Promise of summer

We are provided with a shed near the dumpsters in the rear of TAMK by the parking lot, which is a perfect place for us. Its literally couple of steps to the trash which is like a treasure chest for us. It was a bit like Scrooge McDuck swimming through gold. Going with the spirit of recycling, we salvaged a pair of undamaged auditorium speakers which has been helping us get through the work hours. Not that they are dreary its more like icing on the cake. 

 

Salvaged work bench with salvaged speakers :D

We salvaged a pallet for the base where the oven will be mounted, we guessed we build the bottom first and build our way to the top. We also don’t have all the required materials to fashion an oven yet so base was the logical choice so we can at least get some work done. We decided to go with the classic four pillars and horizontal dark brown wood boards (thanks to the city of Tampere) on each four sides. It’s to achieve a Nordic look or that’s what we tell people. We are just using what we can get and that is what we could find.
 

Sizing things up

Measure twice, cut once, right?

The four pillars of doom

We got the planks cut to the size we needed in the construction engineering labs which is like the candy store for us. The equipment there makes every grown man’s/woman's eyes glisten with the world of possibilities... or its just us. We also got some insulation which was rated to about 70°C thanks to Eeva-Lisa Viskari head of the Environmental Engineering programme and also the person who commissioned the project. We had already stripped down the oven (with helping hands of one Mr. Gerbrand Grobler) to its bare bones and separated the main oven part (which we will use as the main body of the oven) and the hot plates.

 As a joke, we are still hanging on to the plates because we want to mount it under the oven with some car batteries to make a new wonder :- a solar oven that works in winter in Finland.