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 Always fancied making a pop can stove do they work and are they a viable alternative to gass?? 
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 Mine your own titanium... breed your own silkworms... I mean... c'mon... the whole idea of BUYING your gear is that you get to spend more time in the outdoors and less time hacking your fingers off and wasting time stuck indoors!
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 Always fancied making a pop can stove do they work and are they a viable alternative to gass?? Yes. Come and ask any questions you have on this thread.
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 Mine your own titanium... breed your own silkworms... Spot on, Paddy. Some people just don't get the whole 'division of labour' thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_labour Mind you, according to Franz Borkenau, it was a great increase in division of labour occurring in the 1800s after the Industrial Revolution that introduced the abstract category of work, which may be said to underlie, in turn, the whole modern, Cartesian notion that our bodily existence is merely an object of our (abstract) consciousness. Don't you hate it when that happens?
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 Paddy: whilst I like to spend time in the outdoors, sadly, I have to work during the week, otherwise I wouldn't be able to spend time in the outdoors (or I'd be spending all of my time in the outdoors, cold, hungry and destitute). So I spend my evenings creatively, towards outdoors activities. Jake: some people like to design and make things. I agree that it's not economically efficient, but my spare time is free, and it does mean that I get things exactly as I want, and not how someone else has made them. > it was a great increase in division of labour occurring in the 1800s after the Industrial Revolution that introduced the abstract category of work Nonsense. Even hunter-gatherers have to 'work'; hunting, gathering, tool making. Introducing agrarian society reduced the amount of spare time people had. As technological developments occurred, specialisms arose; smith, weaver, potter, cooper, wheelwright, butcher, baker, candlestickmaker... All the industrial revolution did was to impose regulation on when work periods occurred, driven by the need to keep up with the machines.
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Hmmm... "the need to keep up with the machines" That sound like me running down the last bit of the hill in order to get the last bus home!
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Here is a list of books I have about making your own gear
The First book (Make your own Camping Equipment
Robert Sumner)
which I 've had since 1981 is in my mind still the best of the Bunch.
Make your own Camping Equipment
Robert Sumner
Drake Publishers
USA
1976
ISBN 0-8473-1152-x
How to make your own Lightweight Camping & Hiking Gear
Vick Roling Hines
Tab Books Inc
USA
1981
ISBN 0-8306-9632-6
ISBN 08306-1314-5 (pbk)
Lightweight Camping Equipment and how to make it
Gerrry Cunningham
Mararet Hansson
Charles Scriber's Sons
USA
1976 ,1959
ISBN 0-684-14262-7
ISBN 0-684-14261-9 (paper)
How to make your own Camping & Hiking gear
S.Blackwell Duncan
Tab Books Inc
USA
1978
ISBN 0-8306-9907-4
ISBN 0-8306=1014-6 (pbk)
Making Camping and Outdoor gear
David Platten
David and Charles Publishers
UK
1981
ISBN 0-7153-8023-0
Backpacking Equipment, making it and using it
G.R.Birch
Blandford Press
UK
1978
ISBN 0-7137-0875-1
Gear for the Outdoors and how to make it
Hazel Constance
Robert Hale Publishers
UK
1982
ISBN 0-7091-9630-X
Sew & Repair your Outdoor gear
Louise Lindgren
The Mountaineers
USA
2002,1988
ISBN 0-89886-057-1 (pbk)
Sewing Outdoor Gear,East Techniques for Outerwear that works
Rochelle Harper
The Taunton Press
USA
2001
ISBN 1-56158-283-2
The Essential Outdoor gear manual ,Equipment Care ,Repair and Selection
Annie Getchell and Dave Getchell Jr
Ragged Mountain Press
USA
2000 ,1995
ISBN 0-07-135712-2
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Adam
Smamit Packs, Rosh Pina , Israel.
Worker, Designer, Cutter, Sewer, Salesman, Boss, Owner and general dogs body.
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 Having been prompted by Trev to have a look at the site, I couldn't help but laugh at this idea for home made bicycle panniers. No good leaving a bike equipped such as these in a UK park, they would end up full of plastic bags of dog poo!
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 Which must be why - big clue there, Tony - I didn't flag up every single diy idea on there, you see!  That design as is would also fill up with water when it rains probably, would it not! Unless you drilled holes at the plastic bins base, and then put a diy cloth bag handmade around them maybe, and then they would no doubt work out quite well, for a while at least. Not a good example of diy ingenuity of design though I will grant you. And might I say, not at all typical of most designs for diy outdoors stuff by any means whatsoever. It should be said!
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Good post there Smamitman, good to see you on the forum, and a big welcome. Nice to see somebody from Israel using the site here!
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G'Day and Shalom Trevor,
Yeh I've being reading here for quite a while, there is a lot of good info,
I've being making custom made Rucksacks and Military Kit since I was 13 in
New Zealand at school and then after my demob in Israel I started my workshop Smamit which means Gecko in English
If People on the forum have Questions about where to buy fabrics, how to make things etc , I'll give it a go to Answer them.
Yours
SmamitMan
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