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Put in a new stereo in the Saab, it's a tad modern but fits nicer with the green color scheme. And it's a tape player of course. It has a CD changer port, which I will use instead to make a 3.5mm audio jack on the dash. https://i.imgur.com/KBvtNRqh.jpg Gotta start making mixtapes now, got it all set...

I was figuring some conflict with authorization and file access rights after musk turned everything into a hot mess

I now have a completed concrete floor. This was all me and a friend who has more knowledge of this kind of stuff and we worked entirely by hand and some hard pads f insulation to move about the concrete floor before it set up. I had a concrete truck deliver the concrete, I've mixed this amount of co...

I told them I was allergic to low fat foods yet they still gave me sandwiches with margarine instead of butter and fatfree milk instead of whole milk.

I assume they got the same problems with shitty sheet metal ones being all you can buy new there too.

Fortunately a friend of mine said he has a cartload of them, he bought them from the scrapyard to save them from being melted down, cost 60 cents / kg.

I bought a pair of old ass fog lights for the Saab, only 10€. When I get them I can see they say Bosch Halogen and Made in Sweden. They have no CE mark so they are older than 1984. Made in Sweden, not bad for 10€. Treated with plastic restorer to the left, just cleaned with soap and water on right. ...

Brick is a terrible material in all other respects IMO.

Cleaning the car to get it ready for last weekends excursion. After a regular wash I used fly rust remover on the hood, then some color sanding with 3000 grit and finally polishing the hood. https://i.imgur.com/hfytcAdh.jpg Some photos from last weekend, went to a boot fair which is I think Finlands...

Last friday I replaced the fuel pump, it came quickly from Sweden. Old pump, noted the mark and oriented the new one in the same direction. The new one also had a float, which I think is a level sensor but is a separate unit on this car so I just ignored hooking it up. https://i.imgur.com/M7gz8Emh.j...

TIL that we're better prepared to face climate change than we thought where I live. While climate change is one of those things that countries like Finland will be the least affected by, we just found a hereto unknown underground aquifer. And it's a big one. The biggest underground aquifer in the no...

Bought a sticker for my car, SF = Suomi Finland, or jokingly, Soviet Finland as people used to say. https://i.imgur.com/FuCF7wY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gvPRBKx.png To be put on the car when travelling outside Finland in europe, when you have old pre-eu license plates like on my car. And actually the...

For actually literally unlimited fission, sure seawater extraction would be very useful. But for say many additional centuries of fuel. We'll get to that simply by prospecting and opening new mines. And that's before taking into account reprocessing all the of the current waste. Or more effectively,...

Fissile materials are basically unlimited for all intents and purposes though. The idea that they're limited to a century or less is a talking point based on a lot of shady reasoning like only counting current existing mines. Like we can't prospect and open new mines if we want to... or use reproces...

And it's back together and rolling!

At least the other side is looking a lot better. And I should be done tonight with this.

Being out in nature is a great relief to me, would suck to not be able to go out. Ah a sad weekend for me. Found this, I just spotted something and went poking and it just got worse looking and worse. And to think I did inspect this area when buying it. Very common for saabs to rust out here, the ri...

Found in the woods

Weekend of disasters... Broke the tail light on my car trying to remove it (since that's where water was leaking in, one screw had rusted in place), spent a day trying to fix it. https://i.imgur.com/7ZrpBZBh.jpg Grooving out the cuts, filling with epoxy, sanding to 800 grit https://i.imgur.com/RNTsb...

Oh yeah that's a constant problem... It has been raining a lot here lately. I decided on a hunch to check the boot area because I read something online about them leaking. Well the boot lid doesn't leak it seems, but it does leak around the rear tail light from what i can tell, maybe a little from t...

Oh yeah I do think Iäm getting better mileage, I was getting around 28-29mpg and I might be doing 30+ now.

Well I replaced the turbo bypass valve on the Saab since that was the cause of vacuum issues I've had. Still make new ones. Here's the old one, caked in oil and mud. Everything gets cleaned before going back! https://i.imgur.com/ILA4akAh.jpg I also replaced the plugs. I was lucky and I found eight N...

Finland is now in NATO, Poland is also in NATO.... The rest of NATO / USA might wring their hands and dwardle following an invasion of Finalnd but with how well Ukraine fought the invasion to a standstill I can well imagine Finland could do a fair similar effort and Poland I'm sure would be happy t...

Doing a job for a friend, this wasn't a big job, I took a few tenths of a millimeter of the center bore that had galling damage. The biggest part of this job was getting it chucked up properly in the lathe. Because of the geometry I guess, everytime I adjusted something, something else got out of wh...

X looks like the close symbol on a window. How fitting.

I had a magpie like 40 centimeters away from my face this morning, saw it through half closed blinds as it stood on the window sill.

That's my story.