaccustomed As I Am To Whingeing (Honest!)...

Hydrogen peroxide can be bought from a hairdressing / beauty wholesaler.
by Lemne
Fri Nov 13, 2020 10:20 am
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Bike to charge phones
Replies: 41
Views: 7083

Re: Bike to charge phones

It’s a lovely , low-tech idea, to charge stuff via a bicycle, it really is. Trouble is, it goes against what Ragnar Benson, the old- school survivalist calls ‘“ survival thermodynamics “. That is, more energy in, than you get out. It is if you are using the bike just to charge something but if you ...
by Lemne
Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:37 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Bike to charge phones
Replies: 41
Views: 7083

Re: Bike to charge phones

I've always liked the idea that you can get some power from your bike. Soylent Green was the first time I realised that you could use a bike to power a lightbulb inside a house. In a good programme on BBC in 2009 they powered a whole house using a team of cyclists pedalling like mad! It was on Bang...
by Lemne
Tue Nov 10, 2020 3:44 pm
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Big Berky water filter
Replies: 6
Views: 1726

Re: Big Berky water filter

Has the Berkey a metal or plastic tap? I have heard the plastic one doesn't last long. I'm torn on this as you can buy a stainless replacement tap but you can also buy a plastic tap that has a gauge on that shows how much water if in the bottom tank. I'm hoping the gauge one is better quality than ...
by Lemne
Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:48 am
Forum: Equipment
Topic: Big Berky water filter
Replies: 6
Views: 1726

Big Berky water filter

I'm about to purchase a Big Berkey water filter for home with 2 black filters. Does anybody have one with any tips as to what I need as well as, especially re filters.
by Lemne
Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:44 pm
Forum: Welcome
Topic: Need help to contact a admin
Replies: 10
Views: 7514

Re: Need help to contact a admin

If you click on the three orange bars top left next to 'quick links' and then click on members, the admins are highlighted in bold.
by Lemne
Fri Nov 06, 2020 9:32 am
Forum: How are you preparing
Topic: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.
Replies: 1083
Views: 172840

Re: What Preps are you doing this week? Part 7.

I'm making new masks this weekend. I haven't had my sewing machine out, as work is closed, since the last lockdown. Hoping my enthusiasm builds some by then.