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11/10/2020 at 11:17 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
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They actually bought this for me! I drilled into the sheared bit that was left, extracted it with a Harbor Freight bit. Screwed in the new one with thread lock. Done. Sounds great.
Yes I still listen to the ‘radio’.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Grindintosecond
11/10/2020 at 11:26 |
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2nd gen Tacoma?
onlytwowheels
> Grindintosecond
11/10/2020 at 12:00 |
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In the fall of 1986 I bought my first new truck, a Mazda B2000. Paranoid that my truck would turn to rust overnight, I would bring it to the car wash every Saturday for an over and under wash. The car wash was the type where you pulled up to the entrance and an attendant would put down your antenna, walk around vehicle and check for open wind ows, loose part or items that may be in the bed, then guide you in to the conveyor. Typically, while the attendant was doing their job, I would run around the truck and spray my white lettered tires with Bleche-Wite.
Well, one partic ular afternoon, the attendant forgot to lower my antenna. As the brus hes began to whip against the mast, I looked over in horror as my antenna flies past the side window as it was torn off. I’m mad, but not sure if this is my fault or not. After exiting the wash, there are attendants with towels, to do the final drying. I tell one what just happened and he tells me to go to the manager’s office. Turns out the manager is the brother of my sister’s boyfriend. He ap ologizes and said that the attendant is supposed to lower it if it is not a power antenna. He suggest that I get it replaced an d bring him the bill.
I go to the dealer on Monday and they tell me they can do it next day. The following d ay the truck is ready and I pay the bill, nearly $200. I was shocked, and so was the car wash manager. As he was writing a check for the bill, he said “Maybe I should get in the antenna repla cement business. ”
GLiddy
> Grindintosecond
11/10/2020 at 14:01 |
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Looks familiar. Back around Y2K my wife and I rented a car for a cross country trip to NM. After a few miles we ran out things to talk about...or she wanted to sleep or something so I reach to turn on the radio. I was greeted with nothing but static. The darned rental car was missing the antenna.
There’s no way I could make a 2000 mile cross country trip with no radio (this was pre iPod and pretty much pre-everything digital) so I pull off the interstate somewhere in Oklahoma and go into a Walmart. The last time I had bought a replacement antenna was many years before when I helped my dad get a replacement aerial for his 1970 Ford LTD that was broken off at a car wash. That antenna was a chrome multi-section universal unit that attached to the old antenna stub with a couple of set screws.
This time, all I found at the Walmart was a universal rubber duckie antenna with multiple double-ended threaded stubs. Fortunately, one of them fit into the rental (I think it might have been a Chevy Cavalier) and that got the radio reception back again. When the trip was over, I removed the rubber duckie antenna and kept it with my miscellaneous spare car parts. Perhaps it will be used again some day. I still have it.
Anyway, your replacement antenna looks just like it.
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Grindintosecond
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/10/2020 at 16:25 |
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Best gen.