Ensuring post-apocalyptic survival at TL8?

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Originally Posted by Molokh

Ahem, we're talking about maintaining TL, i.e. reproducing techy stuff (at least the essentials of those TLs - i.e. machines, [primitive] computers, plastics, hydroponic farms etc.).

Allow me to roll out my insanely huge collection of DIY insanity.

Primitive Computer Hardware: FabLab a la Gershenfeld can make circuit boards.

http://fablab.marcboon.com/pcb/

A large number of circuit boards adds up to a crude "integrated circuit."

Computer Software: Use Linux and BSD.

Primitive Plastics: Use organic farming to get bioplastics.

Hydroponic Farms: Check issue 18 of Make magazine.

Arduino for home agriculture-
off-grid laundry -
drip irrigation -
solar heating
sustainability
etc.

Machines. Use the Gingery approach to work up to the Factor-E Farm level. Vincent R. Gingery was an American who started with a bucket of sand and a lot of junk and managed to build his own machine shop. He wrote quite a few books about it.

The modern equivalents of Gingery are the folks building open-source machine tools at:

http://openfarmtech.org/index.php?ti...nstruction_Set


They can start with rural junk and end up with:

HABITAT PACKAGE:
CEB Press (brickmaking machine)
- Sawmill
- Living Machines (I think that means water purifiers)
- Modular Housing Units |

AGROECOLOGY PACKAGE:
LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor -
MicroTrac -
Agricultural Spader -
Agricultural Microcombine -
Hammer Mill -
Well Drilling Rig -
Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening -
Orchard and Nursery -
Modular Greenhouse Units -
Bakery -
Dairy -
Energy Food Bars -
Freeze Dried Fruit Powders |
ENERGY PACKAGE:
Pyrolysis Oil -
Babington Burner -
Solar_Combined_Heat_Power_System -
Steam Engine Construction Set -
Solar Turbine -
Electric Motors/Generators -
Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries |
FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY PACKAGE:
Lathe -
Torch Table -
Multimachine & Flex Fab -
Plastic Extrusion & Molding -
Metal Casting and Extrusion |
TRANSPORTATION PACKAGE:
Open Source Car

Originally Posted by Agramer

Youre missing few things here:
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see... ;)

Clearly I failed to communicate my notions of labor economics. Your question would not have arisen if I had expressed myself clearly. I do apologize for writing so clumsily, but I do not change my claim.

Maybe I'm missing out on the communication, but if you think I'm lacking a boatload of data on how to improvise industrial tools, I've got a lot of posting to do.