Re: Help with broken radio antenna!

Posted by Muir On 2013/5/3 23:55:14

Funny thing is the '53 antenna is the same diameter as one of the inner sections of the '56, but the lengths are all kahouts.
I'm quite game to have a go pulling the sleeves and trying to find a 'universal' mast that I can just throw away the workings and just use it for the sleeves. It's on the 'dummy' side so it just has to go up and down. The motors on both run very well, like all the cars electrics do, so I'd like to keep fettling with it.
As said, it's not like there's a lot happening with it at the moment - there isn't even a mast there.
Being in New Zealand I have to pretty much rely on internet based sources: most of the time on ebay, but we make do with what we can.
I have a feeling the levelizer issue that may car has had many years ago is possibly a reason why some packards got parked up at the time. Possibly (a bit like the dana diff issue) is that the cars around today have had no issues or had their issues sorted long ago and thats why they're still around today. Back in the '60's or 70's when something went ping then it was probably bad news day for the poor old car.
I guess most of the cars around today have been good and reliable throughout their lives
Have come up with a fairly foolproof alternative anyway.