Summer in Finland is the last 2 weeks of July

We mounted the window with some screws and instantly we saw a flaw on our design. The bottom of the chamber was unreachable and in any case if something fell in there it would lost and unrecoverable. So we dismounted it and put it back together with some nuts and bolts. We almost broke the window too but fortunately we missed it by a hair. As the saying goes luck favors the bold (more like luck favors the fool and the dumb). In the end it turned out swell and although its a pain to remove the very overweight (lets call it chubby so we won’t hurt its feelings from henceforth) window, its do-able. We also scrapped the idea of gluing the mirror and instead held the window in the place with some rubber stoppers. We felt very proud about this one. The mirrors were mounted too with some door hinges and we will be adjusting it with an adjustable window hook to set in place.

Oven with the mirrors and windows attached

The temperature test on the other hand seems like a lost cause now. It seems that the summer is over and the day we could have actually done the test, we spent it indoors in magical Biltema. We will have to wait for a sunny day in August which doesn't seem to be happening in weekdays on august then after that its about 2-3 weeks of rainy autumn and then frigid winter for about 7-8 months. Attaching hot plate with batteries to make it work in the winter sounds more and more promising. At least the oven is done and we can hope that someday there will be some solid hours of sunshine and we will boil a container full of water on it. We’d hate it if we have to wait until next summer.

The base however is a different and perilous story. We have tried different approaches. We gave cutting an angle on the base to mount the oven a thought. It would solve the balance problem but we wouldn't be able to rotate it. After much brainstorming we decided to go with a hexagonal base.