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Re: Re: Esbit Under Heat Excahnger Yeah, esbit is probably not a good thing for heat exchangers. They tend to burn a bit sooty and thus will reduce the efficiency. Add in that they don't produce a high heat and you get close to ... |
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Re: Having trouble drilling Aluminum I suspect your drill press is not running correctly, as others have said, if the bit is up and just stopping. If you have a mill press, often the chuck will use a morse taper, #1 or #2. On occa... |
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Re: Re: odor proof bags may still do some good Yeah, that is pretty much how I feel. But, this is not a scientific finding. I tend to think that bears do not like human body smells, generally. We stink to many wild animals. (Sometimes, I ca... |
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Re: Sub - 2lbs lightweight internal frame pack -- need market update The Mariposa is a really good pack for mid-volume stuff. For lower volume excursions, usually between 2-3 weeks or less, I use a smaller pack, though (generally the older Miniposa or Murmur.) You m... |
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Re: Re: Re: Power output with inverted canister Roger is correct. Also, around the jet we have this thing called Bernoulli's principle. Basically this says we are trading pressure for speed. This is what mixes air with the fuel, even though ... |
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Re: Re: Re: scent I think that our good experimenter made the articles point. That is, OP sacks don't work as a primary defense for food. Reason dictates that you should NOT sleep with them, ever. Secondarily, w... |
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Re: Re: How Safe Is Your Food? Investigating the effectiveness of odor-proof bags "It's just something that's helpful to a food hang, increases odds that bear won't identify and try to get to your food." Herbert, Yes, I think we can both agree that smel... |
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How Safe Is Your Food? Investigating the effectiveness of odor-proof bags Dr. Jutkowitz, just to close any potential avenues of debate, I would have expected a set of empty bags be included in the same search tests, to eliminate the possibility that the dogs were keying ... |
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Svea 123 vs. Canister Stoves "Sounds more like a digestive problem to me" Ha, ha.... Yeah....I would much rather eat cooked food than have gas. (kidding...) |
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Re: UV Well, good question. Actually, none of the top three water treatments are guaranteed to give you pure water. Filtering (Sawyer fo example), Chemicals(AquaMira or Iodine for example) and Radiation (... |
All Reader Reviews by James Marco
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Klymit Inertia X Frame I picked up a Xframe (full size) a couple weeks ago. I took it out for 5 nights last weekend with my daughter, Brenda. I had a good trip but was unimpressed by the pad. I tried various techniques with... |
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gossamer murmur I have used the old GG G5 pack for well beyond a servicable lifetime. Patching, reinforcing, and repatching...it finaly died and I replaced it with a 2012 Murmur, one of the first off the production l... |
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Trail Designs Caldera Stove Great little piece of gear. Light, easy to use, miserly on fuel. Keeps the heat in on the pot and does a great job of boiling water. I will complain that it does not let enough heat out sometimes...... |
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Thermarest Neo-Air The NeoAir is a good pad, with a fantisticcall price. I have a medium which just fits me at 5'9". I usually inflate this fully while setting up camp, giving it a couple of breaths before slee... |
