I’ve spoken on here about my efforts to reduce the weight of what I carry around with me. My repair kit seems to have been growing in size and weight for a while now. It all fit into a Kifaru ChamberPocket and consists of the hussif and repair kit, zip ties, a few more stealth repair buckles, a patching kit for inflatable seats and mattresses, a Goretex repair kit, Tenacious Tape, some other stuff I think – it had become altogether too hefty a bundle.
Decided it was time to scale back. The ability to mend everything short of a rift in the space-time continuum is swell and all, but it’s just too much. For a little two nighter hike not too far from home, that amount of stuff is just silly. It could be argued (and probably successfully) that even this is too much stuff. The inner tinkerer in me is a tough beast to tame though. This assemblage of stuff is about 120 grams, a far cry from the 540 grams of my other set up. I think that one will go into the INCH bag.
Two perspectives of the contents. Spiralling clockwise in the top picture, and spiralling counter-clockwise in the bottom picture.
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- repair ladder lock
- adjustable stealth buckle
- 2 repair stealth buckles
- 1" D ring
- 2 siamese slik clips
- cord lock
- 4.5 cm x 5 cm marpat McNett Goretex repair material
- 6.7 cm x 7.5 cm sage green McNett Tenacious Tape
- 50 cm of foliage green 43668 webbing
- 8 cm of 1cm shrink tubing
- 8 cm of 1.5 cm shrink tubing
- 8 cm of 2cm shrink tubing
- OD “Canadian” 2 cm button
- 2 OD 4 hole buttons
- OD “Canadian” 3 cm button
- 7.5 cm kilt pin
- 2 5 cm safety pins
- 2 3 cm safety pins
- 5 cm cotter pin
- 3.2 cm cotter pin
- 2 1.8 cm cotter pins
- assortment of needles
- ?m of slate Coats upholstery thread
- ?m of black Coats upholstery thread
- ?m of chona brown Coats upholstery thread
- ? m of gun tape
- 27 mm ID key ring
- 20 mm ID key ring
- 9 mm ID key ring
- 8 mm ID key ring
- 6 mm ID key ring
- O ring for Fenix A or AA flashlight
- 2 15 cm zip ties
- 3 10 cm zip ties
- rubber thimble (I always use these for hand sewing)
- 10 m of 190 lb. cord
- 10 m of 96 lb. cord
- 10 m of 45 lb. cord
- 17 cm x 22 cm piece of OD polyester/cotton blend
I think about the only thing I’m tempted to add to this is a small amount of thin stainless steel wire. There might be some other things I should have in here, and maybe some things I can forego. Time will tell.
wow, that's a very impressive kit. Mine isn't much more than a few yards of duct tape wrapped around a trekking pole!
ReplyDeleteIf I was smart that’s all I’d do too.
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