Flimsy - Wikipedia
The modern Jerry can is annoyingly a great bit of engineering design.
The Flimsy - not so much.
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The modern Jerry can is annoyingly a great bit of engineering design.
The Flimsy - not so much.
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What year is yours dated??
I think it's 1945 and I still use it. Not bad for an 80 year old bit of kit!Flimsy - Wikipedia
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The modern Jerry can is annoyingly a great bit of engineering design.
The Flimsy - not so much.
Germany 1 - Great Britain 0
What year is yours dated??
Id probably spruce it up , rub it down , give it some paint , give it some love. Think of up cycling it into a classy drinks container
You must be able to do some version of the SAS full kit with more modern stuff. The 2oz tobacco tin does take some beating and has for 100 plus years. There are all sorts of mess tins even titanium about now.
I would not add tinder to my survival kit and rather have trick candles which I give credit to John Fenna for.
I would not add tinder to my survival kit and rather have trick candles which I give credit to John Fenna for.
I don´t have a survival tin but a firelighting kit in my cargo pocket.
This is the content and the pouch it´s carried in.
Tube with alcogel. Storm matches. Esbit-tablets. Telescopic blowtube.
This is the content and the pouch it´s carried in.
Tube with alcogel. Storm matches. Esbit-tablets. Telescopic blowtube.
Yeah - I'm thinking about a little though exercise in finding something and building one - complete waste of my time but keeps me busy.
Just a habit with me to carry a tobacco tin when I was hillwalking a lot. Never too heavy.
Tried doing the same in a matchbox a few years ago from Eddie McGee’s book. The pages from the book I posted on here somewhere. Difficult to copy but did it. Now cheated and it’s in a 1oz tin in the boot of my car along with a metal mug and an old hexi stove container.
Tried doing the same in a matchbox a few years ago from Eddie McGee’s book. The pages from the book I posted on here somewhere. Difficult to copy but did it. Now cheated and it’s in a 1oz tin in the boot of my car along with a metal mug and an old hexi stove container.
Can you cover off what was it the matchbox size one??? ( Hopefully not just matches )
What became the expanded items for the 1oz tin.
No Need To Die Survival Kit contents - "Pencil and paper. Razor blades (2), needle and cotton, safety and straight pins, reflector glass, fish hooks, line weights, plastic water (balloon) bag, rubber bands, small compass, candle, windproof matches, hacksaw blade, (sharpened at one end, and shaped at the other for use as a screwdriver), snare wire, whistle, glucose and salt tablets and if possible a small booklet on survival."
These were the two books picture include the matchbox contents, quite clever for a last minute emergency
Page 2
I found most of it fitted but added a fires steel without handle, plasters, and slightly bigger clipper mini compass
The first book is more for everyone. The second more for children but still useful eg the matchbox survival explained in a couple of pages. Good basic skills.
He did tv shows aimed at children which may be out there somewhere?
The Altoids tin or it local equivalent is a good size for slipping into a pocket compared to a tobacco tin and one can fit quite a lot inside if careful. Craft blade, needles, thread, sharpener, small lighter, a few plasters, pencil wrapped with insulation tape, couple of hooks with small cork, string from coal bags (tough stuff), inner lid has aluminium tape stuck on by way of mirror, small print first aid info sheet, fresnel lens, one of those plastic buckles with whistle and ferro rod, button compass, a teabag.
These kits used to have potassium permanganate, not sure this is easily available these days.
It’s a small tin though so I wouldn’t get too excited about its use as a tea pot
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Not terribly water proof either, could probably wrap in cling film.
Useful as a teaching aid for scouts to have them make their own.
These kits used to have potassium permanganate, not sure this is easily available these days.
It’s a small tin though so I wouldn’t get too excited about its use as a tea pot
.Not terribly water proof either, could probably wrap in cling film.
Useful as a teaching aid for scouts to have them make their own.
This channel has loads of survioval kit videos, and I think he did a modern version of the lofty tin recently, keeping close to the tin and pouch but with modern upgrades
I knew about that site, however, for some odd reason did not look at a lot of his videos.
I wonder about taking something the size of a 2 mag pouch rather than the water bottle pouch I think Lofty uses. With things like a Trangia mess tin or similar could be interesting.
Ive gone down the many smaller pouches for making a slimemr nelt kit, and also for organisation
i did have a kit in a tangia tin for a bit....makes an excellent tin, better than the british army ones in my opinion as has a decent lid, i get all my pouches off aliexpress now, so much cheaper, £1.50 for secent sized pouch. they also do the equivalent to trangia tins, complete with cutting boards and otehr bits
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