radio aerial (antenna) won't stay in position
In message , "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. Dose it up with some Loctite thread locker. Easy Peasy. -- "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.... The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." -James Madison |
radio aerial (antenna) won't stay in position
I've never seen such a set of ludicrous and impractical suggestions. The solution is simple. Go to a birthday party and obtain one or more gas-filled balloons. Attach a balloon to the tip of the aerial. This will hold it up, and will also look nice. Bill |
radio aerial (antenna) won't stay in position
Bill Wright wrote:
I've never seen such a set of ludicrous and impractical suggestions. The solution is simple. Go to a birthday party and obtain one or more gas-filled balloons. Attach a balloon to the tip of the aerial. This will hold it up, and will also look nice. Bill Nooooo silly suggestion, you`ll have Elf and Safety down on you before you can say Jack Robinson, and the Greenie environmental lot chewing you out for using latex balloons. What were you thnking! Ron |
radio aerial (antenna) won't stay in position
Owain wrote:
Ron wrote: Bill Wright wrote: ... Attach a balloon to the tip of the aerial. ... and the Greenie environmental lot chewing you out for using latex balloons. What about latex condoms? Thought the Greenie lot approved of birth control Owain Nah a condom wouldn't help, even full of helium. Just needs a bit of fettling, or a new aerial. Rn |
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