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Re: Fitting Car Radio Shafts ?

To: Curtis Carlson <carlson@navtech.com>
Subject: Re: Fitting Car Radio Shafts ?
From: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:02:10 -0400
Cc: spridget list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
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Reply-to: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>
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Yup.

EXCEPT ... the radio is all the way back in the colsole.
All the way front, too.

chuck

Curtis Carlson wrote:
> 
> Isn't there some way that you could add spacers between the radio and the
> console so that it fits farther back into the console?  Seems to me that if
> this is possible, if you have space to move it back say an inch or so, that
> this would be the easier way to go.
> 
> Curt
> 
> Curtis Carlson
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chuck Ciaffone <chuckc@ibm.net>
> To: spridget list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 3:48 PM
> Subject: Fitting Car Radio Shafts ?
> 
> > Now don't get me wrong, here. The radio has been in
> > for weeks now, and is doing just fine, thank you.
> >
> >
> > <rant>BUTTTTT ... because of the lack-of-depth in the console,
> > and the length of even the shortest modern car audio units,
> > With the mounting plate in place, the left and right threaded
> > shafts that mount the radio and that house the on/off/volume
> > and tuning shafts, stick way, way, WAY out (like an inch or
> > so) before terminating in the plastic knobs.
> >
> > whew! end of rant! </rant>
> >
> > Seems to me ... I should be able to shorten the threaded
> > tubes with a tubing cutter, and then "clip off" the control
> > "tangs" that are inside.  In fact, seems to me didn't old
> > replacement radios came with shafts that were slightly
> > detented to be broken or cut off to shorten them?
> >
> > Anybody out there shed a little light on this? How to shorten
> > the tuning chafts on an auto radio?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > chuck
> >

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