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topic: SHTF odd skills


TRX
09-23-2010

My skills mostly lie with metalworking and internal combustion. I can cast aluminum, make charcoal, and some other things. Anything else, I have no problem looking it up and doing it.

Post-SHTF, "looking it up" might be difficult after the first winter, when the Masses would burn the libraries to keep warm.

We have a set of the Foxfire books. I ought to allocate some funds and make some purchases from Lindsay Publications. They're the evil crack supplier of retro-metalhead tech.


There's a game called "What (three, or five, or seven) books would to save to restart civilization?" A lot of people cling to "literature" and religious works. My list has:

Merck's Handbook of Medical Information
Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
Foxfire 5 (the one with the gunsmithing)
"The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
"The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli


Those will tell you what to do, how to do it, who to do it to, and how to clean up the mess afterward. I have all those sitting on the shelf.