>>581309

Copper is better bought as wire, pipes, square and T joints and other such hardware. Also as water bottles (It kills bacteria, as does silver, takes a few hours tho)

Gold can be used in amalgam with other metals for fillings.

Mercury can be used to make mercury salts (fulminant, for det. caps), also field expedient medicine for syphilis.

Silver and Gold will buy you stuff at inflated prices, and also mark you as a target for looters.

Only point of buying precious metals is for a store of value against inflation, or colapse of monetary system.

So trading them back to money after the shitshow is over, or taking them with you when you flee to another country with different money.

If you are going to remain, after you have bought all your preps, including building several bunkers and stocking them, then you may consider puting the rest of your amazingly large fortune into precious metals, to be traded back into money after the crisis is well and truly over.

>>582673

Diesel engines will run on cooking oils, they where designed to run on peanut oil, any cooking oil will do. Modern "injection" engines will clog with straight cooking oil (but you can mix up to about half and half with diesel to strech it), older ones will run fine.

Specially for colder climate and thicker oils, you need to mix a solvent (such as turpentine) or preheat the engine (think electric blanket or space heater, even bed of hot stones heated on fire placed under engine)

Gasoline engines will run on alcohol, in particular ethanol (grain alcohol). Same as above, for moder engines mix it with the petrol stuff with the additives in it.

Alcoholic beverages have a "proof", this proof is 2× the % of alcohol. 192 proof = 96% alcohol, and you should aim for as little water and oil as possible.

Otherwise, see if you can get an electric vehicle (e-bike).

>>585188

>(know how to make crude kerosene from plasic)

Tell us more about your kerosene making ways, dear fellow.

For toilet paper, any piece of paper will do. Say, pages out of an old book or magazine, junk mail. What you do is you tear a piece as large as to suit your preference, then fold it in half, then you rub the halves one against the other, by holding them between your outstreched hands and performing a "handwashing" back and forth motion.this will loosen the surface fibers to make it soft qnd absorbent. If using a plumbed toilet, dispose of it in a bucket, not the toilet. IT WILL CLOG.

On that account, stockpile bleach. Half-fill the bucket with a mixture of four parts water to one bleach. Lacking that, keep a second bucket of ashes/dry sand/straw/dirt mixed together, and scoop some over the soiled paper.

Antibiotics: Fish antibiotics (for aquariums, fish farms) are the exaxt sane as for humans, but cheaper and eadier to get. Look up "Fish Mox".

Any medicine or medical supplies is good to have, and most do not spoil after their use by date, they just lose potency, meaning one needs to use two old pills to get the same dosage than one fresh one.

The army did some studies to figure out which spoil, which don't, how to check for spoilage, and at which rate do they lose potency. Because replacing them in bases all over is a logistics nightmare, and costs a chunk too.

There is a list of basic medicaments, start with those.

Aquire medical books such as The Merk Manual and "Where there is no doctor"

You can download pdfs online (and copy them to laptops, tablets, flash drives, etc), print and spiral bind a bunch of copies, or get lucky and find them cheap or free secondhand. Ask at libraries, they like to "weed" their collections of older versions when newer ones come out. Second hand shops and online, too.

I downloaded many pdfs, and was about to have them printed, when I found a full collection next to the trash containers where people take their trash bags to.

State sales too.

Aquire pdfs / books on medicinal plants too. Many medications are just extracts of naturally ocurring substances. Start growing/collecting/processing them.

Willow bark, including weeping willow (but beware some fake willows) contains acetylsalicilic acid (aka aspirin). You just step it in water or straight chew it.