Well, you may find a stub of a pencil, like a golf pencil. Good for taking down a note on something, but also used for scraping with a pen knife blade for the graphite. An exellent source of a dry lube. The pencil stub will be wrapped with some black electrical tape. That tape was the duct tape of their day. Can hold a lot of stuff together with some of that old cloth type electrical tape.
There will be a stub of a candle in there. Good for a lite in a cabin or something, also good for getting a campfire started. But the wax is also a good lube. Rubbed on a zipper, the zipper will work better, as will a rough screw or bolt. Also drip a bunch of wax on threads of a screw, and it fits tighter in the hole and won't vibrate loose as quick. Sort of a primitive locktite.
There will be some wooden strike anywhere matches, wrapped up in some tin foil. The foil serves multiplle uses. Keeps the matches dry and together, and also can be used for other things.
A few rubber bands and paper clips. Paper clips are a good source of a piece of steel wire for a makeshift repair.
Some spare flints for a Zippo lighter. In a pinch, a Zippo can burn almost any kind of fuel, but when you need a flint, you really need a flint.
A few fish hooks and split shot sinkers.
A few nuts and bolts and washers.
Maybe a little piece of broken off carborundum stone, for touching up that pocket knife.
Some thin but strong twine of some sort. A few yards of it coiled up small.
That tin was thier survival kit. It could change, depending on where they were in their life.
Carl.
There will be a stub of a candle in there. Good for a lite in a cabin or something, also good for getting a campfire started. But the wax is also a good lube. Rubbed on a zipper, the zipper will work better, as will a rough screw or bolt. Also drip a bunch of wax on threads of a screw, and it fits tighter in the hole and won't vibrate loose as quick. Sort of a primitive locktite.
There will be some wooden strike anywhere matches, wrapped up in some tin foil. The foil serves multiplle uses. Keeps the matches dry and together, and also can be used for other things.
A few rubber bands and paper clips. Paper clips are a good source of a piece of steel wire for a makeshift repair.
Some spare flints for a Zippo lighter. In a pinch, a Zippo can burn almost any kind of fuel, but when you need a flint, you really need a flint.
A few fish hooks and split shot sinkers.
A few nuts and bolts and washers.
Maybe a little piece of broken off carborundum stone, for touching up that pocket knife.
Some thin but strong twine of some sort. A few yards of it coiled up small.
That tin was thier survival kit. It could change, depending on where they were in their life.
Carl.
). Pretty excited, while this immigration has drawn out we've pretty much had to put our life on stand still until it approved.
This is what I carry:
