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MAKESHIFT WORKSHOP SKILLS FOR SURVIVAL AND SELF-RELIANCE - Expedient Ways to Make Your Own Tools, Do Your Own Repairs and Construct Useful Things Out of Raw and Salvaged Materials
MAKESHIFT WORKSHOP SKILLS FOR SURVIVAL AND SELFRELIANCE Expedient Ways to Make Your Own Tools Do Your Own Repairs and Construct Useful Things Out of Raw and Salvaged Materials Author:James Ballou In today's high-tech society, even the most advanced devices and systems are not failsafe. Tools can break or wear out, batteries can go dead, and all sorts of malfunctions can render the modern conveniences we rely on totally useless. If quick replacements of failed items are not readily available, the ability to improvise and adapt in the work... more »shop suddenly becomes very practical.
James Ballou, author of Long-Term Survival in the Coming Dark Age, dramatically expands on the popular home workshop material in his first book to present a "make - shifter's" way of building and repairing things with only a pile of raw or salvaged materials, your hands, and your mind. In this fascinating new book, he presents a wide range of unconventional, remarkably creative home workshop skills, including:
HOMEMADE TOOLSMake your own hammers, drills, screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers, saws, files, chisels, vises, clamps . . .
EXPEDIENT REPAIRSPerform sturdy repairs with ordinary glue, tape, cord, wire, dowels, nuts and bolts . . .
MAKESHIFT CONSTRUCTIONConstruct all sorts of functional items out of coat hangers, old car parts, 2 x 4s, wooden dowels, nails, rebar, coffee cans . . .
USEFUL PROJECTSBuild a homemade forge out of an old barbeque; handle simple soldering jobs with a road flare; perform quick weld repairs with car batteries, jumper cables, and a pair of pliers . . .« less