"Ron" wrote in message
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GregS wrote:
In article , "john zeiss"
wrote:
We have a small portable sony radio, and it has the usual type of
extendable aerial (antenna) that you get on small japanese radios.

It now refuses to maintain its position at an *angle*. Slowly but
surely
it drops down until it reaches the horizontal position.

The small screw has been tightened up, but even as tight as we think we
can
do it without stripping the slots in the screw head, it is not enough to
*clamp* the aerial to stop it dropping down.

Basically the aerial at its base is a square shape with one small bronze
coloured washer each side of it and that all sits in a ' U ' shaped base
with it all being clamped with a small screw.

Are there any tricks you know of, to get it to behave? Thanks.



Cyanoacrylate


Geez. It`s just gone a bit floppy, the spring washers have lost their
tension, it shouldn`t be beyond the wit of man to either retension them,
find an old aerial from which the springs can be salvaged or if it comes
to it, purchase a replacement aerial from which the springs can either be
used or if he`s lucky enough to find a good match, the whole twig can be
used.

Here in the UK several companies spring immediately to mind who stock
quite a good range of generic replacement aerials, a bit of fiddling will
probably result in a workable solution.

Ron

I agree Ron. I've never seen so much nonsense spouted about what is
fundamentally a simple problem, which those of us in the trade see all the
time, and have posted back here how to fix with a minimum of fuss and
tools - certainly not including drills ... !

Arfa