Recent content by Mykos

Ferro rods do oxidize readily here. Especially when exposed to salt water. However, I still use them and keep them in my kit. Being that I am not living out there for months at a time it's not hard to wipe mine off and keep them dry. Of course, a 13x150mm ferro rod isn't going to corrode away to...

I also do this type of operation often on the metal lathe. Both with emery cloth or with cloth loaded with polish. It very much requires practice and caution. I wouldn't let an inexperienced machinist do this without constant supervision. It is the best way to polish the outside of a cylinder...

It's a really big place. It's pretty hard to generalize about a province that has roughly four times the area of the UK. The coast is temperate rainforest. The southern Okanagan valley is almost desert. The interior is boreal. Most of BC is very wet in the winter, and very dry in the summer...

If you mean Winter Harbour, then village is a bit of a stretch. Fishing outpost is a more likely description. You also need to remember that they are in a contest, not a true survival situation. If they bushwack through 10km of forest to Winter Harbour resort and bum some matches and a salmon...