First aid kit
Posted: Sat 26 Feb, 2022 4:34 pmI’ve started to get serious about weight reduction of my first aid/repair kit . It was 570 grams. But with my new titanium tweezers, I’m down to 567grams already!
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Posted: Sat 26 Feb, 2022 4:34 pmRe: First aid kit
Posted: Sat 26 Feb, 2022 5:25 pmGood work Bill. Make sure you weigh the different brands of bandaids too. I saved 3g going from Bandaid Waterproof tough strips to Elastoplast water-resistant plastic strips.
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Posted: Sat 26 Feb, 2022 5:54 pmNot sure if this was tongue in cheek (like the OP), but I’d go for performance over weight.JohnnoMcJohnno wrote:Good work Bill. Make sure you weigh the different brands of bandaids too. I saved 3g going from Bandaid Waterproof tough strips to Elastoplast water-resistant plastic strips.
Some of the plastic band-aids are rubbish.
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Posted: Sat 26 Feb, 2022 7:27 pmElastoplast used to be good, but these days they're rubbish. Bandaid Tough all the way for me, and bugger the weight.
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Posted: Sat 26 Feb, 2022 7:38 pmBill P wrote:I’ve started to get serious about weight reduction of my first aid/repair kit . It was 570 grams. But with my new titanium tweezers, I’m down to 567grams already!
Oh dear,
Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale. Victorinox is the brand.
--------------- I do wonder if I have been red flagged with weight scales that go down that far. These go to a 500.00 gram max.
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Posted: Sun 27 Feb, 2022 1:41 amWarin wrote::Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale.
Yes, but did you ever manage to do anything useful with them? They are so flexible and blunt as to be useless. If tweezers can't pull out a splinter, what's the point taking them?
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Posted: Sun 27 Feb, 2022 9:24 amribuck wrote:Warin wrote::Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale.
Yes, but did you ever manage to do anything useful with them? They are so flexible and blunt as to be useless. If tweezers can't pull out a splinter, what's the point taking them?
I have managed to pull out splinters with them... more than once.Re: First aid kit
Posted: Sun 27 Feb, 2022 11:49 amribuck wrote:Warin wrote::Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale.
Yes, but did you ever manage to do anything useful with them? They are so flexible and blunt as to be useless. If tweezers can't pull out a splinter, what's the point taking them?
I've removed splinters, thorns, glass ... they're adequate for minor problems.