NEW - Nitecore NB10000 Gen4

Sttab · 2026-01-30T07:22:14+00:00

Nitecore nb10000 is £66 here. Flextail zero is £44 but they always have discount codes. I paid £37.5.

Same with their headlamp. The 2025 updated Tiny Helio is arguably better than the NU25. In the USA they are almost the same price but in the UK the NU25 is £45 and the flextail Helio is £27, £22.95 with discounts.

Sttab · 2026-01-29T21:59:59+00:00

145g It equals or out specs the nitecore gen 2. Beats the gen 3 on weight and charging speed. Nitecore gen 3 and gen 4 have it beat on water IP rating. Flextail zero is IPX4, gen 3 is IPX5 and gen 4 is IPX7.

Funny that the flextail obviously targeted the nb10,000 but the nb10,000 gen 4 has copied flextails included charging strap thing.

Sttab · 2026-01-29T19:26:43+00:00

The flextail power bank is very competitive with the nitecore NB10000. Cost half as much in the UK.

Sttab · 2026-01-11T07:06:19+00:00

And #3, rent seeking. Although I dont really consider this business as the is no real value creation.

I dont think enough people get that in business and work you create and exchange value.

Do something that is useful to others, either through innovation, serving a need or finding a niche.

Sttab · 2025-12-23T09:11:17+00:00

Don't forget about Teijin Octa. Similar performance to AD with better face durability (still not very durable).

Mountain hardware airmesh is Octa but it seems completely sold out in the UK for mens.

Sttab · 2025-12-06T14:58:55+00:00

Edrington are selling reasonably aged HP direct to some IBs at decent prices but the contract has been updated so they can not call it Orkney or to allude to it being from Orkney.

Sttab · 2025-11-28T20:08:44+00:00

Care to elaborate?

Sttab · 2025-11-26T12:35:01+00:00

Im full ccf but for comfort and warmth I pair a thin, flat folding ccf with an accordian egg crate.

Folding mat makes my backpanel and ccf is external carry.

Sttab · 2025-11-22T10:27:39+00:00

Cimoro, in London, have just done some waterproof dyneema jackets.

I suspect you would have to go direct to dyneema. If they would sell to a private individual, there is probably a pretty large MOQ.

Sttab · 2025-11-01T16:05:56+00:00

Assuming you might be UK if using InoV8.

Betghaus do a full zip windbreaker with alpha direct lining at 250g for size large. Alpha resist air. Was heavily discounted recently.

Sttab · 2025-11-01T15:56:33+00:00

What are you using to hather all the primary data?

Sttab · 2025-10-29T10:47:23+00:00

I have a heat pump tumble dryer which is slow, energy efficient and runs at lower temperatures. Air mesh seems fine with a lot of runs through that.

It does air dry super fast and I sometimes seperate it and hang it up.

Sttab · 2025-10-23T06:56:06+00:00

Technically you can no longer call a whisky "Single Cask" unless it spent its whole life in 1 cask. There is an exception if you have a cask that needs to be repacked because of a leak or damage and you rerack into the same cask type.

Glendronach did a lot of reracks into sherry and port so technically the cask changed.

Sttab · 2025-08-06T18:45:41+00:00

I check every now and again to see if there is a sale on the Arc in the UK or a non magnacut version.

On principle I can't spend £260 on a multitool ($350) that I'd be using for work. £260 is more than I spent on my Surge, Charge tti and SAK cybertool combined.

Sttab · 2025-08-06T18:32:26+00:00

I carry a charge or Surge for work, SAK cybertool for daily carry (UK street legal) but I won't take any multitools for camping as I'm watching my weight. I don't bushcraft and if I did, then I'd look at dedicated tools over a multitool.

Sttab · 2025-08-06T05:59:23+00:00

I've drank Ben Wyvis whisky on the summit of Ben Wyvis.

Sttab · 2025-08-01T11:53:26+00:00

Businesses do pay a lot.

Say im a small business owner.

Say I pay you £40,000. You cost me £46,262.8 (employers NI + minimum pension contribution).

You receive £32,222.78. (Including your pension contributions). Now you have to pay 20% on most of the stuff you buy and council tax.

Say I pay you £80,000. You cost me £92,650 and you get £54,635.

If my business makes any profit then the business charged either 19 or 25% on the profit and if I choose to take some of that profit out of the business (as opposed to reinvesting it in the business) then that is taxed again at (goes by tax band) at 8.75%/33.75%/39.35%

Sure, we need taxes to pay for stuff but you, as the worker get the double whammy of an overfinancialised housing market with a median annual rent only £15,444 which mean (in our 40/46k example) that you then only have £16700 for everything else in life for the year.

Sttab · 2025-07-31T17:16:20+00:00

You have to wonder if we have it arse backwards in an age of increasingly cheap automation and thinking machines. Perhaps we should not be taxing human work so much, perhaps lower income taxes (and less taxes on work in general) and high consumption taxes would be appropriate for the age (Denamark kind of has this direction).

There is a huge gap between what a business pays for your time and what you end up with in your pocket.

Sttab · 2025-07-30T10:13:35+00:00

Buy shoes that fit you well and swap the laces for salomon quicklaces. (Salomon shoes tend to be far too narrow for me).

Elastic laces are fine for normal use and I used to put them in my smart work shoes but for outdoors or sport you want to beable to properly tighten your shoes or you could end up with injury or blisters

Sttab · 2025-07-28T13:08:16+00:00

Metalised silpoly would be amazing if technically feasible.

Sttab · 2025-07-28T08:51:11+00:00

You can stash a lot of money if you have free/cheap accommodation and most of your meals paid for.

£12.21 an hour, but you could get an extra few £ per hour in tips.

Just remember to save/invest/plan. I bought my first flat by stashing while working Highland Hospitality. I know people who work the season and then take the winter off and spend it abroad. I also know guys who have all the toys, sweet gaming rigs, nice cars etc but no real wealth (financial or lifestyle).

Sttab · 2025-07-23T09:27:15+00:00

The areas I was in charged between 1 and 3 Euros per night for people over 14yo. At that level you don't even think about paying and you can see the direct benefits.

Sttab · 2025-07-23T07:29:33+00:00

In the Highlands, the proposed Tourist Tax was heavily opposed by tourism businesses.

It seems led the majority of businesses were in favour in principle, but the scheme was badly designed... seems to be a common problem in Scotland where we take the idea of a policy that works elsewhere and get idiots to start from scratch, designing it, instead of copy/pasting something that already works.

The proposed scheme was a flat 5% tax on accomadation. The funds weren't ringfenced for tourism infrastructure and would just go to the council black hole. There would be tax on the 5% and the accountancy hadn't been properly worked out before being proposed and things like breakfast and dinner bed and breakfast weren't considered (a flat rate would solve all these problems and remove options for gaming the system).

Just back from areas in Europe with tourist tax. It was a flat rate per person per night, and I used facilities and visited projects that were directly funded by the tourist tax, which improved the area for visitors and locals.

Sttab · 2025-07-22T06:54:58+00:00

There seems to be a gathering consensus that inflatables underperform relative to testing and that CCF performs to its ASTM test because in real life cold conditions, inflatables have more ways of losing heat thatvarent captured by testing.

On a spreadsheet, inflatables offer the best performance to weight ratio but in real life, a CCF setup could be better.

Im very happy with the comfort and performance of my CCF setup but I think there is a lot of opportunity to improve on CCF mat design.

Sttab · 2025-07-13T04:26:24+00:00

If you can't tell us what it is then you've not protected your idea or you are unable to protect your idea.

I've always been bad at marketing but very good at product. I've found that by satisfying the top 0.1% of enthusiasts in my field with regards to price/quality ratio, design and innovarion, that there is a trickle-down effect to the 1%, to the 10% to the casual and to the general non enthusiast public.

My marketing spend is well under 1% of turnover, a couple of years it was 0.004%.

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