No.4603
How do you take it from a prepper LARP to a legitimate strategy and contingency plan? From what I understand, plenty of revolutionaries have had to do this through history to survive. It seems like a very important skill to have in the event that you need to evade fash or rapidly declining material conditions during the fall of capitalism.
Realistically, how do you accomplish this? Even in an extremely generous situation where you have your own land in the middle of nowhere, and have the money to buy supplies (clothing, repair equipment, tools) once in a while, it seems nigh-impossible in the modern era. Not only do you have to survive mother nature and construct and maintain reliable shetler and storage, you also have to somehow secure methods of maintaining gun supplies, food, clothing, information, etc. Most of this seems to demand either a lot of money or a lot of crime (which has its own issues with making the local proles hostile to you)
I'm interested in resources and methods of training survival skills (without getting myself killed like a retard).
No.4604
Dont eat strange mushroms
No.4605
>>4603>plenty of revolutionaries have had to do this through history to survivethey always had support from local communities. You most importantly need a support system
No.4611
See
https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html It's the comprehensive guide that everyone seems to forget.
No.4612
Build a bunker to survive WW3 nuclear shit. It can't be that hard
No.4613
LARP preppers, which dominate SEO on the subject because their conception of prepping is largely based in consumption rather than sustainability, have main character syndrome and want to Minecraft Steve their way to survival while mowing down all the poors for any excuse they can get.
Real prepping would require a cooperative of some sort, and involve permaculture farming.
No.4628
The way you take it from LARP to Contingency is writing it down with quantities.
No.4972
Diesel Generator might be useful, milsurp is usually good.
I Bought a Military Surplus Diesel Generator to Power my House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ChQhIzUXr4 No.4973
>>4972Isn't renewable a lot better? You'll eventually run out of gas.
No.4974
>>4972 Some of the comments are important or interesting to look at:
>Generator tech here, if possible you should avoid running your diesel generator under low loads for extended periods, this can lead to something called "wet stacking". A diesel engine needs to run under load in order to burn clean, under no load conditions you'll coke up the engine and shorten it's life. Simply put, you'll want to run your generator at a minumum 25% load whenever possible, and every so often you'll want to run it up to 100% for a few hours to burn off carbon and spooge buildup as well as verify function at rated capacity. The MEP models had common issues with wet stacking. so run them around a 80% load for around 30mins-1hr at your yearly service date.
>Electrician here; pleased to see that you're adhering to code, and doing a neat, non-lashup job. Attention to detail saves MANY problems down the road. Next: Battery bank + Inverter. Two reasons: 1) initial switchover on power loss is marginally faster, especially if your generator is cold or the outage is a short one, and 2) (more important) You can load up your generator recharging the bank, and prevent carbon depositing in the cylinders - Need to periodically run a generator under heavy load to keep it clean. Downside of a bank + inverter is more cost and more maintenance. If you're NOT getting a bank, consider getting a dummy load that can artificially load up the generator.
>the 400 hertz are for radar systems, namely the SQS-36 Firefinder and ANTPQ-64 Sentinel. Those 10K generators have Yanmar engines and we would run them 24/7 and only shut them down for every 200 hours for oil changes. We had 2 per radar and would switch gens every 200 hours. Each generator would have 4000+ hours on them at the end of a deployment and they would go directly to Toby Hanna Army depot to get rebuilt or what we called a reset. I know those systems like the back of my hand and would by a surplus one in a heart beat.The internal tank is only good for about 8 hours of run time but you can run a line for an external tank.
>The water separator fuel filter you changed at 13 minutes, well, it's a good idea to leave that water drain on there. Especially when filling with jerry cans. If you don't regularly bleed the water out of that filter the ice will blow the bottom of the filter off. If you're interested in some house-bound upgrades, a battery tender, battery blankets and block heater could help in the winter months. If you anticipate running it for a long time (greater than 12hrs straight) you can plumb a 40gal drum of fuel into the aux fuel inlet. Common failure points on these generators are the fuel return line up top, which tends to get porous, batteries, the water separator, as mentioned, and occasionally the fuel shutoff solenoid. https://www.oshkoshequipment.com/products/geninfo/1/MEP-003A>>4973Damn that's a fast response. Solar and renewables are good supplementary power, but unless you live somewhere like Nevada or Arizona, they won't be able to power a full house reliably, especially if you get a period of poor weather. .