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It's a 1990 Saab Turbo Saloon, they are getting pretty rare. It'll become a summer only car for me. Though in a way it's kind of a shame, they where built to handle the snow like no other. I'm hoping I can drive it to my uncles funeral on July 1st, he was a saab enthusiast most of his life, I can on...

Still up in the air but I think it's pretty certain, after midsummer weekend I should be owning this

Still working on that fucking car above. Things always take so much longer than thought, doing the painting now, a whole science there too. But suffice to say I put 2k epoxy on it, after I do the sanding work. Of course then you get occasions like now and you notice you still need to sand after prim...

Welding rust, was just gonna do a little patch which ended up with replacing half the bottom of the sill.



And I'm out of gas. Le sigh

TIL that there is a venomous sea snail that uses insulin as venom to put it's victims into hypoglycemic shock
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-res ... n-insights

Scientists are very interested the properties of it's very rapid acting insulin.

Here's a photo of a smörgåstårta my SO made, she's vietnamese but really has the hang of proper smörgåstårta


My dad makes gravad lax for christmas


I like it on sweet brown rye bread:

Sounds like gravlax to me, but you don't rinse that afterwards, just scrape it and it's kinda salty and thinly sliced. One of the few fish things I can stand, I really don't like fish or seafood otherwise. AHHA! Another TIL from yesterday!! Gravlax is SMOKED. This was just ... pickled... for lack o...

Sounds like gravlax to me, but you don't rinse that afterwards, just scrape it and it's kinda salty and thinly sliced. One of the few fish things I can stand, I really don't like fish or seafood otherwise.

Finally, it works! I made the last component, an adapter 1/2" BSP to M22x1.5 (Kränzle) and took it for a quick test and boy howdy that's a powerful pressure washer! https://i.imgur.com/LZOo1t7h.jpg https://i.imgur.com/GSCN9eW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PZQia3Sh.jpg I'd say it's at least as powerfu...

Got a photo from my kids teacher. It was about how David enjoys writing on the chalkboard so much he does it on breaks, he has autism spectrum signs as well as ADHD (I probably do as well, should get it diagnosed, someday, procrastination is a sign). The reason I posted was just I am glad to still t...

Cut enough wood today to use up said bottle and the saw ran really nicely, and it wasn't nearly as hot as with gasoline. That's the main attraction of E85 to me, despite having to be careful with not leaving it in the saw for too long, once it's time to hang up the saw for the season, run it empty a...

Here's a finnish drink mix, take .75 liters of E85 and mix it with .38 deciliters of two stroke oil. I run my chainsaw on this. It's controversial but IMO it works, and the engine runs cooler which is why I like it, engine lasts longer.

Planted potatoes on saturday: https://i.imgur.com/MFFlMX6h.jpg Been testing the pressure washer, on video it sounds and looks better than IRL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-YpOuZ6Ko The check valves are the issue I believe, worn and leaking most likely, causing a rythmic pulsing. https://i.imgur....

Cut my own hair, my good pair of clippers is broken and I had issues getting a good fade, kept creeping upwards until I gave up and left it like that. I'm not growing a beard, just lazy. I'll shave eventually. My hair line is going upwards all way around it seems like. https://i.imgur.com/dliTZf6l.j...

New part almost done, there's still the need to make an o-ring groove on the inside bore, I also managed to get .4mm thicker walls on this by being careful with the fitting of the spring that goes on the inside, a nice sliding fit instead of a sloppy one. Should make it stronger than the original. T...

First test, but without a hose or handle. I found a few leaks where I didn't tighten up properly. And the new hose barb for the inlet leaks, it was broken looking but I tried anyway, the original barb is for 3/4 garden hose and I have only 1/2" garden hose. The welded unloader valve leaks unfor...

Visited my parents for mothers day, took a walk to the lake next to their house, it's the biggest natural lake in ostrobothnia. Unfortunately it suffers greatly from eutrophication. https://i.imgur.com/UaleqyL.jpeg When I was a kid there were still places you could swim in it and when my parents wer...

Last night I found a chunk of brass hex rod in my mailbox, that was fast. Guy said he'd gone out motorcycling and just dropped it off.

Damn it's hard to find some cow poop manure now, strange given the smell in spring in this place. I need fertilizer for my potato patch. Chicken manure is what I got but it's not good for potatoes. Cow manure though is the good stuff. When I was a kid we'd get all the cow dung we needed from my gran...

That part of the thread was unused anyway, but if I really wanted to I could chuck it in the lathe and recut the thread. Well, there'd be some low spots. But I won't bother with that.

Oh I forgot, I was offered a piece of hex brass rod so I can turn my own replacement of above part. Which is nice. A new unloader valve would be about 40€ though but free is still cheaper. I don't count my own labour or time, it's a hobby it's supposed to take up my time.

Good to know. Been interested in upping my game and doing refried beans, pinto beans are hard to find though. On my pressure washer project. I completed all the pistons, one is of different design but I hope it'll work, a threaded rod will go through it later and I will seal it with thread locker. h...

I have often hear americans complain about water saving toilets, saying they don't flush well. I wonder if it's because of this, maybe the type of toilet needs more water to work efficiently?

You aren't getting hooked up here to a municipal network without a meter here and I think that's how it was done from nearly day one.

Now unmetered water that's a new one on me. Unless we're talking people with their own wells of course. We pay nearly 4 euros per cubic meter of water (half of that is the sewage fee) since we're hooked up the municipality's water and sewage.