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Is there any way to play a MP3 player thru Auto CD Player
On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 10:06:10 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:32:10 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: AMC used a lot weird stuff. I was never sure if they designed their vehicles around other manufacturer's parts or if they designed their vehicles first and then found parts to fit ;-) If I recall correctly, there was more than one starter listed for my '66 Ambassador 990, each with a different bolt pattern. My favorite: The vacuum booster pump cap for the fuel pump to keep the windshield wiper speed fairly constant while accelerating. My booster pump died so I just bypassed it. Getting on the expressway during a rainstorm was always an adventure. Thank God for Rain-X! I had a couple AMCs, a 72 Jeep when they owned the brand and a 71 Gremlin, I got as a gift (AKA broke down in my driveway and abandoned). The Gremlin had that 232ci 6 that fouled the #5 plug about every 2000 miles. You could just clean it and put it right back in. A new one fouled just about as fast. I got to the point where I could swap the plug at a long light. I kept a handful in the glove compartment. It was basically a POS car but I still put 50,000 miles on it and sold it for $500. I tossed the factory radio right away and put in a JIL AM/FM/8 track, CB. I do think they cobbled together a lot of off the shelf parts. The transmission was a Borg Warner, Ignition was Delco but the engines were AMC. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/gremlin2.jpg This isn't mine, but it's the same car, same color: http://www.automotivetimelines.com/c...% 20Photo.jpg My favorite feature was the "Lay Down Rambler" seats. Again, not my car. https://walkingwithstefan.files.word...pg?w=549&h=308 Delbert McClinton B-Movie Boxcar Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVxorhmYADc Next I caught a ride with a gambler's wife She had a brand new lay down Rambler She parked outside of town And laid the rambler down And said she sure could dig it if I rode her |
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 04:42:50 -0000 (UTC), HerHusband
wrote: I've never understood the reason for a remote control in a car stereo. All of the controls are at my reach on the head unit already. I suppose it could be handy if you're in the back seat with your sweetie. I have no intention to get a smartphone, based on the cost. My prepaid Tracfone is all I need. You might check out Tracfone's latest offerings. I have Tracfone too and upgraded to an LG Ultimate 2 L41C last year. It may not be bleeding edge stuff but it's certainly smart enough for my needs. Sure beats the old flip phone. I have my Tracfone, and actually have to make some "regular calls" or I accumulate too many minutes. Yeah, I've got 100's of voice minutes that I never use, and Tracfone doesn't make it easy to just buy service hours. So I end up adding minutes every year when I don't need them just so I can add service time. I do hope they have exceeded the 4gb limit though. I haven't tried it, but I think it will accept a larger drive, it just won't access more than 4GB. In any case, that's hundreds of songs and hours of music. Unless you're taking a road trip, you won't be able to listen to all of the songs on the drive. One thing I still dont understand is how to determine what stereos will fit in my 1996 Plymouth Voyager. Amazon sells an install kit (adapter plate) for your car for single DIN radios. So any single DIN stereo should fit, given enough depth behind the dash (you would probably need to remove the old stereo and measure it, then compare the new stereo's specifications). Thanks for all your help! No problem. I'm happy to help. Anthony Watson I dont understand the need for a remote control either. I just hope if it comes with a remote, it dont lack the controls on the stereo itself like a lot of tvs do these days. If I misplace my tv remote, all I can do is turn it on and off from the set itself. Cant change volume or channels or anything else. Real annoying.... I have about 5gb of songs stored on my computer, and copied to another portable drive (backup). That is a lot of music. I have not heard all of them. So, a 4gb flash drive would work just fine. I have another 1gb of music I ripped from my own CDs as a backup, but they are not in MP3. But as soon as I get software to convert them, I can add those too. Either way, one 8 or 16gb flash drive will hold everything I own, and still have room to spare. One of these days I might get a new Tracfone, but I am not looking forward to that day, when I will have to retype about 260 contacts from my contact list. Otherwise I may have replaced that phone already, since most of the numbers are worn off the keys and I've had to replace the battery twice now, and the battery costs as much as a new flip phone. As far as getting more features, I dont need them, and probably dont even want to have to learn them. Just like computers, all they keep doing is making them harder to use, yet add nothing useful, which is why I stick with Windows XP, and have no intention to upgrade. |
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:32:10 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 8:30:37 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:18:44 -0000 (UTC), HerHusband wrote: That reminds me of the time I tried to replace the mono radio in my 1966 lay-down Rambler with an after-market stereo AM/FM/Cassette unit. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the dashboard and found that AMC had used a radio with the face on the "bottom" and installed the radio "standing up". Let's call it a vertical radio instead of your standard horizontal radio. http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/cf/a9/5a2f_35.JPG I worked as a car stereo installer back in the late 80's or early 90's. I saw a lot of weird radio configurations, but that's one I never saw before. Very interesting! Anthony Watson www.watsondiy.com www.mountainsoftware.com Lots of AMCs also used a vertical dial. Nothing like the round dial in a mid-fifties ford. AMC used a lot weird stuff. I was never sure if they designed their vehicles around other manufacturer's parts or if they designed their vehicles first and then found parts to fit ;-) If I recall correctly, there was more than one starter listed for my '66 Ambassador 990, each with a different bolt pattern. Depends on the engine - They did use Prestolite and Delco Remy - possibly both on the same engine. I worked for an AMC dealer for a short time in the early seventies. My favorite: The vacuum booster pump cap for the fuel pump to keep the windshield wiper speed fairly constant while accelerating. My booster pump died so I just bypassed it. Getting on the expressway during a rainstorm was always an adventure. Thank God for Rain-X! Chevy did the same on their low end models up until the late fifties. |
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 20:05:32 -0600, rbowman
wrote: On 09/27/2016 07:32 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote: AMC used a lot weird stuff. I was never sure if they designed their vehicles around other manufacturer's parts or if they designed their vehicles first and then found parts to fit ;-) For a while the family ride was a '62 Rambler Classic and that's what I did most of my learning to drive on. My father had fallen for George Romney's practical car pitch and that it had 15" wheels when the industry was going to 14's. Never cared much for Romney's after that trauma. I was happy when it was replaced by a '65 Dodge although I would have been a lot happier with a '65 Mustang. They designed the cars and found parts to fit - in most cases. Design adaptations were dictated by the available parts. |
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I missed the original posting....
Years ago when stores started advertsing player for CDs and MP3s, I got one and it never worked for me. Ended up using Nero to convert MP3 to audio format and burning on CDs. That's still the easiest way for me. |
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"Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"
writes: I missed the original posting.... Years ago when stores started advertsing player for CDs and MP3s, I got one and it never worked for me. Ended up using Nero to convert MP3 to audio format and burning on CDs. That's still the easiest way for me. Should have found out why your MP3s didn't work. Recent tests are giving me about 170 tracks per CD in MP3 format, vs. about 12 in audio format. That's a big difference. -- Dan Espen |
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:58:58 -0400, Tekkie®
wrote: posted for all of us... On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:32:10 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 8:30:37 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:18:44 -0000 (UTC), HerHusband wrote: That reminds me of the time I tried to replace the mono radio in my 1966 lay-down Rambler with an after-market stereo AM/FM/Cassette unit. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the dashboard and found that AMC had used a radio with the face on the "bottom" and installed the radio "standing up". Let's call it a vertical radio instead of your standard horizontal radio. http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/cf/a9/5a2f_35.JPG I worked as a car stereo installer back in the late 80's or early 90's. I saw a lot of weird radio configurations, but that's one I never saw before. Very interesting! Anthony Watson www.watsondiy.com www.mountainsoftware.com Lots of AMCs also used a vertical dial. Nothing like the round dial in a mid-fifties ford. AMC used a lot weird stuff. I was never sure if they designed their vehicles around other manufacturer's parts or if they designed their vehicles first and then found parts to fit ;-) If I recall correctly, there was more than one starter listed for my '66 Ambassador 990, each with a different bolt pattern. Depends on the engine - They did use Prestolite and Delco Remy - possibly both on the same engine. I worked for an AMC dealer for a short time in the early seventies. My favorite: The vacuum booster pump cap for the fuel pump to keep the windshield wiper speed fairly constant while accelerating. My booster pump died so I just bypassed it. Getting on the expressway during a rainstorm was always an adventure. Thank God for Rain-X! Chevy did the same on their low end models up until the late fifties. Yeah, those vacuum wipers...sucked. g You think vacuum wipers sucked, you want to experience a vacuum fuel pump (like on my old '28 Chevy |
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On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 10:20:28 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:58:58 -0400, Tekkie® wrote: posted for all of us... On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:32:10 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03 wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 8:30:37 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:18:44 -0000 (UTC), HerHusband wrote: That reminds me of the time I tried to replace the mono radio in my 1966 lay-down Rambler with an after-market stereo AM/FM/Cassette unit. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the dashboard and found that AMC had used a radio with the face on the "bottom" and installed the radio "standing up". Let's call it a vertical radio instead of your standard horizontal radio. http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/cf/a9/5a2f_35.JPG I worked as a car stereo installer back in the late 80's or early 90's. I saw a lot of weird radio configurations, but that's one I never saw before. Very interesting! Anthony Watson www.watsondiy.com www.mountainsoftware.com Lots of AMCs also used a vertical dial. Nothing like the round dial in a mid-fifties ford. AMC used a lot weird stuff. I was never sure if they designed their vehicles around other manufacturer's parts or if they designed their vehicles first and then found parts to fit ;-) If I recall correctly, there was more than one starter listed for my '66 Ambassador 990, each with a different bolt pattern. Depends on the engine - They did use Prestolite and Delco Remy - possibly both on the same engine. I worked for an AMC dealer for a short time in the early seventies. My favorite: The vacuum booster pump cap for the fuel pump to keep the windshield wiper speed fairly constant while accelerating. My booster pump died so I just bypassed it. Getting on the expressway during a rainstorm was always an adventure. Thank God for Rain-X! Chevy did the same on their low end models up until the late fifties. Yeah, those vacuum wipers...sucked. g You think vacuum wipers sucked, you want to experience a vacuum fuel pump (like on my old '28 Chevy Whoosh! |
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On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 10:29:58 PM UTC-4, Bob F wrote:
On 9/23/2016 2:51 AM, wrote: I recall years ago, you could buy a device that plugged into any car radio that played cassettes. The thing was pushed into the casette opening, and a wire which is part of it, could be connected to any other audio source. But what about car radios that have a CD player. Is there a similar device that can be pushed into the CD opening to allow another audio source to be played, such as a MP3 player? You can pick up a MP3 input FM transmitter for a few $ (dealextreme or ?) and just use the FM radio. I take it you haven't been following this thread too closely... |
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:28:29 -0700, Bob F wrote:
On 9/23/2016 2:51 AM, wrote: I recall years ago, you could buy a device that plugged into any car radio that played cassettes. The thing was pushed into the casette opening, and a wire which is part of it, could be connected to any other audio source. But what about car radios that have a CD player. Is there a similar device that can be pushed into the CD opening to allow another audio source to be played, such as a MP3 player? You can pick up a MP3 input FM transmitter for a few $ (dealextreme or ?) and just use the FM radio. That's been suggested several times and it has been noted that the sound quality is often poor and when travelling younkeep having to change frequencies to avoid interference from strong local stations. |
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On 10/02/2016 06:30 AM, Tekkie® wrote:
posted for all of us... You think vacuum wipers sucked, you want to experience a vacuum fuel pump (like on my old '28 Chevy Never came across one of them. They must have been great while starting. http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Diaphragm_Fuel_Pumps They aren't vacuum only since they're tapped into the two-stroke's crankcase but they work. A lot of bikes with gravity feed fuel systems have a vacuum operated petcock. Usually there's enough fuel in the float bowl to get the engine running. If not, the petcock has a 'prime' position to manually allow fuel flow. I had a '62 Continental where many of the functions like the heating system were vacuum operated. That was a joy when they started failing. |
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 08:30:30 -0400, Tekkie® wrote:
posted for all of us... You think vacuum wipers sucked, you want to experience a vacuum fuel pump (like on my old '28 Chevy Never came across one of them. They must have been great while starting. No problem unless you ran out of gas. Basically a #40 juice can on the firewall that gravity fed the carb. When the level in the can dropped, a valve mechanism applied vacuum from the manifold to the fuel line to suck more gas into the can. When the float in the can came to the top it switched off the vacuum to the fuel line - repeat every minute or so depending on fuel demand. (somewhat simplified). Stewart was one common brand. |
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