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Cheers! Just the job. I'm not sure when I'll get around to is as it's been pointed out I've been spending like a sailor on shore leave and I need to get the surplus to me stuff sold! Oops!. I need to source some 2/ 2.5mm stainless or at least springy wire. Not so long ago any decent...

Went to the big fireworks display at Southport and hit the Waitrose and Military Mart near Preston on the way over. Stocked up on the tinned haggis which slices and fries lovely and got some look what we found main meals, which worked out well since at Military Mart I picked up cheap a Dutch...

Cheers, I hadn't thought about what stops the berries rolling out. If you could tell us how wide the metal bar that runs width ways is and thegaugeofthe wire I shouldbeabletoworkoutthedimensions of the rest. The bailer is a nice bright orange so will be able to keep track of. ATB Tom

Cheers! I'll see if herself wants one. Looking at it , I picked upacouple of lifeboat bailers years ago thinking to use them as work bench dust pans. Apart from the bent wire "teath" they are very similar in size and shape. I'm wondering if i could cut half the base out and add some...

Cheers! Last night I rather pointlessly made a heavy waxed canvas roll top case to take my shiny new ultra light weight Evernew 570fd mug and lid ti gas stove and a couple of sizes of gas canister. I could stick in a folding spork and some means of igniting the stove. Anyroad I used up...

Where did you get it from if I may be so bold? All the places I'd looked at had sold out. The hedge out back is absolutely snided in haws. ATB Tom

Arrived while I was out, the ti lid for my Evernew 570fd mug, two Kelly Kettle Cool Lips silicone heat guards to go on it ( at 85p a pop much cheaper than the Snow Peak version ) which pop on and off dead easy for cleaning and where the flames may go up the sides and b@gger them up. In the...

Go on, rub it in! Yes that's the baby. I keep looking for a user but the only ones ive seen have been Great War era ones with antique shop prices. Still its nice to know there's still some out there! Cheers! Tom

Not cheap but so well made and designed. The only mod I made to it was add the wired snorkle part of the hood off a issue DPM parka, which I believe was a option they could have done at the factory. ATB Tom

Ordered just now, the proper lid for the Evernew 570fd mug and a Kelly Kettle Cool Lips silicone lip protector to stop me burning my face off. And that, I believe, finishes off my 2021 reequipment project less a dozen Twizle Pegs which I'll order the next time I'm drunk enough to do some late...

As it happens I've a few sacks like that, bought on the off chance they would be of use. Back home they ( coal miners as it happens ) would use them to make rag rugs from and one of the sons threatened to have a go but I digress. I seam to have lost a post in which I suggested a improved...

Not really decided yet, depending on the model and condition 3 to 5 quid? Need to check if the metal scaled one is rare or owt, it's ex Dutch army. I should be putting stuff up this weekend once I've ingested the rules. Atb Tom

Yeah, the stuff sticks pretty well to itself and I was thinking of wrapping a bic lighter in a yard or so of it. The stuff does blow out quite easily but thats just a matter of technique really. I'm also wondering about the viability of getting a square of really coarse, loosely woven sack...

They are very easy to make and they are of course water proof being soaked all the way through. I looked on ebay and you can buy coil candles but they are prohibitively expensive. A Google on "Candles by the hour" will lead you to various coils that burn for a given number of hours and various...

Cheers! Evidentally you can get taper rolls from shops specialising in church candles looks like parafin wax, but wheres the fun in that? AtB Tom

Just a small thing but something I've been meaning to do for a while which was to make some coils of waxed thin natural cord tapers. I found a roll of about 1.5 or 2 mm jute string under the work bench and had a double boiler with a vouple of pounds of freebie beeswax so thought why not? Hemp...

Cheers Scoman, I've got a good load carrying jacket, a SASS Kit Carry smock I had them make in cotton modal so it's still going strong after 30 years unlike the gaberdine etc ones wnich tended to wear out quickly. but I find any jacket is too hot spring to autumn which is why I'm looking for a...

Its looking like it is a Dutch vest for me. They do go up to XL and can be got new overseas for under 30 quid. There's UK sources with new looking vests with sets of used pouches ( not required) for 30 plus postage but the XL ones are DPM not plain olive. Does anyone have one to sell or...

Since I'm finally losing weight and my waist is shrinking at a pleasing rate I've been considering getting something that previously would have made me look even more ridiculous than even my thick skin could take the comments on , a Molle carrier / vest for bimbling around the woods in. I've...

http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1958/components/component_sas.html for chapter and verse. ATB Tom