Recent content by shibafu

That's the one I'd recommend. It automatically plugs in to the various online databases to check the accuracy of your rips, and has strategies to read problem discs. FLAC lossless compression will reduce file size by a third to a half with no loss in quality.

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It's good stuff, for sure. 25-21 UL/D is the set with all Duossal pans. The "Go System GS2000" is a decent Chinese-made alternative to the Trangia gas burner at a fraction of the price.

My goodness, if you think you've got a problem then I'm really in trouble. I've just looked in the kitchen cupboard and I can see: 3 cheap polycarbonate bottles from Decathlon; 3 Wildo Hiker bottles; 2 aluminium bottles from Clas Ohlsen and Decathlon; a stainless Lifeventure bottle; 2 Osprey...

My resolve weakened and I decided to buy both Duossal pots. Well actually, I found buying the two pots as separate items was only about £20 cheaper than a complete 27-23 UL/D set, so now I have two Trangia 27's! Anyway, the answer to my question is that the Duossal pots do seem to come up very...

No, they don't really stack together properly at all. The Mk 2 cup is quite a different shape. Actually even if you stack the Mk 2 cup in the Mk 2 cooker, you still have about 2" of empty space under the cup, so the pair stands quite a bit taller than the Mk 1 cooker + Mk 1 cup. The tidiest way...

I know a few on here have small collections of Trangias... can anyone confirm whether the new production Duossal 2.0 pots stack properly with the ordinary aluminium ones? I have a vague recollection of seeing complaints that they didn't, when they came out a few years ago. I'm wondering whether...

The SOG Powerlock has user-replaceable tools, and you used to be able to buy other individual tools to swap in, though they seem harder to come by now. SOG multitools generally have decent pliers but some of the other tools are iffy. Victorinox do one of their little models called the...

Quite a few pictures along with weights and measures here: http://squit.co.uk/outdoors/crusader2.html My view is that without the original's singular advantage of exceptional ruggedness, there are probably better options than the crusader 2, whatever your criteria might be.

Good to know. I used to buy M&S jeans but stopped when they reduced the depth of the front pockets. I don't understand why they would do it. How much material can it be saving?

It depends how they draft the law. If the law says you mustn't send a knife direct to a customer, then the seller might have committed the offence as soon as they put it in the post box, regardless of where the customer is. Personally I'm more worried about the other direction. It'll be a...

Yes they've cut the pack sizes of the LWWF a couple of times, originally they were 300g then 270g and now 250g. The range is a lot smaller too. They'll disappear entirely soon I expect.

I read a piece in the paper yesterday about proposed changes to the antique firearms laws, I'm guessing that'll be part of the same bill. Currently if a firearm is pre-1939 and of a designated "obsolete calibre" for which ammunition is no longer available, you can own it as a curio without a...

I can imagine that for sales within the UK, this ID requirement might be an easily solved problem. As has been previously mentioned, the Royal Mail could offer a service where the sender can specify that the recipient should have to collect from the post office and present ID. OK for 99% of...

As far as I know this hasn't been tested in court, and while that might seem to be the common-sense interpretation of the phrasing in the legislation, there's no guarantee that a judge would interpret it that way. As we know, the courts have applied some unexpected mental gymnastics to this...