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  1. stevec

    Getting fitter

    Burpees are a right b@st@rd,hateful exercise because it exercises a lot of big muscle groups. The 'navy seal' is an even nastier variant. Good luck with it. I'm back at work so humping my 9kg rucksack the 2.3mile to work and back in 35-40mins. Sweaty at the end!
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    State Pension Awareness.

    I'm in the uss, but to be honest I'm expecting to retire when I die.
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    Hollow Handled Knives.

    How about a cold steel bushman, seem to think it has a hollow handle for putting on a stick. You could make a stopper for it!
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    Hills + radio = fun!

    Nice callsign! One of the women in the club I belong to on gaining her full managed to get a reissue callsign of G5YL. With regards to radios, you may want to consider saving up for a second hand FT817nd, with the 818 being released you may well find them for the 300-400 quid range, hopefully...
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    Hills + radio = fun!

    Hi Sara, are you on the sota reflector? Lots of good info on there. If you think your uv5r is suffering with front end overload on the summit take a look at sotabeams 2m helical filter. I built a pfr3b as an m6 but couldn't use it of course. If you want to learn more code there are apps for...
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    The old Britishblades forum

    VPN rich, VPN.
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    Wayland's Ditty Bag

    Very nice, looks like a fs in there in the first picture
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    Not British made anymore!

    Hendo's moved out to the parkway, so the old factory is empty now. On stuff made in the UK, how about 2 more Yorkshire brands, Buffalo and PHD
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    No cook main meal one packet options

    The stuff that 'tent meals' sell can be reconstituted with either cold or hot water.
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    Trade knives - your thoughts

    Russell White did a fixed blade knife kit back in the day, I seem to think that Stu m gave him a hand with them and that they were in sf100 stainless.
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    The old Britishblades forum

    The three iterations of the BB knife, first is stick tang, second is full tang, third has cut outs.
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    The old Britishblades forum

    Been sent some pics
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    The old Britishblades forum

    I've had a message from stu Mitchell with a load of pictures of the BB forum knife. I'll get some on later
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    The old Britishblades forum

    I remember one of those massively long threads, it got me started on amateur radio, that and a thread on here. Got my full now, but still can't do Morse!
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    The old Britishblades forum

    I just joined the emccu Facebook group, it seems there is some sort of web archive with some of the old BB pages, might be worth a look if the tech/how to articles are available
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    The old Britishblades forum

    From what I recall, the made up knife was sent to Martyn, the one I've seen is a blade blank. Martyn never sent the knife back to stu so as far as I know that was the end of it
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    The old Britishblades forum

    Stew, I can't remember really, what I do remember was it was made from thick steel stock, with a skeleton handle. I can't recall the blade shape. I'll contact stu and see if he will take a picture
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    The old Britishblades forum

    I passed through BB on the way here, at a guess I'd say 02-03 after I got fed up with equipped to survive. I went back to BB later and spent some time there. I use the same forum name if possible, so I have the same name in here, ROF, EM and some others I don't go on anymore. ATB Steve
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    The old Britishblades forum

    Fenix, it's Russell White. He is still quite ill unfortunately I believe. I have a few of his and Stu's knives. I'd like to see the ring too
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    The old Britishblades forum

    I have a couple of the patches somewhere about the house. I've handled the BB forum knife, blade only, that stu had set in motion, it was in truth a bit large for my dainty paws! I do miss BB, a lot of useful threads on modified knives and 'how to' have been lost. I'm on em and rof, a fair few...