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Q...I have a very similar box I use for electrical supplies...wire nuts ext. Once you get the box set up how you want it, throw a drop of hot glue on the top of those little orange dividers so they don't raise up when you are pulling out a part. Saved me a lot of frustration. Nice ammo collection 
Q™
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Thanks for the tip Drew!
Whichever comes first.
Resist the Snowflake haters or deal with the zombie apocalypse horde.
Whichever comes first.
nayr
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has ammo ever gotten cheaper? You dont have to be planing for the zombie apocalypse to stockpile ammo.. just planning for retirement
Q™
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No idea bro. I bought most of mine between 9/11 and 2006.
Q™
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Got that covered too (packaged sealed inside a mylar bag with an oxygen absorber should still be edible 10 years after I'm dead). No need to eat Q when the hard times come!
nayr
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ive got some buckets full of food and ammo; but nothing quite that extensive..
after loosing everything once to a tornado and being stuck in monster blizzards w/out a gram of food in the house I'm a bit more prepared at this stage of my life.. we can survive at least a couple months at this point but I havent gone all mormon and got my self ready for the end of days.
Since i live in a desert I have a couple 55g tanks full of water in the basement, and I'm about to add a few rain barrels outside this year.. one is full of RO water and hooked to a pressurized RO system for fishtanks/plants and that gets cycled out and refilled automatically.
after loosing everything once to a tornado and being stuck in monster blizzards w/out a gram of food in the house I'm a bit more prepared at this stage of my life.. we can survive at least a couple months at this point but I havent gone all mormon and got my self ready for the end of days.
Since i live in a desert I have a couple 55g tanks full of water in the basement, and I'm about to add a few rain barrels outside this year.. one is full of RO water and hooked to a pressurized RO system for fishtanks/plants and that gets cycled out and refilled automatically.
Q™
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Being ready is a part of being a responsible human being IMO. I have two of those blue 55-gallon food-grade barrels in my basement, but I always wanted to get one or two of these 275-gallon food-grade storage containers with pallet, steel or aluminum exo-skeleton and spigot (if I ever have enough room to store them). I suppose one could put one in the backyard on a couple of cement blocks and throw a tarp over it until needed...but that would denigrate all of my landscaping endeavors
. Hopefully, never a need for all this stuff...eh?
nayr
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yeah I dont think those big containers will fit through my doors to even get close to the basement.. I wanted to get one for a rain barrel but they limit us to two 55g because of water rights.. we just got the legal right to put up rain barrels a few months ago so I suppose I shouldn't complain.. but if I build a shed next to the house I can hide the barrels inside and what you dont know wont hurt you
Q™
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Do you have natural gas Nayr?
nayr
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yeah, though I dont think blowing the roof off my house is a good way to get those containers in the basement
Q™
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If you do you may want to invest in one of these...
Home Power Portable Generators
No gas station stress when the power goes out and you don't have to store and rotate gasoline.
Home Power Portable Generators
No gas station stress when the power goes out and you don't have to store and rotate gasoline.
nayr
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yeah I thought about getting a whole house, non-portable.. natural gas genny.. but they are not cheap, first imna convert my fireplace to gas so I still have heat w/out the need for electricity or a mountain of wood outside.
Ive got a small portable solar generator on my trailer I can use in a pinch, it'll run my DC Fridge, recharge flashlights/phones/radios indefinitely.. If I added a few panels to the house and chained those into it I could probably keep basic electrical requirements during a prolonged outage.
I dont keep gasoline arround, Ive got a 4cyl diesel engine in the garage I could always convert to a generator in a pinch
Ive got a small portable solar generator on my trailer I can use in a pinch, it'll run my DC Fridge, recharge flashlights/phones/radios indefinitely.. If I added a few panels to the house and chained those into it I could probably keep basic electrical requirements during a prolonged outage.
I dont keep gasoline arround, Ive got a 4cyl diesel engine in the garage I could always convert to a generator in a pinch
Q™
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I purchased a tri-fuel generator a few years ago and put it in a very large deck box outside, installed a $300.00 manual transfer switch and ran natural gas to it. But I still stockpile approximately 40-gallons of gas (for the vehicles) with a double dose of Stabil and rotate it every year and a half.
Storing and rotating gasoline is not fun.
Storing and rotating gasoline is not fun.
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nayr
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wow thats an old school ass one Q, been a long time seen I seen on of those heh.. I use my punchdown alot still since they are still widely preferred in server rooms/datacenters..
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Q™
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Just pulling your chain bro. I have a Fluke Networks 10061100 D914S Series Impact Punch Down Tool stashed away somewhere at the office.
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