Ha, took me a while to get to this project, but I finally just sat down and finished the last bit of epoxying. Started 1/2003, took me 9 months to carefully take it apart, 2 more months to butcher all the pieces so they'd fit just right, then 8 more months to put it all back together. Well, it was worth the over-a-year-and-a-half of waiting for myself to get around to it.

It's purposly the low end stock Volvo radio with no CD player in order to draw less attention. All sliders move, the knob spins, the real LCD glass is in place, and most buttons can be pressed (with no feedback); all just for fun in a way. All that and it's probably only an inch thick, with the supports extending a bit longer. And, hopefully, the epoxy will help make it "bomber-proof", as they say.

(now that I stalled enough to let the images load)

All that time to turn this:


Into this:


To make this:


Look like this:


Now I just have to remember to put it in when I park. Getting there. Maybe in another year and a half.