Rain protection and ropes in tha ceiling?

Well, there is little progress now that winter here in Sweden are (is?) coming (Late Autumn right now, and it is getting cold!). I do however continues to declutter the apartment (from excess of stuff). I am making slow progress, but still progress. Check out my other site levafri (only in Swedish) for more info. I do feel freer for every item that gets out of my life.

Car vise.. I have continued testing alternatives for car curtains and more privacy.

I measured the length between the grip handles in the ceiling, thinking I might put a curtain rod there..  About 95-97 cm rod would be fine.

I tore down the shower curtain rod from the apartment to see if it would fit. I did not. Here is a picture of it.

I am having a hard time finding any suitable hangers (for the curtain) in the back. But I guess it will work anyway.

Next project was making a tent for the car? No. However I got a bright idea when I decided to replace the shower curtain in my apartment. Instead of just throwing the old one out, I decided to recycle..

So I cut the plastic curtain into rain protectors. It does not win any beauty contest, but it is practical. It has always been a "hassle" to get fresh air into the car when it is raining. If I wind the window down, of course there is poring in rain inside the car (when raining, very frustrating). This will prevent that from happening! YES!

Here is the other side of the car. Preparing to cut the shower curtain. Yes, I admit not the nicest shower curtain, ehh.

Okey, what else? Well I did try some ropes inside of the car. The thought is that they will act as some sort of curtain holders also. Yes much curtain thoughts right now! :)

Here hooks clamber from Ikea. I will hang the fleece curtain in those.

This will do.. Ropes everywhere, can you tell that I like the simplicity of ropes. They are so versatile!

Well I am pretty pleased with this solution. At-least, it is enough for me. Don't overdo it is my new philosophy.

Heat storage thinking

Today I was out to the garage again. Testing a heat transfer "cable". This heatchannels goes to the backseat footarea I my thought was to try to get the heat to warm water bottles.

Here are the two outlets under the passenger chair. The electric cable is for the heating of the chair.

Hmm. bad fit. Round vs round rectangular. Have to come up with something bright here.

Onother useless picture of the same objects..

The plan is to connect this with the "pipes"... and then transfer the it to a box with lots of water bottles. Heat storage! Good when cold.

Did not fit there either. Duh.

Instead of writing the diameter I use my hand as measure...

Finger size so I know the size of the outlets.

Well, I shall be thinking a bit more on this.. Bye!

Grip handle and more car curtains in the Toyota

Yesterday I went to an automobile dismantling firm (scrap yard in English?), Kungsåra Bildemontering. I was looking for some grip handles for my Toyota. They have plenty of cars and you have to bring your tools your self and remove the object you want. They also have a homepage so you can see if they got your car model in “stock”.

At the automobile dismantling firm (scrap yard in English?)

Back to the handles. You know the ones in the ceiling right besides the doors. They only had an older Toyota Starlet, but I took a handle from that car (even though it did not match entirely by color.., but that I found out later) and then found some other “twisted” ones in a Toyota Previa, the right color. I took them also! The plan was to use them as curtain holders! Well with some sort of string (rope?) that is. And you can’t have to many handles right? Ehhmm. I know this from a fact, dragging up you heavy body of the floor when sleeping for example.

As you might have reed before (earlier posts) I did not find any good way to attach a curtain, but I think this will solve that problem. And besides, there are already nuts in place (behind the ceiling). So it was perfect to attach something there. But of course the first hole in the ceiling I missed that nut, so I got an extra small hole, sheize.

Ok, so here are the results.

Just started to attach the handle

Here the other side. New handles in place!

I then hung a paracord across the handles and to the sunshades. Again trying the "curtain" with that old dust cloth.

More testing, I think the handles will do a good job to hold my curtains. This will do, until I find a better way!

Here trying a fleece curtain in the front. I will try to get some black fleece. Dark is better atleast from the outside.

Well you get the picture, if it was black you would not see much.

It is getting cold here in Sweden now so I will not be working any more on the car. I got a cold being out in the car this weekend :-(.

Ok, bye for now!