Survival cards?

Sesoku

Sesoku

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A few years ago I bought a small plastic sleeve that had three or four plastic cards in it with survival information, and on one of them it had a tiny compass that was designed to be set in water to float. I do not know what happened to these, I must have misplaced them. Does anyone know what I am talking about and where I could get these? I don't remember if there was anything particularly useful in the info, they were just cool.
 
Hi Sesuko,

I haven't seen one with the "compass needle to float in the water" but I know that Campmor sells plastic survival cards and I have taped the set inside a 3x5" Rite in the Rain memo pad together with a Fresnel lens.

Go visit www.campmor.com then go to "Survival" and then to "Survival Tools" and you'll see the 5 plastic survival cards by: Survival Cards™ By Lee Nading Price: $4.99.

Cheers,

Bagheera

PS Campmor has lots of nice stuff and I just saw that they changed their website to a more modern look.

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I think Brigade Quartermasters carried those. Will see if I can find their catalog and check.
 
Also, get a deck of Linda Runyun's wild edible plant cards You can get them through Amazon.com. Good pics and information, also you can play regular card games with them!!

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The item you want is available at REI for $3.50. Search thier homepage under "survival cards kit".

 
The old way of doing the compass trick was to magnetize a needle by repeatedly running it through a magnetic field (speaker of your car would be a good source). You then floated the needle on water, just by surface tension alone, or with a small piece of cork or other flotation device. Walt
 
I have one of those! Mine's a Brunton "survival card" with basic survival info, i.e. fire starting, water collecting/purifying, shelter, first aid, signaling aircraft. It also has a Fresnel (sp?) lens, which comes in handy for reading the small print on the cards <g> and for trying to start a fire. The whole kit fit in a sleeve that was the size of two credit cards stuck together. I haven't seen these in stores in awhile. Good luck finding one!

 
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