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11-18-2008, 05:39 PM
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The other weakness is anything to do with growing and propagating plants, any kind of plants. One of the coolest hardcover, non-survival related books I've ever picked up is an Edgar Allen Poe hardback that I cannot date. the Preface by Sherwin Cody is dated 1924, the book is small, say half size, titled "Poe's Best Tales" and published by the Modern Library (Random House.) The pages are frail, and the binding is starting to go a little. The oddest hardcover, non-suvival related book is "A History of Pi" (AmyPi are you out there????) This one is a little larger than the Poe, much newer (1971) and in much better shape, it's a cool little engineering/history romp. (giggle--some may think that's an oxymoron) I can spend hours in a used book store...........
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11-21-2008, 03:22 PM
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If you want to have a knowledge-base for manufacturing effective firearms in the lawless world after the Apocalypse
 , or would just like to better understand how guns work, here you go:How to build your own 9mm submachine gun (For educational purposes only) (The author went to jail in the UK for building one) Quote:
Here's a possibly easier-to-build design for a simple open-bolt homemade 9mm submachine gun. I think it's a little uglier though. The interesting thing is that it could conceivably be made with nothing more than a hacksaw and drill - no machine tools required. You need a username and password to download from this site, so use this one: USERNAME: randomperson5282 PASSWORD: randomperson -or make your own account (that site has a lot of interesting stuff if you like to learn so you might as well) Click "Download" and select "Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)". http://www.scribd.com/doc/3170766/ex...e-instructions Here's some more gun designs from the same site. They are all good reads, although of course assembling most of the guns would be illegal according to the federal National Firearms Act. Make sure you download the .pdf, I have a hard time reading them otherwise. (you need the free Adobe Reader to view these files) Another 9mm submachine gun how-to - this one is quite handsome and built from standard pipe fittings with minimal effort: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6118520/ex...-bsp-9mm-smg-p A .32/.380 caliber homemade SMG: Photo Gallery http://www.scribd.com/doc/6730887/Ex...irearms-Vol-II Homemade Semi-Automatic Pistol (.32/.380) (Appears to be harder to make than the machine guns): http://www.scribd.com/doc/6118867/ho...-paladin-press Home Workshop .22 Machine Pistol (looks like it requires machine tools): http://www.scribd.com/doc/5002026/Fi...-Paladin-Press Home Workshop 9mm Submachine Gun: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6004246/ho...submachine-gun Home Workshop .50 caliber single shot Rifle (looks like it requires machine tools): http://www.scribd.com/doc/6118148/50...-paladin-press Home Workshop silencers: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6004153/bi...orkshop3872154 Expedient Homemade Handgun Ammo and Reloading: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6731930/Ex...arms-Reloading Expedient Homemade Shotgun Ammo and Reloading http://www.scribd.com/doc/6727781/Ex...arms-Reloading The Metral 9mm. Needs a lathe and is more complex than the above guns, but it's as good as any military 9mm SMG. Uses a Sten magazine however. Semi/Full auto with a folding stock and compact design that's reminiscent of a Mini Uzi. Field strippable. Fires from an open bolt. http://www.scribd.com/doc/4746679/Do...-Paladin-Press Some pics of homemade guns: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpos...3&postcount=13 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpos...6&postcount=23 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpos...6&postcount=24 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpos...0&postcount=25 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpos...3&postcount=26 http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpos...4&postcount=27 Disclaimer: For educational purposes only. I have not tried to make any of these guns, also I'm not responsible if you make these guns and get hurt or go to jail.
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11-21-2008, 05:28 PM
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COMBATIVES MANUAL OF THE U.S. ARMY: FM 3-25.150
http://www.selfdefenseresource.com/c...m-3-25.150.php
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11-21-2008, 07:19 PM
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A TON of ARMY, NAVY MARINES, and AIR FORCE manuals
http://stevespages.com/page7c.htm
Looks like a couple gigabytes of U.S. and Canadian military manuals.
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11-30-2008, 09:54 AM
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First suggestion - buy a house - moving is the pits! Second suggestion - rolling shelves. Yes, there is no reason they can't be homemade... http://www.donnegansystems.com/Rolli..._Shelving.html Our divisions technical library at NASA had these and they are really cool! - they also very literally double your floor space. After that, think like a submarine designer. Look up, most high spaces are wasted space in modern housing. After that - look down - most storage on subs is underfoot. (think raised floor like in a computer room). One place I lived, everyone combined their books and we made somewhat of a maze out of plywood and cinder block shelving with a reading nook in the middle. A used bookseller of my acquaintance asked if she could use the idea, to which I replied of course! - Unfortunately, her shop is Internet only. I'd love to see what she came up with. I've actually given a lot of thought to information stockpiling in TSHTF situations. Some thoughts that come to mind... DVD's - especially the double density ones, but the single density ones are more portable to different machines and less expensive right now. Lap top + solar panel or other electrical generating system and you've got a viable option here... (assuming there is no EMP - in which case you're screwed). Large capacity HD's can be external to a laptop - ideally a RAID setup. 1.5 TB drives were on sale Black Friday for $119.00... That's a LOT of data! Converting data to digital media is a bit harder. If it's sheets of paper, there are scanners with feeders that will make fast work of the project. Unfortunately, most things you would like to scan will be books and other bound matter. The first problem is that doing this manually is like watching water boil. The second problem is that most flatbed scanners have a max area of 8 1/2" x 11", which won't accommodate everything. OCR software is getting better, so being able to search is an added bonus. As an alternative to a scanner, a digital camera on a photo-copy stand (can be homemade - The mother Earth News has one set of plans) would be much faster - flip pages and click! Alternately, Microfiche is a time honored method for low mass, long term storage of printed data and the equipment to do it as well as duplicate fiche has been showing up on the used market at bargain basement prices. For portability, and low reproduction costs - nomadic newsletters like Vonulife and Message Post as well as many zines reduce the size of the text and print many columns to a page - or just shrink a 8 1/2" x 11" sheet to 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". I did this with some survival info some years ago and it worked really well. Ideally you would want a credit card sized frenell(sp?) lens to read it - they are a bout a buck, if you can find one. At lease one military manual has been printed on waterproof and tear resistant "paper" - same stuff "write in the rain" notepads are made of and it can be bought by the ream for use in printers. Bit expensive, but if you want something that is going to last in your BOB, it's just the ticket! On used bookstores, WONDERFUL PLACES! - though many are online now. There is a Meta-Search engine that you should be familiar with and use regularly: http://used.addall.com But still, you do find some gems by browsing... As to a '60's or '70's Encyclopedia being "good" - I think we have different perspectives on what "good" is... Much better than the PC junk the put out today, absolutely! - but Britannica took out all the really useful information back in the '20's or 30's sometime - thinks like making your own paint, rewinding motors, building windmills, digging wells and making dynamite. These are as rare as hens teeth - and I still haven't found a set  Along those lines, the CRC striped most of their solubility data from the reference around '62 or '64 - these are a lot easier to find and low cost. The onion skin paper is also a pleasure to read too. The FoxFire books are wonderful! - I'll have to fill in the holes in my collection one of these days. There is a little know addition to that series called "You and Aunt Arie(sp?) that is about how to do a FoxFire project. On picking up library outcasts - yes, library sales and book fairs are always a favorite. Most of it is junk, but there are gems in there. It pays to call around to libraries and inquire when they do these. Likewise, private libraries can be a gold mine. When I worked at COMSAT a message went out one day that the library was cleaning out it's old books and that anyone was free to come down and pick up whatever they wanted from specified carts. I went home that night with a boxful of standard references - many last years edition. The kind that normally sell new for $100 - $150 each! You will also see offers of free books and journals posted on mailing lists for special and technical librarians. On some teachers mailing lists you can sometimes score chemicals and lab equipment for free, or at least the price of shipping. Probably the biggest bummer in this area, is that I'd finally tracked down the only existing copy of a South African paper in the country at a corporate library, only to find out that it had been sent to the recyclers a month earlier for mulching. I never was able to get a copy of that - despite inquiries overseas. On DIY "old" technology sources - yes, Lindsay is a fav! A guy by the name of Kurt Saxon (with a very colorful history) used to collect and print in "The Survivor" and a couple of other books - compilations of old DIY articles and books. These are still available - a few in paperback, though also as a complete collection via DVD. I've seen them on the P2P networks... http://www.kurtsaxon.com/dropship/dvd_sale.htm Note that his original books were 11' x 17", so these are most likely with tiny print. Here are a wealth of links to sources for manuals - on the top, gvmt and mil, at the bottom lots that cover a lot of ground and are just individual collections available for download: http://www.prc68.com/I/Man.shtml The Survival and Self Sufficiency site has tone of info available on all sorts of useful skills: http://www.ssrsi.org/sr1.htm Here is a good search engine for finding gvmt reports: http://multisearch.dtic.mil/dtic/ A DIY library: http://zinelibrary.info/DIY Find out what library has a book you are interested in: http://www.worldcat.org/ Someone was posting about making firearms - this is a particularly good site, but just about everything here assumes you have a machine shop in your basement and know how to use it... : http://www.homegunsmith.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi MIT has a lot of there classes online: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/help/start/index.htm Ton's of stuff here - primarily of interest if you Homeschool: http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibra...tial+Web+Sites These are relief organization manuals - there is some good stuff in there: http://helid.desastres.net/ You can download these books - might be surprised what's in here.... http://www.nap.edu/ As to the comment about not being able to find anything useful on auto repair - try different keywords: "how to", practical, DIY, "Do it yourself" and so on. Also remember that about 99% of the information on the web is in the DEEP WEB and will never be indexed by Google! see here: http://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/gray_literature/ There are literally thousands of gateways! Hope that helps, -t |
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11-30-2008, 11:05 AM
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I have a collection of around 20 to 30 GB of e-books. I've tried to organize them several times but I always get overwhelmed. I think it'd be awesome if one of us put up a members only type website where we could share ebooks and maybe even release a .torrent digest of new books every month or so. My web skills are teh suck or I'd have done it a long time ago.
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Did that almost a decade ago... the friends who helped me move swore they were moving a LIBRARY rather than an individual (and really, they weren't far off). BTW the library has grown since then, but much more emphasis has been put on machinery since I built the workshop. Quote:
But yes... the "submarine" approach is integral to this house (every nook and cranny stores something, and a LOT of shelves have been put up where you might not expect to see them in a "normal" home... the problem in, of course, that a lot of books are for "future use" when/if they are needed, and are not a priority on an everyday basis {but still, you don't want them buried in attic boxes where they cannot be found!}) Quote:
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 Agreed that they did "strip" a lot of info out in the 20's & 30's -- but there was a LOT of solid stuff developed between then and the late 1960's! (Mainly I meant to avoid the "new" ones from the 1990's etc -- they really started "dumbing it down" after the 1968 edition to compete more with the "World Book" adding color pictures all over the place, cutting the articles WAY down, eliminating equations and technical info and putting everything in maybe 6th grade English, etc. (blech!) Quote:
I understand that Libraries need to make room on the shelves (and HOW!) and that clearing out stuff that is NEVER checked out (or even taken down from a shelf and referenced) is the way to go... but still, it is painful to see them discarding expensive (and sometimes rare) technical reference stuff in order to replace it with additional copies of Harry Potter picture books! Quote:
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12-01-2008, 04:41 AM
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On fiche, there was a hand-held reader that was battery operated available some years back. They also have fiche readers that fit in a briefcase (the screen is the lid). A small field microscope or even a kids toy microscope would work or you could improvise something - in olden days, it was common to take a wine glass and fill it with water then place a candle behind it and it would act as a lens - play with positioning and use a wall as a screen.
On reproduction - it's a contact process - but you do need the the film and chemicals to develop it. Considering the resolution of current generation scanner, particularly those that boast the ability to scan slides - it should be possible to scan a fiche and blow it up so it fills one or two sheets of paper. at that size, I would imagine it would be readable with a magnifying glass or the above mentioned fresnel lens. There are specific machines to scan fiche to digitize them - very portable (would fit in a day pack) and on the used market cost what a normal scanner might. Interesting about the 1911 EB DVD - I'll have to look for that again. It didn't exist when I looked before and so I've just been looking for hard copies. There is something about that year that I like... -t |
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