Skills:PSK (ITEM 7 IS UP!): A Group Exercise in Creative Thinking and Improvisation

Type III Paracord===> A hunting bolo
A garrote to kill the enemy or maybe a wounded rabbit
I would use it for my underwater cache/stash container as the main attachment line
I would use it as a stringer for trout or to dehydrate strips of meat

Razorblade===>I would use it to slice fish or meat RAZOR thin and dry it by the fire on a rock like the mountain men did
Or I would make a weapon to slash to death a wild turkey
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Flashlight===>I would use my 5 cell old skool, heavy, aircraft aluminum framed, Viton o-ringed, Maglite, "Spotlight To Flood With A Twist Of The Wrist" flashlight with xenon bulb and a secret stash spot in the end cap under the gray foam thingy to crush the skull of a raccoon to eat it's flesh (see above for use of razor)

Aluminum foil====> I would make a pipe for tobacco (it helps with the hunger pangs ya know..) by taking a bamboo stick and using the foil to make a bowl for the tobacco by putting tiny pinholes in the foil in a random fashion...If I had the resources I would line the bamboo stick with bees wax
Or
I would use it to try and make some sort of "solar dehydrator" for the raccoon jerky mentioned above

Radio with 9 volt===> I would use the resistors or capacitors wires to make tiny fish hooks
Mr.Coke1234 has this very,very useful tutorial on 9 volts in a survival situation====>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU69wB0m-Mg&feature=related
Or I would make a flashlight with the radio bulb
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Fishing line and hook===> I would use it sew up any wounds like Johnny Rambo did in First Blood
I always dream about sewing up my own wounds in a survival situation
I would use the fishing line to make a kite to signal my location to rescuers
Maybe I would use it in conjunction with aluminum foil to make some sort of sparkling "signal mobile"
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How did I do Brian?
Do I pass the brainstorming test?
 
Trent Rock said:
Radio with 9 volt===> I would use the resistors or capacitors wires to make tiny fish hooks
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I'm not sure how much exposure you've had to resistors and capacitors, but I don't think the leads have enough strength to catch anything but a minnow. A struggling fish will probably straighted it out too easily. But then again, I've never tried to make a fish hook out of one, so...
 
I'll give this a shot...(Be gentle with me!!:p)

First, I disassemble the radio -

I can use the wiring(once it stripped of the insulation) and try for making steel(okay copper)wool firestarter.. I don't think it'd be long enough for snare wire..

The pc board can be used as a makeshift saw..

Depending on the length of the leads on the components on the pc board I could use them as gorge hooks..


Next the fishing hooks -

I can use them for gigs or as needles for sewing and stitching myself up(if the need arises)..

The razor blade -

I'd find a piece of greenwood to make a handle for it, to limit my risk of injury..

I could then use it to make a bowdrill..


Those are the only things I can think of at the moment...

Tux
 
Nine volt battery and fine steel wool is a firestarter. Might work with fine copper wire from the AM antenna also.

Blunt edges of the razor blade are a flat-head screwdriver; the corner is a Phillips head.
 
Plastic bag. I have never tried it but I have always wondered if it could be made into a fish trap. It might be easier than trying to tie a bunch of sticks together.

It could also be used as a PFD for weak swimmers needing to cross a river and carrying gear with them.

And of course to plug up the massive sucking chest wound I will no doubt be inflicting on myself in the next survival scenario after I was stupid enough to break both legs and one arm while alone in the woods. ;) :p
 
Rain collection, you could rig it to catch rain if you are in an salt water environment or semi arid environment.
 
You can use a plastic bag to make a solar still. A side benefit to the still is that you may trap insects or small snakes for survival chow.

Jeff
 
Would the black trash bag be good for transpiration stills or would a clear bag be better? Think about dark colors and how they take on heat...
 
I've actually thought about the survival uses of a radio for several years. I disagree that a radio receiver cannot be converted into a transmitter. In fact it mostly depends on how old and cheap the radio is, because old and cheap radios, in my experience, are made from thru-hole circuit boards and discrete parts like transistors, resistors, coils, and capacitors. Transmitters are made of exactly the same parts, so if you are lucky you can make radio frequency oscillator out of parts from your receiver:
1) if the radio is similar to the one pictured in one of Brian's posts
2) if you can remember the design of one of the four or five standard oscillator configurations
3) if you can scavenge the parts and a little solder for the circuit board without wrecking the parts you need possibly with a piece of metal heated in a fire like a nail or screw and attached to a wooden handle

If you need wires, you can use narrow strips of aluminum foil rolled between your fingers and then you can make some of your connections by twisting wires together. If you can follow that up with a little solder, then so much the better.

If your radio has an LED either as a "stereo on" indicator or something similar, you might be able to scavenge that, but beware. Putting an LED across a 9V battery will only work for a fraction of a second. They typically have a low operating voltage ranging from between 1.7 (red) or 2.2(green) up to 4.5 (blue or white), and if they are in a battery operated radio, by definition they won't need very much current, so a cheap 9V will tear the guts out of an LED faster than you can react, so you need a dropping resistor. That means you need to memorize the resistor color code mnemonic "ROY G BIV" so that you can find and non-destructively extract a 1K resistor (brown, black, red) or something close to it. The bonus of doing this is that you can make a continuity tester out of your LED flashlight for a little primitive troubleshooting. Afterall, it probably won't work the first time you hook it up and apply power - what prototype ever does?

Also, after you have scavenged parts from your radio to make a low power transmitter, you might be able to make a crystal radio receiver from what is left over, especially if the antenna coil and tuning capacitor are still in tact. Having a high impedence crystal earphone, which use to be very common with small radios, would be very helpful in that case. The razor blade and a piece or pencil lead or a lucky piece of natural crystal might serve as a detector. In WW2 POW camps, Allied prisoners made them all the time with very little help from modern tools or supplies. Those boys would have killed for the parts out of ANY broken radio. They used things like shoe polish cans for speakers, wire from lighting, etc.. A crystal radio doesn't need batteries, so they are freed up for your transmitter, flashlight or whatever. So if you are very lucky and have enough of the right information packed in your brain, you could possibly make a matching transmitter and receiver from a single radio receiver. Possibly. That's all I'm saying.

As a default position, in a worse case scenario, there is an even more primitive type of transmitter called a spark-gap generator. You could do this with even a modern SMT style circuit board as long as the battery and the speaker still worked. FCC regulations forbid it's usage, but everything is fair game in a survival situation. With a little elbow grease, you could scavenge the speaker from a radio along with a bit of metal like aluminum foil for wires and a battery. The speaker cone would have a moving wire attached to it and touching a fixed wire so that when power is applied, the speaker cone pulls in which breaks the power to the speaker. When the speaker is deenergized the cone moves back to center and the wires touch again causing or creating an electro-mechanical oscillator. The theory is that the RF noise causes broadband interference, which upsets a ham, a pilot, or maybe even the FCC enough to have them come looking for it's source - i.e. your SGG. This method, obviously, drains the battery pretty quickly, so you need a way to make and break power to your little transmitter, so that it lasts longer. Forget morse code. I'd use a wind chime kind of arrangement that would cause two wires to make and break contact, thus turning power on and off to the generator without it having to be "operated" manually.

Obviously these are just ideas, some of which I've done, like making oscillators from scavenged parts, making crystal radios, etc.. Some of this is just brain storming. The point is, IMHO it could be done. :)
 
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