Things put away this week…….

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Every week or so I like to list a few of the survival & preparedness things that I have been able to “put away”.

4 cans – Bush’s Baked Beans
6 packs – Crookneck Summer Squash, bags vacuum packed
4 packs – Zucchini, bags vacuum packed
1 pack – AA Batteries, alkaline – 24 qty
1 Inverter – 750 Watt

Stashing away survival supplies is something I try to do each paycheck. I treat it as a ritual like paying yourself before paying others by putting some money in your savings account - and only then paying on your debts. Larger items such as generators, firearms, etc will need to be saved for.

Take care -

Rourke

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Supplies | Rourke June 15, 2010

7 Comments to “Things put away this week…….”

By Suburban Survivalist, June 16, 2010 @ 11:57 pm

I picked up a few junk silver half dollars.

What brand of inverted did you get?

A request; an ability to get further comments on this post via email would be great.
By Rourke, June 17, 2010 @ 12:34 am

Suburban –

I haven’t got into silver – one thing I know nothing about but am interested.

The inverter says Black & Decker all over it but on the back it says Vector. I couldn’t pass it up for $35.00. I might check to see if they have anymore.

Regarding being able to suscribe to further comments – I will work to figure out ho to do it. I am still getting used to WordPress.

Thanks – Rourke
By Rourke, June 17, 2010 @ 2:38 am

OK – blog is set up to receive email notifications of further comments from any posting.

Thanks – Rourke
By Suburban Survivalist, June 17, 2010 @ 2:49 am

I had a bad experience with a B&D inverter, but it was a 400W model rather than the 750W. I suggest putting it through it’s paces and see how it does; I waited far too long to do that. That’s a good price and if it works well I’d get more. It may only draw up to 80-100W from the lighter, and you’ll likely need to go directly from the battery to get the full 750W;

http://suburbansurvivalist.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/power-inverters-lesson-learned/

Thanks for adding that feature!
By Rourke, June 17, 2010 @ 1:00 pm

I am planning on building a small back up power supply using a couple of deep-cycle marine batteries, an alternator from an older GM vehicle (built-in voltage regulator), and a small motor to turn the alternator. I would hook the inverter directly to the batteries. Hoping to run a small refridgerator to maintain a supply of insulin for my son who is a diabetic in the event of a power outage.

I will definently test the inverter out and of course one is none – so I would have a back up as well.

Thanks – Rourke
By tjbbpgobIII, June 20, 2010 @ 1:05 am

I have several inverters in the 400 range I bought at a Big Lots store last year and they worked just fine for light. That was all I tried them on. I plugged them into one of those battery jump starters from the auto parts store. I found one last week, at a pawn shop, it is a 1,000 watt for $25. I jumped right on that. I need to find and print out what each of them will control.
By Suburban Survivalist, June 24, 2010 @ 2:45 am

Rourke,
I imagine you’ve read “One Second After” and are preparing accordingly.

One thought is propane-run refrigerators as found in campers. The use head to run the compressor. My grandpa described to me an early primitive fridge that used actual fire once or twice a day to do the same. Perhaps you could rig something up like that?