funky gear found

I'm really trying to get through the whole pack rat therapy thing. Ironic I am a pack rat, eh? ;)

I had this Vietnam-era plastic box that was the shell for a Hot-Wet (Jungle) Tropical Survival Kit, used to have it on the dining room table and tossed pocket change into it. :D

Where'd it go? Wifey put it somewhere. She won't throw my stuff out, but she will put it in a closet. Hahaha!
 
I have one of those books. It should have a piece of mylar in the middle to be used as an emergency signal device.
 
Just askin' but how safe is that bottle gunna be to rely on? being plastic and at least 20yrs old.
Is it gunna leak precious water?
Leach toxins into you through the precious water?
Carl
 
That little blade was made right here in Providence:thumbup:

Good find BTW.
 
warrigal said:
Just askin' but how safe is that bottle gunna be to rely on? being plastic and at least 20yrs old.
Is it gunna leak precious water?
Leach toxins into you through the precious water?
Carl
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I would be more concerned about it leaking than leaching. Just like all of the panic about second hand smoke. Both of my parents smoked, if it is a death sentence then I was a goner from birth, dead child walking, doomonyu.
 
I like the Alsatian Cross on the knife. (It was the symbol of the French Resistance during WWII), although I assume they just put it on to make it look like a SAK.
 
warrigal said:
Just askin' but how safe is that bottle gunna be to rely on? being plastic and at least 20yrs old.
Is it gunna leak precious water?
Leach toxins into you through the precious water?
Carl
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reason I tossed them in the Trash:thumbup:
 
Yeah dead right I ment to put leaking in there as well.
I suffered Asthma as a kid, hospitalised several times over the years.
By the time I was in my late 20's I wasn't living with people who smoked ( side note dad smoked) I was working in a smoke free enviroment ( opposed to Night clubs) and my asthma disappeared, almost.
Carl
 
When I was talking about secondhand smoke, I was talking about cancer, not asthma. If secondhand smoke is such a killer, I was condemned from birth, that's the point. Cancer doesn't just go away... :D

The point is, there are many things in our environment over the years that have been slowly killing all of us and it's reached the point that I don't think you can really do anything about it and looking at certain Nalgene or soda bottles or milk jugs and being terrified of them is just about pointless. The water we are putting in it out of the tap has more nastiness in it than the stuff the bottle is "leaching."
 
i use a folder just like that for my fork when i go hiking... is there a brand on that info card? it seems pretty neat!
 
mas1388 said:
... is there a brand on that info card? it seems pretty neat!
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If you Google "american outdoor safety league - emergency/survival handbook" which is what the orange booklet calls itself, you will get pages of links. Somewhere in there may be a valid source still selling them. :)
 
I had a couple of the HUGE "Hobo" knives when I was little. Campbell's Pork and Beans over an open fire with the spoon from a Hobo knife is something every little kid should experience. :D

I have never seen a Hobo-type knife this small. It will go good with my soda-can alcohol stove kit for eatin' Nissin and other noodles. :)
 
During WW II, Winston Churchill said "We each have our cross to bear. Mine is the Cross of Lorraine."
(He was referring to Charles de Gaulle. :) )
 
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