Preparedness for when

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AutumnWinterSmiles wrote: »

and loved the link to the Halfords site re the cooking equipment. Will be having a look at that.

If it's for use at home, you can use your current pots and pan, crockery and cutlery, so why spend £20, when you can pop along to B& Bargains, and pick up a virtually identical stove for just £8-99?

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sb44 wrote: »

Do I just pour a bit of meths onto the wadding and light?

That's how they work, but I wouldn't use meths, if I were you.

It's pricey and rather smelly.

Get yourself some Bio-ethanol instead.

It's £5 for 2 Litres, at B&Q.

I use it in my home made spirit stoves.

EDIT: Beaten to it by PP.

Runcorn_Bridge

This has got to be the fastest growing plant/fungi ever.
Yesterday afternoon I cut the back lawn, with my hand mower I hasten to add, two hours later I looked out to admire my hard work and there was a full two inches of it heading to the sky. (if anyone can post a picture please, ta) Right in the middle of the lawn.
I believe the bit below ground, which is golf ball sized, is or was eaten in Germany. Never tried it (it grows at the base of this phallic object and is slimey between the 'mushroom' skin and the ball) for obvious reasons, but I've filed it away for future reference.

Runcorn_Bridge

All sorted now, I hope, new pipe in one section and they lined the other. Job's a goodun, as they kept saying. Thank goodness for insurance it what I say.

Frugalsod

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

That's how they work, but I wouldn't use meths, if I were you.

It's pricey and rather smelly.

Get yourself some Bio-ethanol instead.

It's £5 for 2 Litres, at B&Q.

I use it in my home made spirit stoves.

EDIT: Beaten to it by PP.

If things got really bad could it be made at home? Or would you need to distill it?

jk0

Frugalsod wrote: »

If things got really bad could it be made at home? Or would you need to distill it?

Hmm. I suspect it would take more energy to distill the alcohol than the alcohol itself would provide.

(You might as well do your cooking on the fire you are using to distill the alcohol.)

short_bird

GreyQueen wrote: »

But the coming generations have effectively been conditioned to use money electronically with no thought of the data trail they are leaving behind them.

Which reminded me: all the folks who happily post their location on their social media from their mobile phone but wouldn't carry an identity card.

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Would the ingredients for making Bio -ethanol still be available in a post SHTF world? best to find something that is renewable and still readily found if life changes and doesn't revert back to what we're used to.

Cheapskate

short_bird wrote: »

Which reminded me: all the folks who happily post their location on their social media from their mobile phone but wouldn't carry an identity card.

Interesting - many of my friends do this, whether comments made from home, or when they're out somewhere. They probably don't think about their home location (out on holibobs not as crucial, I guess), but I have disabled it on my devices. Another thing is when they are away, "someone" could clock this and pop along to their home and get up to all sorts of shenanigans - it's like that advert showing crime where all your stuff is and leaving the door open! :eek:

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Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Hmm. I suspect it would take more energy to distill the alcohol than the alcohol itself would provide.

(You might as well do your cooking on the fire you are using to distill the alcohol.)

I also had concerns about the legality of distilling it even if you could make it. Though I suspect that a low grade bio fuel could be made from home waste that could be used for longer term crises. Wood would definitely become unviable in such an extended crisis.