August 22, 2014
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59m
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Mark Koernke discussed vehicle preparedness and emergency evacuation tactics, focusing on practical field repairs for automobiles including radiator patching with threaded rods and bolts, tool kit assembly from salvaged and discount sources, and the importance of reconnaissance vehicles and quiet mobility. He emphasized pre-planning for bug-out scenarios, covering bridge failures, ambush avoidance, vehicle breakdowns, and the strategic use of small, maneuverable vehicles over heavy armor. The show included detailed guidance on sourcing affordable tools from Harbor Freight and government liquidation auctions, lubricants and storage greases for equipment preservation, and caller contributions on medical supplies and maintenance techniques.
- vehicle preparedness
- bug out
- radiator repair
- threaded rods
- reconnaissance vehicles
- tool kits
- harbor freight
- govliquidation.com
- ambush tactics
- bridge failures
- lubricants
- pls products
- evacuation routes
- field repairs
- mobility
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Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave. O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each god given right we only watch him tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the 40 newspaper changes name because current one deemed too violent Yeah, well, if there's some panty waste queers from University of Mary Washington, what can we say? Faggots being what they are. Oh my god, it's named the Bullet. We can't have to change that. Oh my god, oh my panty's a-bunching right now. After 96 years, the internal board of the publication recently announced that the 10-page paper would soon be renamed for Blue and Gray Press, as a more benign tribute to the student colors and campus history. Faggots. Actually, they were going to call it the rainbow. Colors of the rainbow, brown through yellow. What a bunch of faggots. But political correctness, that's what that garbage is all about. That's why you need to name a newspaper in the area the bullet. And people will be looking for it. And you can crank out whatever you want because they dumped it. In fact, since it's probably quite heftily leftist, you can produce another paper with the same name with the bullet and even the same logo and have a lot of fun with it. Yeah, oh, that would be perfect. And people would automatically grab the wand, but they'd have no clue what the hell the other one was. And you could probably get away with doing some really fun stuff for at least a couple of months before the Communists would catch on. It won't be too late. Anyway, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Second hour of the afternoon Intelligence Report time, our corny. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, and north. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com. We're on Ultra Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska Homework Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, from the bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico. Water, water. Headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Big Jugga, Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd and 5th pit and our friends in the recall state of Colorado. Waiting for the left coast where we have the great state of Jefferson, we turn back to the east, sweep across plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and land in the Smokies with the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, the Ma'ville Grammar Consortium, bring us the Golden Spike. It is Friday. It is the 22nd of August. It is the 6th year of Open Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation. of America with a K 2014 Old Earth Calendar or Nostradamus Doom Calendar Your Doom gives you a great cop out so you can set your hands and do absolutely nothing. How do you like that? Nostradamus said, really? Do you believe that? Really? Anyway, real quick here, an excellent article that was done on evacuating from your property driving, say from a situation that's in trouble, to a retreat or to a secondary location. It's in the scroll from the trenches, worldreport.com. Guys, you want to go back through there? Our friends in the chat room can repost that for me. Take a look at it. Read the article. It definitely is a must read, as far as I'm concerned, because a lot of people are thinking that they're going to pick the right time to take off. And in fact, even in their area, it might be appropriate, but I would point something out about driving in a crisis time. It's like being a small aircraft pilot with limited intelligence about your forward flight path. or even if you have the information. Remember that you have weather updates and weather changes and your aircraft isn't a jet so you're not traveling in a matter of a few hours. It's going to take hours or half a day to get to where you need to go. Typically pilots run into their problem almost always with an airplane crash because of the last leg of the flight. Weather issues do not take place or wreck the aircraft typically at the beginning or in the middle. Sounds weird, but there's a reason for this. Okay, the pilot has spent aviation fuel, he's spent his time, he's been in the air for 6, 7, 8 hours. Maybe it's a two day jump to get to where he's going. It's a long flight. It's been a longer distance. It's been an excellent flight. The last 40 miles though, now weather is coming in and it may be extreme winds, it could be hail storms, it could be thunderstorms, or it could be just being socked in with no visibility. The pilot may not have much experience with instruments, but the pilot, because we've gone, you know, I've gone that, for that last 40 miles, I've gone 32 miles, I've only got eight miles to go, man, I can slug through this, I can keep her in the air, I can, ehhhhh, I can talk myself into the plane crash. You see? Now on the road it works the same way just because again you had the idea that well, we're taking off now Everything's pretty calm here. I've pretty well mapped out the route Well, did we call ahead or do we have pickets and Scouts in place? Well, no, but yet it's nice here and I call Martha. Everything's okay out at the farm My sister Sally has shown up my cousin Fred are there we're gonna be there. We're leaving right now Well between point A and point B the scallywags have already gotten in their head that everybody else's property is theirs and yours looks like it's the next pile of property that they're going to take. See how that works? In fact, well they really don't care. It's just whoever happens to come down the road looks like they're a choice target. For that reason you need to be prepared to deal with on the road threat but also as we've said if you have breakdowns, if you have to change routes because you actually perceive the threat but end up in the wrong place. Bridge failures are the most common thing that people are going to have a difficult time with and there's two ways you can have a bridge failure. Physically the bridge is destroyed. Remember Kelly's Heroes? Remember Kelly's Heroes where they're watching how the bridge is there? It's there. Oh I can't believe it, it's there and you hear... It's not. Okay. So, don't count on, in fact, always be prepared by surveying if you have large water obstacles. If there are smaller rivers or creeks, look to see if you can find out about the history of fords to include what are called underwater bridges. We have several underwater bridges in the area here. They were built 140, 150 years ago. They're awash, and they used to be the traditional way that you cross several spots on the Huron River. They're still there. New bridges were built next to where they were, but the original underwater bridges are still there. Now, if the water's higher, it's more likely you'll get swept off them and taken downriver. But if you know what you're doing and you use cabling and that winch that you have, it's not hard to stay on that underwater bridge or use a water ford. It's just you add more tools that you have in the toolbox to the project. But there's something I mentioned. Let's say that you ended up in that ambush scenario or you end up getting fired upon and or you have problems on the road. There's a discussion there about the idea of how people that know what they're doing are going to set up ambushes, etc., etc., and what to watch for. Let's say you get through all that and you get on the road another mile and a half and something starts to act up or something doesn't sound right. Something's not sounding right on the vehicle. What do we do? What do we do? Now some things you just probably won't be able to fix so we've talked about wheeling the vehicle off or driving it off out of sight out of mind offloading cargo switching it over to your other vehicles or having to man pack stuff out and cacheing the rest nearby but in a way that it can't be found easily. In other words that's where you need to plan ahead with engineer tools all the other stuff should be on each vehicle and as part of your combat kit doesn't have to be a whole lot of tools but you need some. However, there are a lot of things that may just need to be fixed. Number one most common issue is if the engine overheats, the engine dies, and you've got a big slug of metal parked along the road. A couple of solutions here. One of them is, again, you can either go with large through-bolts, which by the way, one of the solutions going to China Sport Harbor Freight They have all lengths of 1,25,516 through bolts that are 5 inches, 6 inches long all the way down to, obviously, 1,5 inch whatever you want in terms of length. The other is if you want to use through bolts, you need a certain number of those, but some shots can be lateral and long. A deflection round can go up from the base of the radiator and a 45 degree angle through the radiator and can actually cover a space inside the radiator of about 11 inches. What do you do then? How do you secure that effectively to be able to put water or something back in it so you can at least keep the cooling system running? That's where a threaded rod comes in. Now here's a little trick to all of these that you need to remember if you're going to be using this stuff. You can get fender washers, standard size washers, and lock washers for the same price as the nuts, bolts, screws, everything you can imagine. What you do is you get two or four fender washers for every long bolt. You get two or four standard washers for every bolt. And you get at least one lock washer, although two would be a good idea. Why? Better too many than not enough. You drop something in the dark, you fumble it, it gets lost in the mud, and that's all she wrote. Now personally, I could find it if I took my time, but time may be a critical factor here. So here's the thing. You divide up, you divvy up and set on the bolts the battery of parts we're talking about. Example. First you put on a lock washer, then you put on a full-size, you know, regular, you know, flat washer. Then you put a fender washer on, then you put another fender washer, then you put another standard washer, then you put another lock washer on. You take two quarter-twenty bolts on that quarter-twenty fixture, that bolt, and you screw them on. Notice I said two, not one. And every step of the way, we're thinking about something could go wrong. But there's also nice to have spares anyway for other projects. In the future, you'll need all the nuts, bolts, and screws you can find. So now we have one made, but we're going to do several of them. We're going to do a bunch of half inch. We're going to do a bunch of one inch. Go right up the scale. Put these into the kit. Now, they're not necessarily for doing the radiator, but they may be for putting or locking together other parts that have been crunched, broken, damaged, shot, could be any number of different things. For the radiator though, the long stock is really important. Now here's a little trick about using threaded stock because everybody's going to say the same thing. Mark, when you cut off the threaded stock, now you can't really use that stock that well. It's hard to get it to work for you because you've got to dress it and use a trimmer and all that. You've got tap and die sets out there for that reason, but we're not going to worry about that. Why? Well, your threaded stock, which can be a 3 foot rod, 5 foot rod, 6 foot rod, and as I say, the big ones are kind of tough to transport with a vehicle, so you want to keep them a little shorter. And you can buy them whatever length, and of course in whatever cut, or 25, 16ths, whatever. Well, what you do is you assemble the washers and the fender washers and the nuts and bolts, exactly what I'm saying, but you put several on that threaded rod. Now you've got the end of the rod is accessible for your threaded stock to be wheeled on and you do that and you space them out by a certain distance. Put about four sets on in the same way that I described earlier. Now if you have to run that rod through and you are going to lock the washer down from one side and lock the washer down from the other and screw them in place. Before you do that you're also going to use any number of, there's a couple of different options for bonding agents that you can buy in the tube that can go into your kit. Gasket material will work just fine. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. It's going to wear out. It's not going to be perfect, but it's going to do more to fill the hole than anything else. Remember, the metals that are used for the radiators are malleable. So you don't have to worry. They're not high temper steel, guys. They're low grade pot metals. So the cool thing is because they are pretty flexible and articulate, when you run that threaded stock through, they will help to seal. You put the goop on the thread, you run the rod through on whatever angle, only as much as you need to make sure that you can get that washer, the fender washer, which you've gooped up again to and you slap that right up next to where the end of the stock is, to the material, the rod, to the radiator. Put the other conventional washer on and then run your bolt and tighten it down. Now don't crush your radiator. Again, we're just trying to seal this thing back up. Break out Mr. Hacksaw or your bolt cutters. And remember that you don't have to worry about, well, Mark if I use the bolt cutters, I'm going to muck up the other end of my threaded stock. No, not really. Well, yes, you are. But remember, you've already got a nut, you've already got a washer and a fender washer on that end beyond where you're going to cut it. So when the next time comes for you to cut the next section, the middle section of that three foot piece, if you have to use another long piece of stock, then you've got three uses at least out of this. Remember that you'll push it through. You've already got your washers on. You back those off on the side that's still dressed. In other words, it can still be worked off. You run the rod through after you've gooped everything up with the next hole. Run your flag washers, your fender washer along with the other washer and your bolt back in. Tighten them up. The goop is on everything the way it's supposed to. Cut that one off. Now you've still got threaded stock you can access. You've reassembled everything so you've got the nut, the washer and the fender washer closest to the cut point. Because it won't be coming off that end if you use a bolt cutter on that kachunk She's going to be secure those nuts and bolts are not going to slide off that or should forgive me that that that Nut and the fender washers not coming off in that direction Again, this is a think-ahead thing It's not hard to do does not have to be stainless steel can be carbon steel But if it is make sure that you again keep everything dry and clean Most of the nuts and bolts can be put into a bag carrier, but I would also put those nuts, bolts and assemblies in a medicine bottles or whatever long clear plastic containers you can get where you can put a screw lid on them and they're long enough. There's all kinds of juice containers that are skinny and they're long. And for those five and six and seven inch pieces, you want to be able to put as much material into those containers as you can, but you want them long enough they can handle those long lag bolts. And the reason is you're keeping everything clean and dry. Then put that into your ditty bag, your tool bag carrier, your surplus tool bag, with all your patch up kits, your keepers, your pieces of hose, your lesser lines that you've got wrapped up in there. Vacuum line can be in there too. Pieces of fuel line should be in that kit. And also hose clamps. I grab every hose clamp off anything someone's tossing out. I've got a nice couple of coffee cans full of hose clamps. Hey Mark. If I need one, I got it. Go ahead and jump in there. May I make a suggestion please? Go right ahead please. For the longer item. That'll work. The idea behind it is to get it in out of the weather and keep it clean. That's the thing, so it's accessible. The other part about this is remember guys, half the time you're going to be working in the dark. You need to be able to control because one fumble finger and a handful of chiclets on the ground may never be found again. So while you can have loose parts, medicine bottles, you know, the vitamin bottles. Go to your local vitamin shop. I kicked myself in the arse, but fortunately I went back. I saw them and I only grabbed a couple and they were glass. Now, you don't want the glass for the work where you're doing what we're talking about here, but right now green, brown, you can even color coat them. They have clear plastic, many different sizes. They are designed to be airtight because the vitamins have to be protected. So the cool thing is they take a bounce, they are clear, you can see what is inside and you can even have them color coded. They make red, they make blue, they make green. And if you go to any of your health food stores, typically they are throwing some out every day because they either buy bulk and they sell out smaller amounts or they have samples. Or, you know, people rehab them repackage. There's a number of different reasons, but they get rid of containers. So if you either check with them or look to see what they got in the dumpster, out back, you'll probably find some. Or if you ask, they'll probably say, sure, because as long as they say, well, I just need them for small parts and tools. That's all I want them for, just for storing stuff. Then they won't have a problem with that. They just don't want you packaging something up back in their product line containers and trying to tell somebody that you got name brand, fill and blank, whatever it is. They're concerned about product. Otherwise, again, go to the recycle bins. I have found all kinds of even factory containers for tooling. The fact was funny because in BC I got two or three large threading fixtures that were for a CNC machine. Well, strangely enough, I went to the recycle bin and there's these odd blue containers. And the closer I looked, I realized they're the actual transport containing devices for the tools that I just picked up. Now, I didn't have to spend a penny on them. And in fact, normally companies, guys, when they use them, they throw them out, which is what was going on here. Well, now those tools are back in the proper container. It's airtight. It's got a little lubricant in there with them. They're not going to rust. And now they're going up to our machine shops up north. That's how it should be, guys. Prior pamper planting. Now in this case with transportation in the field, the big thing is that stock. Now we're thinking nuts and bolts. That's step one. We use these for the radiators. We can also use these for other things that might need to be held back together. Let's not forget, you know, there's hinges on your hood. There's parts of the doors. A 30 caliber bullet may not get you, but a 30 caliber bullet hole going through a lot of working parts can kind of mess up their whole day. Now that 30 caliber channel, in many cases, shatters or goes through something where there's more than one or two surfaces. Well, here's the trick to that. From the inside out, you push your through bolts through, and then you lock down the nut accordingly, along with your fender washer, to push everything back together. We're not too worried about the outside. I don't need my arm or leg being hooked on the inside. I don't want to have a problem trying to get out of the vehicle when the time comes. Evacuation is a good thing. So hooky spots and wires or bolts or nuts that are sticking out an inch or two beyond, say, the surface area, because I had to improvise. Always remember we want smooth and round and accessible. We want to be able to get past stuff. So again, for temporary, to keep things going down the road, remember from the inside out. That's the basic rule. The other thing, sheet metal screws, self-tapping. At Harbor Freight, they've got a whole category, every size you can imagine, of self-tapping screws. 4 sheet metal screws for the same price. About $1.60, depending on where you are, they're $1.50 to $1.89. In our area, they've jacked them up to $1.89. It's still a steal. Now you do the same thing. Pick a hodgepodge of different depths of sheet metal self-tapping sheet metal screws and this can help you with a multitude of sins and problems should something arise. The big thing is it's a lot less work to get them through and into the material and to work with wood, sheet metal, and even certain types of other, well of course, polymers and all types and they kind of bond stuff together. Something's not quite holding, something's starting to fall off, you take a couple other components. And Mr. Battery powered drill is your friend. One of our, actually, Captain Monahan, one of the things that he does, and I highly recommend this guy is, well Mark, what about those batteries? Keeping those batteries charged up. How am I going to keep those batteries charged up in my car? I'm going to put a little, why am I going to spend $100 in another electric drill to put in my car and keep it there separately? Well, why do that? Why not go to the restore or resale shops, wherever you have in the area? And you've got these older 12 volt or 14 volt variable speed battery powered drills that people throw away to the restore shops or to the resale shops because the batteries don't work. But wait, there are 12 volt systems. And if you open them up, you'll see there's two connectors, a positive and a negative. And if you take a black and a red line and you solder and then secure those two lines to the inside of the base of that drill so that they don't just jerk out, make it so it's rugged, and on the other end of those lines, and I would do about oh, 12 to 15 feet, probably 20 feet to be safe, I put a couple of alligator clamps And rather than worrying about the battery-powered pack being bad or being down, I simply lift the hood. And there's a 12-volt battery under the hood. And I take this used drill that I don't care about, and I can put this in my kit. And there's many different sizes. I don't need anything that's going to be able to pound through cement. I just need something that works faster than my fingers. And you know what, most of them have a hand chuck now, they don't even have a key, the ones that have been around for 25-30 years now. So I can go right to the restore right now and buy anywhere from 10-12 of those things sitting there. In fact I did buy a couple of them the other day but I actually have batteries for those that I got from another location for free and they work just fine. So, again, if you go over and look at the junk you got laying around, remember that old black and decker you bought? It's a 12 volt and it has an internal battery and the batteries went dead and you didn't want to fiddle fart with it because it was 10 years old. Well, open it up and where the battery pack is, take the battery pack out, then take a nut bolt and screw and make a keeper to hold your lines. Drill a hole for the two black and red line. solder the one end to your leads for your battery connect, then run your cord obviously through, make sure it's secured so it can't just be pulled out. There's all kinds of keepers and retainers you can get from the vacuum cleaner industry or from your hardware. for keeping those lines secure so they can't be pulled through. And then you've got a 20-foot extension line and you've got those two alligator clips, one red for the red line, one black for the black line. And now I have an electric power tool that I didn't spend any money on that I can leave a dollar store rack of drill bits in my screw kit. Oh, that's right. I can go to the dollar stores here, and they've got these nice little, oh, 10, 12, 20-bit drill bit sets. The one store went out of business. They had these really nice ones that were actually quasi-rodium covered, et cetera. They're fakies, but they work. I just used one on a project the other day. It saved me a whole hell of a lot of time, because that dollar pack of drill bits was in my toolkit. I have them all over the place. Why? Because the one time that I use it, it pays for itself. I spend $1 worth of time just thinking about it. And I'd spend a lot more time if I didn't have the drill there and I had to drive somewhere to get one. Now in this case, I can afford to have all my emergency kits set up with a drill. drill bits. By the way, come on, think about it. As far as drill heads, you know, like screw, tap, you know, hexagon, you name it, whatever shape you want, buy the bucket load. And not China Sport necessarily either. I go to the restore or resale shops. The stuff comes in all the time. It's not as pretty. All of them are in working order. But in fact, many cases like the one I got the other day, I had an entire index with all the different heads. Phillips size, straight blade, self-tap. you name it, hexagon, safety screw type and that little red holder went right into the screw bag with everything else. It's on standby. So again, Prior Popper Planning prevents piss poor performance, gives you the tools you need. Now I've got an engineer bag or a small kit that can stay with the vehicle but if I need it, I've got it. especially for building tactical trucks and or pieces of equipment for future road warrior kind of use. Now being playing road warrior ain't going to work. In other words, you only do that when all else fails. Otherwise, you're going to be the stealthy, sneaky, you know, sneaky Pete thinking kind of guy. Your whole unit is. One of the comments that was made, which was intelligent in this article that's on FromTheTrenchesWorldReport.com talking about automotive use, Guys, reconnaissance units, the two things are mobility and quiet. And we've got a lot of ferrets, we've got a lot of Saracen armored cars, we even have some Saladins and some of the Salamanders. And what's really cute about these is that one of the things that was first noted by the units that originally were issued them is that these were, number one, highly automotive vehicles. That means they maneuver well. But the other factor was very quiet. Now, motorcycles. We've talked about this on the air, but I will remind everybody, we're going the other way with motorcycles. If you're using bikes, you want to put the biggest, quietest silencing system on that bike you can. You want it to purr. We're not worried about anybody hearing us because we're worried about safety going down the road. That's when you have traffic time. This is where you have reconnaissance and you have support personnel. Light four wheel vehicles such as the little quarter ton trucks, the little gators I guess could be used, though they won't keep up automotive with the other vehicles. So it's going to have to be something that's a small car that's been modified out, or a Jeep type vehicle, or for instance, a brat. The brats, I mentioned these the other day, we've used quite a few of these, and there's still quite a few hanging around. And they make excellent little light mech reconnaissance vehicles, guys. You're going to need pickets to the front. You're going to need pickets to the side and rear guard. That has to be a policy across the board. And actually, there's a discussion about that in the article, but this is something we've discussed for years. The idea behind this is that, again, when traveling, you may not travel in one column on one road together. You may actually be moving through an area, exfiltrating as a force. Remember that by observing from a greater distance with lighter pieces of picket equipment that aren't drawing attention, you're able to move in and out of the area quietly and you're able to move where other things can't, which is a critical factor. Even with modern armor, you know, we make the Abrams tank or they make the Leopard main battle tank or they make fill in the blank, whatever kind of armored vehicle. Guys, the German army makes the ferret. They make the weasel. They make vehicles that are armored, vehicles that are so stinking small that they're the size of a small SUV or even tinier. In fact, they're about the size of a small minivan. Yet they're fully tracked and they are fully combat worthy with enough teeth to knock out a tank, especially the tow launcher version. They are able to knock out a main battle tank but they can also siddle down through back streets. They can go through back yards. They can fit in corners. They can fit down alleyways or down narrow streets that the big vehicles can only think about. All they can do is stop and stare. See how that works? Especially if they can't see you, they can't shoot you. So, shooting and scooting and being small and out of the way has a big advantage and militaries have embraced this idea for years. They usually forget it when they're into big bucks, you know, peacetime spending, and then they relearn that there's a family of vehicle needs and they, of course, can reconfigure accordingly. Your tax dollars and expenses and the Shuster bankers make out like bandits. But as it is, These basic tools, including for instance, progressively collecting tools for every vehicle so that you have a wrench kit. You don't have to go out and buy top dollar, but you can get top dollar wrenches if you're patient. Let me give you an example. You might have a heavy truck, a big truck. You bought a one toner. You're going to need some heavier wrenches for certain components. Maybe you're using a semi-truck like we've talked about. Not all semi-drivers have everything they need, but maybe you've got the tools for your own vehicle, but you're planning on putting together a support vehicle of some kind. Probably the best example for heavy stuff, and I mentioned this many times, govliquidation.com, www.govliquidation.com, www.govliquidation.com. And again, that's www.govliquidation.com. Now, why did I bring them up? I mean, you can, oh Mark, I don't want to do anything with the auction. Well, that's not what I'm talking about doing here. Now, as a matter of fact, if you go to Uncle Sam's Retail Outlet, go to govliquidation.com. I'll bring you up on this. And then there's a section there with a pair of boots, and it says Uncle Sam's Retail Outlet. Let me give you an example where you don't have to buy You're buying brand new but you don't have to pay top dollar. And if you cherry pick from all these sites, Proto Professional, half inch drive, 5-16 socket, sale price $1.19. Guys, you aren't going to touch that socket for $1.19, not a Proto tool. These are brand new. In fact, let me give you an example here. They have that 15-16 socket and let's see what the They have 167 of them. They're brand new in stock. And it's free shipping. So that is $1.12 flat rate. That's everything. This item qualifies for free shipping. Now, I've mentioned this many times, but this is where you go to places like this. We're going to go to Gov Liquidation first, and the sales section, and then go over to the clearance section. And if you go down the list, you'll find tool after tool, see if they make sense. And we've got to be careful. Eventually, they start getting up into the crazy price range on some things. But here's an example. A KAL speed handle, half inch drive, $3.59. That's a speed handle. Rather than a drill, if you don't have hydraulics or air, guess what? Crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank, crank Well, it's kind of nice. Somebody can be cranking while you're working on the next one breaking it free. Oh, teamwork. That would be a good idea with heavy stuff too, wouldn't it? Yeah, you probably got more than one person there. Don't have them stand there with their thumb up their arse and staring at you going, when are you going to finish? We'll finish sooner when you help me. How do you like that? Oh, that might be a good idea. So again, prior to proper planning and having the tools on hand, you can work out a complete wrench set. I just got a whole bunch of industrial box wrenches. Total cost was like $1.50 for a handful, about probably $20 or so. And again, both ends are a different size. One part was a machine shop number set. The other part was an English standard. I get metric too, as needed. Just a matter of being patient and watching for the stuff as it shows up and watching for what people are throwing away. Because people do goofy things. Don't correct them. Take advantage of it. Don't hesitate. Don't think twice. Just do it. Take it with you. Anyway, on the tools, the important thing there again is especially guide tools. Here's another trick right now. Go to tractor supply or go to Harbor Freight tractor supplies typically have markdown sections. Every quarter the computer tells them what they're going to get next and they don't have a choice because it comes from the main company. Combination wrenches. Right now they've got a combination variable like a crescent wrench on one end and it has a box, forgive me, it has a crescent wrench on one end. The one that's most common right now that they're getting rid of has a half inch ratchet drive on the other end and the handle. It's a combo tool. Well, a combo tool is really nice because it means you carry less tools and get more tools for the weight carried. Another thing they've got is a crescent wrench, variable adjustable wrench head with a pin guide. Now guys, if you're into heavy trucks and trailers and you're doing work outside and it's at night, a pin guide means that when you have it back up, back up, OK, hold it right there. and you're almost there where you've got to put those guide pins or those safety pins in place. Well, the handle it goes down and it's tapered, you manhandle that a little bit, then you can run your bolt or you can run your safety hooks through and you're done. If you're running bolts through, initially use that guide, wiggle and jiggle, then turn it around, run the bolt, run the washer, washer on, and then run the washer and the nut for the other end. And you've got one of the two wrenches you need to tighten everything down. Oh, so there might be method to the madness there. Again, in thinking in advance, if you have a heavy weapons or a heavy vehicle section, tools for each vehicle is especially good because you will also eventually be separated. It's not an if, it's just a when. It's the way things work. At some point, you're going to be somewhere else. Counting on everything being piled up on one vehicle, certainly you do have some pieces of equipment that are better outfitted than others. but everything has a hand tool that can be used, some hand tools that can be used. It doesn't have to be the best and most expensive. It's kind of like a Swiss Army knife. You know, Swiss Army knives are very well made and the tools that are attached to that Swiss Army knife are very effective, but they're also, because of the way they're built, they're not real fast, but you know, if you keep working at it, they'll keep doing the job. So as an adult, you have to stay focused and keep doing the job. It's just tedious. It's just dull. It's just that there's nothing exciting about it. That's all. But it can get the job done. Now the other section here we mentioned is cutting tools. Again, tractor supply, harbor freight have bolt cutters. Every vehicle should have at least a small pair of bolt cutters. It doesn't have to be real fancy. It doesn't have to be the best. The idea is that if you have, for instance, cyclone fence you want to cut through or barrier fence you want to cut through. If every vehicle has a small set at least of, wow, that's right, bolt cutters. snip snip snip snip snip goes a lot faster when you've got two, three or four people cutting. See how that works? And you're in a hurry. You want to get out of the line of fire. You're trying to get away from trouble. You're trying to circumvent a checkpoint. You're trying to maneuver around things. cutting tools including saws. Now nice if you had a power tool but you may not so a hacksaw would be a good idea with a number of different quality blades. This is one of the few areas where I argue you can have a cheap handle, whatever will hold the blade, that's not a problem. But spend some money on the hacksaw blades that you need. Spend the money on the blades. Make sure again you have a variety. Understand and make people understand that your toolbox has a variety of tool options. Don't just grab something and assume that that's what you want to use. It's not that hard to change blades in a hacksaw. The other thing is other pioneer tools, combination of your tools. Obviously shovel, pick. In addition to that, don't forget a sledge of some kind, at the very least a couple pounds. Bigger is better to have if you're working a bigger piece of machinery. Also an axe for obvious reasons and a brush or again a bow saw of some kind. Right now at Harbor Freight they've got a combination of a couple of hand cutters and a bow saw for $6.99. can't beat them over in the markdown section. They've got them down right now and they're all over the place. So what you do is when they get rid of their old stock so they can replace it with the exact same thing for the next quarter or something similar, grab the tools when they're marked down. You'll have a pretty diversified toolbox in hand within a very short period of time. Now we're not talking about a machine shop in the field, however you can actually accumulate some pretty decent tools where people, mostly where people are passing away and the people who of course are inheriting the stuff don't have a clue, never worked with their hands in their lives. Well they did when dad had them at home, but then all of a sudden they go into catatonic brain fart and don't have a clue. When that happens, the stuff goes to the, you know, either to the trash or to the curb, which is the trash. and or goes to a donation site of some kind. Sometimes they're smart enough to put the stuff out there. Sometimes they just turn around and throw in the trash. Because they don't have a clue what they're looking at. So you got to keep, be diligent, and even though you find stuff, you always know that, man, if I found this here today, how many more things like this were thrown away yesterday? Man, think of the wealth we could have had and put towards the effort. That's why you need to be diligent. We're headed towards the top. Do we have a caller before we go any farther? Don't leave anybody else. Anybody else? Sorry about that. OK, hopefully I've given you some ideas. Dollar store, cheap is fine. Remember, stainless, if you can get stainless, fantastic. Maybe you've got a source for stainless. I didn't say to exclude stainless steel. I love stainless steel. Whenever I'm working on vehicles, guys, if I can switch something that's a secondary fastener out, to stainless steel I do. And the reason for that is just down the road I'll probably be the one turning the wrench on it. Now if it needs a hardened bolt, I'm not just going to change something out on the motor. I'm going to use the best quality I can there. And stainless of course typically is good quality. But if I'm putting for instance sheet metal together and body parts together and two parts that are part of a fender or a bumper assembly and I'm going to put it together and obviously I've had to do work or I have to take it off because there's a step in working on the engine where you move body parts or you have to undo the frame or cover points, well, why not put them in stainless and make them stainless so that there's no possibility down the road that they're going to be a problem when you have to disassemble something and you save time. You already had to take it apart. Since you're going to put it back together, either A, make sure you do the best you can to clean everything up, give it new surface, paint where it needs it. When you put it back together, it will come apart. Well first, it will last much longer just by doing basic maintenance. And then if you're the next one to do the work on it, which is as likely as not, it'll be that much easier to do. And you know it's not going to be rusted up. And you're going to get garbage in your eye, frustrated because you got busted knuckles, which is going to happen anyway when you work on vehicles. It just always happens. You're going to slip. It's going to happen once or twice. But at least it won't be because something doesn't want to come apart. Snap! And I recognize that sound. That bolt feels like it really wants to turn a lot easier now. And it is, it's just spinning freely and if I regrab my fingers it just comes right out of the channel and look it's shorter by half an inch. Oh don't you feel good? Yeah you know what that means don't you? What do I do now? Well, it varies depending on what it is. Again, improvise, adapt, and overcome. Be prepared to deal with the problems, guys. And that means being creative in the process when the time comes. Forgive me other than that If we have any other any other ideas or questions eight if you want to call in You can do that of course you might be listening if you've got any suggestions seven one two four three two zero nine zero zero and the room number is nine five seven four six four pound sign nine five seven four six four pound sign and Excuse me. Ah, thank you very much to JD from the trenches world report calm Will you die getting to your bug out location? That's the article on from the trenches world report that I was referencing earlier again from the trenches world report calm forward slash Will you die getting to your bug out location? It's very well written. Take the time and read it. Again, assume is a very bad thing. And just because it's really warm and fuzzy, looking out the door and down the road where you are, doesn't mean that between point A and point B, there can't be a lot of other points that are created by other people's interference that aren't in the plan. They're in the option issue because you're all scared to deal with it, but not part of the plan. I didn't plan on this happening. But you have to, again, be operating with enough forethought and foresight to perceive the possibility of threats and to be prepared to deal with them. Well Mark, that's why I've got my small arms. Well that is part of the reason you do have the weapons. But there's a lot of other tools you may need because unlike Hollywood, nothing ever goes the way it's supposed to. It's how it is. The fickle finger of fate when it comes to stuff being busted. If you're lucky, you feel really well amazed and happy if you get from one end to the other even after you've had to deal with a firefight or again dealing with an aggressive situation where you've had to drive offensively. Man, I got through that, we got to the other end and we're all one piece and everybody's here and woo hoo, that's the way I like it. But there are a whole lot of other things that can happen. Remember, don't be frustrated by the idea that you are blocked. The big thing is secure what you have, put everything under cover as quick as you can. First of all, don't leave the vehicle out in the open. Try to find a place where it can be stashed to get it out of sight. And then, don't just start wheeling stuff out of the back of a truck and throwing it at somebody because prying eyes from a distance, people see people moving and they get curious. When you're debarking equipment from an abandoned vehicle, use common sense. Keep motion to a minimum. Try to conceal the action. Move to an area with the equipment where it can be put even more so out of sight, out of mind. Cache it. Mark it on the map for your own purposes. Everybody understands where the location is. abandon the vehicle and abandon the material and proceed to your final destination, the location that was originally planned, with whatever transport and material support you do have. If you have to leave on foot, you leave on foot. If you have bikes or if you have drag-along hand carts, For instance, we've talked about using golf caddies for years, very simple solution. The golf caddie will allow you to move stuff not so much across country, but certainly down trails, paths, secondary roads, two tracks, that kind of thing. And that means you can move that much more with you rather than leaving material behind. Now the plan is to come back and recover if there is any kind of stability. If that's not possible, but if you have effectively cachéed the material, it then becomes an in-transit emergency station out of policy. Anyway, we have a caller. Who do we have? Jump in there. Hello, it's Russell Cholkin. Go ahead, sir. Hey, yesterday you were talking about your medical bags. A little found trick for bad lacerations, punctures, and impromptu amputations was a sack of flour. Just a little handful of flour and bind it up. It'll help coagulate it, keeps it clean, and you can debrief the wood pretty easy with the flour in there. Yep. That's one thing. The other thing on your tool kits, never seize. You can get little bottles of it. Anytime you take something apart, wire brush it, throw some never seize on it, and you're good to go. And next time it'll come apart a whole lot easier. Exactly. Thank you. Again, that's one of the things I hadn't even touched on in my old week. We've talked about it as lubricants. And also, again, specialized either binders or lubricants that allow us to work with the equipment, to reattach, detach, and reattach with ease. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well, we are back. Very good. And again, that's the whole point, guys. I hadn't touched. Lubricants, of course, are a subcategory, but a primary category. One of the things that we need to remember, oil doesn't go bad on the shelf. Oil for the vehicles, no, synthetics are a different story, but even there synthetics are so well processed unless you've done something really funky in storage, they should be good indefinitely. specialized lubricants. Here's another thing about that, like I said, a small tube of guys once again remember do what the military does do layers take a little peanut butter jar take your lubricants especially your small where you know containers where you can be if you're able to take it and squirt it and squeeze it or where it's in a toothpaste type tube put them all into another container a preferably something a little thicker wall that's big mouth so it's easy to get in and out. A little trick on that one I mentioned earlier a lot of the Vitamin, plastic vitamin containers are very heavy gauge. They are designed to bounce. One of the reasons is because a lot of these guys that do workouts, well what do they work in? A gym, they take the stuff with them. It's in their bag. It drops. What's in a gym in a workout station? Steel, iron. The stuff has to be able to take a bounce and remember it's going to be almost always hitting a hard surface. So the cool thing about the containers is they're actually engineered for the environment, which means that you can take those lubricants and individually again, put them all, pack them all up into the container. It goes in the ditty bag with all the tools and everything. When you need it, you've got it. Now the other thing is greases. There are a number of different greases that are out there that are industrial. PLS does a whole family of industrial greases that are marketed for farming, but they're especially marketed for oil rigs. Oil rigs are not usually in fresh water. They're in salt water. Most of the PLS products are guaranteed for two years in submersion in salt water. So, you're looking at a pretty good product, you're looking at durable, in fresh water it's almost indefinite. And since we're not planning on immersing anything, if we use these in certain areas where we need lubricants, we're looking at indefinite usage, indefinite retention. The other thing is that also PLS makes a bunch of storage greases that are used for protecting metals. If we have spare engines, I know a lot of guys typically, one of them was big Louie down the road here, he made a fortune. He was collecting vehicles, he was a record driver, but he was pulling engines from the 50s, the 60s, and the 70s. When he decided to retire, guys, he had every barn and every chicken coop and extra pole barns. Virtually the floors and the racks and the walls to the ceiling were full of classic Chrysler GM. and Ford big block engines. Do you think he was comfortable in his retirement? Guys, there's engines I looked at in there I haven't seen in 30 years. Well, the thing is that if you were storing engines to back up what you've got or parts, the PLS lubricants put on everything, it guarantees to completely block in salt water any moisture you're from making contact. We did this with our Miller, several years ago we had Miller mills and bench drill systems. We bought them and got them for a great price from the DOD and also from the University. We couldn't put them online right away. We took PLS, bought cases of it. I can attest to the fact that while the one press was in storage virtually open air in a barn for four years straight, a regular hit-proof barn guy is an old one, 1880s barn. When we degreased it virtually no oxidation anywhere. It looked in fact better because lubricant of course permeates the metal and it was already repainted and the thing was already built. All the chucks, all the fixtures, everything was covered with this PLS lubricant slash storage grease and it worked incredibly well. I will testify to that first person. Anyway, we are at the top and not only that but first person is going to get out of here because we've got Ed taken over. It's Friday, it's Quartermaster Friday, Quartermaster. Anyway, remember supply and support guys. We've got to have the 5-10 programs up and online. The bad guys have really puffed down. Have you noticed that they made a big issue of the whole thing in Missouri? But it's like, oh, whoa, whoa, we need to have you killing Arabs right now. We need to get your minds overseas. Let's go kill Arabs. Let's go kill Christians in Syria. That's how they're doing that right now. Don't think about the border. What about the border? Don't think about the border. Don't think about the border. You don't need to be thinking about the border. Remember the border is important. No, no, we need to go kill people overseas. No, we don't. We need to take care of our own country. We need to employ our own people. We need to make sure our country is secure. Do that. You're going to have to make it happen. That means you're going to have to clean the socialist out of this place and get the job done right, guys. So let's prepare for war. Let's see, militia town hall meeting coming up next. We should be hearing the music in a minute here. 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