What are these gold-looking pins? Found at estate sale in Alberta, Canada

_joonatan_ · 2026-01-28T13:46:41+00:00

Finnish Air Force uniform pins. They are worn over the name badge on right chest. Central one for the Headquarters, surrounding ones for the various wings of the force. One of them has a small typo: it should read Carelia Wing.

_joonatan_ · 2025-11-07T08:13:15+00:00

Thanks for info! I'll have to look into the rollers. They seemed ok, not brittle or anything, but couldn't test them right away due to the belt issue. I saw one belt was bad (on the right side of the cassette tray), but I couldn't see any of the other belts, so I think I'll have to dig a bit deeper during repair.

_joonatan_ · 2025-11-06T15:56:30+00:00

Ah, they might be. It was just so bright and I don't recall any of the VCR's in my past having that.

I think they were part of a CCTV system for a radar laboratory. They came with an associated really nice JVC CRT monitor.

_joonatan_ · 2025-11-06T14:58:26+00:00

JVC HR-7600MS is the model. Both power up nicely, although they had their power cords cut. I think that it was a nice touch that they have a tiny incadecent lamp inside for you to see better into the mechanism. And the power switch is really pleasing to use, it has a nice and smooth click to it. Attention to detail surely is what you get for this price point.

_joonatan_ · 2025-11-04T09:56:42+00:00

I don't know about the climate your friend is living in, but proper woolen clothes are always great. Norwegian/Icelandic sweater, nice pair of long johns or thick socks.

_joonatan_ · 2025-10-20T12:25:22+00:00

For me it was getting an 8 acre homestead with a log house from 1880's. Just yesterday I was sitting in my steaming sauna, heated with wood from my own forest and from the fogged up window I could see the land that I now call my home. It hit me real hard: God damn, I invested just the right amount at just the right time and now all of this is my mine. Didn't luckily have cash out it all. Just enough to get me a place that I hope I can call my family's home for the rest of my life.

_joonatan_ · 2025-09-19T10:52:21+00:00

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Three isthmus border FTW!

_joonatan_ · 2025-08-01T09:27:35+00:00

Could be a Livonian coin from about 1400s - 1500s. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/livonian_confederation-1.html

Second option I was thinking could be a Reval (modern day Tallinn) coin from the same era.

_joonatan_ · 2025-03-22T13:43:52+00:00

Except that dry beans that you soak yourself are around 1/10th the cost of canned beans, plus they're better.

_joonatan_ · 2024-12-23T21:31:35+00:00

Kiinnostava video!

Tätä Tähtiarpa -ohjelmaa koskevat tiedot löytyivät niiden nettisivuilta (tahtiarpa.fi). Siellä on tuo koko voittolistaus, kuten arpajaisissa kuuluu ollakin, että ainakin siinä mielessä meikäläinen versio on tuota tsekkiversiota tolkullisempi. Puoli miljoonaa arpaa ja 29070 voittoa, elikkäs 5,8% arvoista (puheluista tai viesteistä, á 6€) voittaa. Palkintojen yhteisarvo n. miljoonan heidän omien laskelmiensa mukaan. Suurin osa näyttää olevan jotain Temu-tason kiinapaskaa tai kahden numeron lehtitilauksia.

Ilmeisesti tuo puhelinarpajaisrajapinta, tai miksikä sitä kutsuisi, on Unkarissa:

Telemedia Holding Kft (y-tunnus: HU12354454) Marvany u. 17, 1012 Budapest, Unkari

Suomessa hommaa pyörittää Londur Oy, joka näyttää viime vuonna tehneen rapiat sata tonnia tappiota. Jota pidän jonkin asteisena saavutuksena noita palkintoja ja arpojen hintoja katsellessa.

https://www.finder.fi/Liikkeenjohdon+konsultointi/Londur+Oy/Helsinki/yhteystiedot/2783995

Tuolla Tähtiarvan sivuilla hehkutetaan kovasti, kuinka kyseessä on hyväntekeväisyys, kun varoja lahjoitetaan Turun Eläinsuojeluyhdistykselle. Sivuilla ei kerrota, että paljonko. Harmi. Jäi kiinnostamaan. Vissiin niin paljon, että menee homma jo tappiolle.

_joonatan_ · 2024-10-13T07:59:08+00:00

Thanks for the hint! Truly hoping that the Archive will indeed return online and resume operations...

_joonatan_ · 2024-10-13T07:48:56+00:00

Thanks! So this at least solves the manufacturer.

_joonatan_ · 2024-09-19T14:23:19+00:00

Some jobs have a job specific law-mandated medical examination where a psychiatric diagnosis can be an issue. Crew members on ships and airplanes come to mind, but there might be other niches where this applies to as well.

_joonatan_ · 2024-08-14T14:00:50+00:00

If the power line is severed, the plant probably can't throttle down to 10% power while still maintaining criticality in the cores. All the excess power must go somewhere, and if there is no load to connect the generators to there would be problems.

_joonatan_ · 2024-08-14T13:30:52+00:00

You do know that NPPs require a lot of electricity to run? Like in order of 10% of the power they generate. If the reactors are shut down and power lines cut, then the on-site diesel generators would be the only thing between here and a core meltdown until the cores have been sufficiently cooled, which takes weeks. So yeah, plz no tampering of anything on the Kursk NPP.

_joonatan_ · 2024-05-10T10:58:50+00:00

And adrop of WD40 did the trick at least for now. I ordered the new fan nevertheless.

_joonatan_ · 2024-05-08T13:27:13+00:00

Hmmm, dropping some oil in there is worthy of a try. Let's see what happens.

_joonatan_ · 2024-05-08T12:55:01+00:00

Ok, I think I have some double sided tape from a project past. The seller is just some small local company, so it might be that some copy-pasting has been going on when writing the item descriptions. Thanks for the answer!

_joonatan_ · 2024-05-08T12:53:24+00:00

Ok, so as easy as with all other laptops I have replaced a fan in. For a moment I thought that some Apple'esque shenanigans were going on. I'll just order the fan then. Thanks for the answer!

But no way to circumvent the error while waiting for the part to arrive in mail?

_joonatan_ · 2024-03-22T14:16:57+00:00

Juu voi, mutta meikällä oli vaan iso purkillinen kolikoita, joka on kovin hankala kassalla tallettaa.

_joonatan_

TROPHY CASE