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    Help with tanning rabbit skins

    Hope this is the correct forum, mods please feel free to move and tell me off if it isn’t…. Sooo, got four rabbit skins, soaked in alum and salt solution for a couple of days, then scraped the flesh off. After a week in a stronger pickle they should I see from t’internet be done. Yet when I test...
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    Sold Leather working stuff

    Yes you have a message
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    Sold Leather working stuff

    Just a bunch of stuff I have spare, £15 posted to you, bank transfer only.
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    Withdrawn Maxped Rat wallet as new

    I love the design but just have not found a use for this. AS new, £15 posted to you, bank transfer only.
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    Withdrawn JUWEL paraffin stove now £25

    Bump, £25 posted
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    Withdrawn JUWEL paraffin stove now £25

    Thank you ! Never even heard of them before. Lights automatically if you just pump as there is a bit of meths left, always love that in a stove.
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    Withdrawn JUWEL paraffin stove now £25

    As shown, about 1.5 pints I guess but you can see the dimensions on the pictures. Fully serviced and working, lights up a treat. £30 posted to you. Bank transfer only.
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    Belgian laavu ?

    As ever that is really helpful. Away at present but when home will dig them out and do some measurin. my thanks to all.
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    Joe Brown Woolly hat

    Still got my orange one from forty years ago, the veteran of many Alpine and Scottish winter climbs, Munros and hills. Classic kit.
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    What bit of your kit is a keeper?

    Zebra billies. Dutch oven. Hilltrek ventile jacket. Helly hansen exped weight lifa top.
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    Belgian laavu ?

    OK clever people…….I have a question. A couple of years ago I was at an army surplus place and picked up a couple of capes which buttoned together a bit like the Polish laavu capes do. At ghe Wilderness Gathering a chap asked me if they were the Belgian moon or something like that, I had no...
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    Budget belly busters

    In Interesting……I think it is Elizabeth Luard who has a recipe for stovies which is just left over spuds, roast meat and gravy with an onion cooked very slow and low, also delicious!
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    For Sale Primus 96 in tin

    Now £35 posted.
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    For Sale Primus 96 in tin

    Dated to 1933 this has had some repairs around the pump but is in good condition for its age. I will be delighted if I look that good at ninety and am still functioning! Fully serviced and working, comes with windshield, meths bottle, spanner, and two prickers. Its not the original box but I...
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    What did you buy today?

    Be interested to know your thoughts on that Sir.
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    Berghaus Munro

    Its an interesting point how much kit is made for thin folk. I like Montane but with a 46 inch chest their clothes are simply too small for me, similarly rucksack straps. Its nit just us, a caving friend of mine observed that as most cavers are middle aged with a bit of a tummy its odd that...
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    Lanyard beads

    Yup, invaluable for pacing. A must have for any serious nav.
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    Sold Primus type paraffin stove

    Hi, no idea what make this is but I serviced it and away it went like a good un. Roarer burner, windshield, legs, meths can and a pleasingly solid spanner, in a tin box.It has been soldered as you can see around the pump tube but like I said, works well. £35 posted to you.
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    For Sale RM one pint paraffin stove

    As you can see, a restored and fully working stove in good condition no dings or dents. Comes in box with windshield which has a natty little door, meths can, spanner and pricker. Good clean burning stove. £35 posted to you. No paypal bank transfer only.