My advice would be to move to a country with a low civil disturbance
potential and a fewer firearms-to-lunatics ratio before the big 2K, Deanne.
Seriously, people used to do a lot with what they had before the rise of
the Aquarium Goods industry. Tractor inner-tubes for air, or windup
gramaphone motors, or windmills driving oildrum "gasometer" air resevoirs
(sp?).
There are a lot of low-tech ways of doing things. Some of them are in the
FAMA "For What It's Worth" book.
Cheers, Andrew
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andrew at pcug.org.au http://www.tip.net.au/~andrew
"Beware of people who dislike cats."
-- Irish proverb
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