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Some of the new Blitz gas can spouts have been recalled. http://www.blitzusa.com/recall.htm

Sorry, I am using a propane version. Mine is a little older - I didn't find the exact one on the website, so I just grabbed the first photo I saw. I have used the propane one at 9,000 feet in very humid monsoon season, and it worked well. At the telescope, which is at 10,600 feet, we...

I have had the same problem, and finally started carrying my Bernz-o-Matic. It works very well for lighting fires, stoves, and lanterns.

I agree with you, but something with the photo seems a little odd. I think the inside pivot should have a downward force, but the photo shows the metal is deformed up. That has been bothering me a lot.

I am thinking of going down this road, but I want to do some research into costs, etc. Where do you all purchase your radios? Online, or at a local store? I took the practice test online with 0 studying and got a 75. I think knowing some electronics saved me. I'll be studying some more to...

The reel is 3 inches or so in diameter. Perhaps 50 feet?

Seems to me if the arm had a wider base, there would be less stress on the mounting points, which would help both the frame bending and the bushing flex problems. The tradeoffs are you will get more unsprung weight, and a little less ground clearance. Those tradeoffs still may be favorable...

Can you do this? I need to transfer a Super8 home movie to something digital that I can put on YouTube or elsewhere. It is my in-laws wedding from 1968. They never saw the film - we found it in her uncle's house when we cleaned it out after he died. I have a projector that I was going to...

I see photos!

I was debating between "trailernomics" and "campernomics". My wife taught economics last month so economic terms have been floating around the house a lot recently. $100 a month? We paid $10 a month at our storage unit in Flagstaff. Now we have a big enough lot to store it at home, along...

For fun, I did some calculating the cost/benefits of our Starcraft Meteor tent trailer. Before we got it, we would camp in tents about 4 or 5 times a year, for an average of 3 nights. We also took several trips a year where we would stay in a hotel for a night or two. After the first...

I owned two. The first was an 89 that was great and took us to 290,000 miles. Very few problems before 200,000 miles, and problems with stuff just wearing out afterwards. The second was a 93 and it had problem after problem. A lot of that is probably due to a lack of maintenance by the first...

Our 1999 Starcraft Meteor lack particle board, it is made from plywood. The trouble is, it is all stapled together, so it is coming apart anyway. I have been slowly reinforcing the parts that are coming apart. I think a lot of that is to do with the ride - the torflex axle is way too stiff...

You can check for active and inactive claims here: http://www.geocommunicator.gov/blmMap/Map.jsp?MAP=MC although it probably does not have any very recent (last couple of months?) claims.

We got to camp at the base of Spider Rock a few years back, courtesy of arrangements made by TeriAnn. Our guides were awesome, and we got to tour their nearby hogan. Spent two nights in the canyon. I didn't want to leave. One of her pictures:

We were camped at a site in New Mexico, and it was easy getting in. Getting out was horrible, because it started pouring. After it rained an hour, and after we saw how slick the mud got, we decided we should get out before it got worse. It took us an hour to get in, and 3 to get out. Of...

One of our rockhound books had a paragraph in the introduction about how the author learned the limits of a 2wd pickup and traded it in for a 4wd. It also rates the sites on how difficult they are to get to, and how difficult it is to get rocks out. We have found the easy ones are pretty well...

Kellymoe, that is an awesome find!

I can confirm that. We went there a decade or so ago, and when we were on the trail it started raining. Harder and harder, until we couldn't see. We were on a long section of shelf road, so it was scary, even though we had stopped. The areas of bentonite clay get extremely slick. We decided...

The History Channel show Modern Marvels did a whole episode on axes. It was fascinating learning about historic Michigan axes, modern racing axes, and everything in between.