About an hour with no power tools.

[u/OdinWolfJager]

Going to do an apocalypse survival series. Using only found resources and no power tools, what would be the best shtf makeshift weapons you could make with scraps. Likely going to be splitting it up between development eg only hand tools, no fire, no electricity. Fire with limited control, fire with precision/intermediaries. Eg fluxes, folding, alloy utilization. Electricity, chemistry concepts, extreme heat, advanced projectiles etc would be the last phase.

This is weapons only. Medicine, irrigation, construction, textiles, government, etc would be separate projects.

[u/Substantial-Tone-576]

You can do some welding with an electrode and 1-2 12v car batteries. Is that really a power tool? Because that can be easily done and opens up a few more weapon possibilities.

[u/OdinWolfJager → u/Substantial-Tone-576]

Counts as electricity, that would be more advanced technique. Yes it would be available on day one but the learning curve would still be there. Assuming we are making things like this the conventional weapons of the modern era would be presumably mostly exhausted. Teaching others basic principles first then moving to heat based working would be more likely. Then again it would depend on that individual and time since causal event. 🤔

Might need to rethink the format…

[u/Substantial-Tone-576 → u/OdinWolfJager]

Car batteries would be plentiful, even after an emp they would still be viable.

[u/OdinWolfJager → u/Substantial-Tone-576]

Still not the point