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Survivalists: Are you part of the new subculture?
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| 5/6/11
| Ali Meyer
Posted on 05/06/2011 8:20:22 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: PA Engineer
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Do you have an opinion on the Lorex system."
Not yet. I'll have a look at it and get back to you. Meanwhile, you might like to read this, if you haven't already.
The Collapse Of The American Standard Of Living, Inflationary Depression
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2716995/posts
141
posted on
05/08/2011 10:05:38 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
To: familyop
Thanks. Have it up on the FR read stack.
142
posted on
05/08/2011 10:21:21 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: PA Engineer
143
posted on
05/08/2011 10:28:43 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
To: Kartographer
read through the post on here there are plenty of conservatives fellow Freepers whos plan is to rob you of your stores, now that isnt a sad comentary on things?
They can have all the jars of food that didn't process correctly. I might even set aside a few jars of thiefberry jam just for them . . .
144
posted on
05/09/2011 10:56:53 AM PDT
by
Ellendra
(Profanity is the mark of a conversational cripple.)
To: editor-surveyor
Read through the post on here there are plenty of conservatives fellow Freepers whos plan is to rob you of your stores, how do you explain that?
145
posted on
05/09/2011 4:08:59 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
They may be “fellow Freepers,” but they are in no way conservatives. They exhibit the thuggish mentality and M.O. of the afore-mentioned statist liberal democrats.
Jim will allow just about anyone register here, and he has become slow on the zot when they expose themselves.
To: editor-surveyor
So is a can of beany weenies.
To: yup2394871293
“Dont load up on too many MREs, because five years of trying to live off spoiled MREs may not be a life worth living, if things ever got that bad in the first place.”
The crackers and spread should be just fine!
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
>> “Back before 1975 no one (except me) had a survivalist mentality.” <<
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You’re dreaming!
To: Salamander
>> “Hillbillies dont beg.” <<
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For sure!
Most of the hillbillies that I’ve known are productive and generous to the bitter end.
To: caww
>> “N.Koreans have none.” <<
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They can thank Harry Truman for that fact.
At the end of WW II MacArtthur was ready to roll into China and rout Mao and his fellow thugs, but Truman would have none of it. (the first Jimmah Cahta)
To: ChildOfThe60s
For $14 at Sam’s Club you can buy three cases of 1.5 liter bottles of Crystal Geyser water that will keep for decades.
Of course, you should be drinking that stuff anyway, if you want to live that is, so why buy fake drinking water at a higher price?
To: Ladysforest
>> “I cant see paying starbucks prices” <<
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Starbuck’s doesn’t serve coffee anyway; they sell old burned out tires, liquified and poured into a paper cup.
To: PA Engineer
>> “The FETS in the inverters are a continuing concern.” <<
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I have yet to have any solid state circuitry in an inverter fail. What usually fails is the DC input terminals. If the clamp blocks are not bright and shiny clean, they heat up if you run them for a long time, and the heat is conducted along the silver rod to the circuit board, where it melts the solder and puts you out of business. (not to mention melting the plastic insulators where the clamp blocks go through the case)
To: Eska
Your posts are always interesting..thank you for sharing Eska.
155
posted on
05/09/2011 6:35:16 PM PDT
by
caww
To: editor-surveyor
That’s an interesting factoid...thanks ES.
156
posted on
05/09/2011 6:37:11 PM PDT
by
caww
To: editor-surveyor
Is it better to store water in a dark place or doesn’t it matter if in a room with window sunlight?
157
posted on
05/09/2011 6:40:34 PM PDT
by
caww
To: caww
We have a local guy here where we live and he preaches that it doesn’t matter how much you make, what matters is how much you spend. Sure is a bunch of truth to that notion. Everybody should try to cut back on spending while keeping quality of life intact.
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posted on
05/09/2011 7:47:15 PM PDT
by
Eska
To: editor-surveyor
I was referring to EMP hardening.
I am happy with my old Trace inverters, but had a surprise mode of failure in the system. This was a to ground (and batteries) surge that smoked my monitors (TRI-Metric and hybrid home built) on the DC panel. There was a primary to secondary contact on our line that blew the branch transformer to our distribution leg. Everything worked and clamped as designed, sending everything to ground. Everything on the backup side was shut down during this event, except for the grounding.
NEC requires that your boxes and battery negatives be tied to ground. This is understandable for minimizing potential differences, but would be a disaster during a large EMP event.
The FETS were found to be at risk during this (defense studies). Have gone back and forth with my Electrician (good guy) on this. Separate grounds need to be tied together. Period. There is no way around a grid tie in. Transfer box is grid tied. All junction and fuse boxes are grid tied also to ground. The only solution would be a very expensive throw switch for the inverters negative cable and non-conductive shelving. This won't %100 solve the problem because again the inverters are grounded, but probably will go a long way to reduce potential damage. I hate circulating ground current.
One other thing people who are off grid may want to consider. Water well pumps have long wire runs and home wiring will be an antenna.
JMHO. YMMV.
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posted on
05/09/2011 9:52:06 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: kearnyirish2
Peanut butter and crackers. Oh yeah.
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