Antenna loose?? - Treo Forums

plunker · 02-03-2006, 11:03 PM

My antenna seems to catch on everything and anything. It is now slightly loose. How do I tighten it up? Or do I have to live with it this way?

kabeyun · 02-07-2006, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by plunker

My antenna seems to catch on everything and anything. It is now slightly loose. How do I tighten it up? Or do I have to live with it this way?

1. replace it (costly)
2. live with it (irritating)
3. get a micro-torx wrench, open it up, void the warrantee, and fool around with it yourself (costly & irritating)
4. then, there is a fourth option...

-K

plunker · 02-08-2006, 01:21 AM

I've used that 4th option before in Mexico and it got us back home.

WE busted a leaf spring on a boat trailer and the fender was rubbing the tire. We lifted the trailer up, wedged a stick (cactus stalk) under the spring and used .....duct tape to hold it together. It lasted over 400 miles or until we fixed it at home.

georgepink · 02-08-2006, 05:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by plunker

I've used that 4th option before in Mexico and it got us back home.

WE busted a leaf spring on a boat trailer and the fender was rubbing the tire. We lifted the trailer up, wedged a stick (cactus stalk) under the spring and used .....duct tape to hold it together. It lasted over 400 miles or until we fixed it at home.

Please don't let this turn into a 'what I did with duct tape' thread.

the antennas I've seen on ebay were not extremly costly, but void warranty...yes, pain in the butt...yes. have you brought it to the store yet to check what they would charge? if anything?

plunker · 02-08-2006, 01:09 PM

No I have not checked with a treo store, the antenna is only a little loose. In fact I think a little dirt or grime has gotten under it because it seems tight right now.

I am sorry you have issues with the world famous duct tape that fixes,Cures and mends all................

kabeyun · 02-08-2006, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by plunker

I've used that 4th option before in Mexico and it got us back home.

WE busted a leaf spring on a boat trailer and the fender was rubbing the tire. We lifted the trailer up, wedged a stick (cactus stalk) under the spring and used .....duct tape to hold it together. It lasted over 400 miles or until we fixed it at home.

Let me tell you, you're right on! That stuff is amazing. And we have so much left, since the Bush administration colluded with duct tape manufacturers, scaring us into buying up rolls of duct tape to prevent ingress of gas from a post-9/11 chemical attack. (True.)

In the words of Tim Allen, "If you can't fix it, DUCK IT!"

-K

P.S. So what's wrong with a thread about the usefulness of duck tape?

georgepink · 02-08-2006, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kabeyun

Let me tell you, you're right on! That stuff is amazing. And we have so much left, since the Bush administration colluded with duct tape manufacturers, scaring us into buying up rolls of duct tape to prevent ingress of gas from a post-9/11 chemical attack. (True.)

In the words of Tim Allen, "If you can't fix it, DUCK IT!"

-K

P.S. So what's wrong with a thread about the usefulness of duck tape?

Now I can truly die....having heard it all. You have actually managed to turn Duct Tape into a political conspiracy....democrats!

Maddogmike · 02-08-2006, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by georgepink

Now I can truly die....having heard it all. You have actually managed to turn Duct Tape into a political conspiracy....democrats!

Easy, George! if it wasn't for them 'dems, we wouldn't need a government! Capitalism would rule, welfare folks would go to work, and the illeg...er.. "undocumented residents" would be forced to look for work elsewhere!!

Then who would feed all those hungry senators, congressmen, representatives, lobbiest, etc....

Maddog, LIBERTARIAN!

kabeyun · 02-09-2006, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by georgepink

Now I can truly die....having heard it all. You have actually managed to turn Duct Tape into a political conspiracy....democrats!

I didn't do anything ('cept maybe exaggerate a little):

From the Washington Post, 2/21/2003, p A25...

The GOP Home Shopping Network

That most lamentable duct tape suggestion last week by a Homeland Security official -- which drove countless panicked citizens out to buy the product -- has been widely derided as useless and pretty crazy.

But maybe not so crazy. Turns out that nearly half -- 46 percent to be precise -- of the duct tape sold in this country is manufactured by a company in Avon, Ohio. And the founder of that company, that would be Jack Kahl, gave how much to the Republican National Committee and other GOP committees in the 2000 election cycle? Would that be more than $100,000?

His son, John Kahl, who became CEO after his father stepped down shortly after the election, told CNBC last week that "we're seeing a doubling and tripling of our sales, particularly in certain metro markets and around the coasts and borders." The plant has "gone to a 24/7 operation, which is about a 40 percent increase" over this time last year, Kahl said. The company had more than $300 million in sales in 2001.

And Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge keeps pushing the product. "You may want to have a safe shelter for four or six hours," he told PBS's Jim Lehrer on Wednesday, "until . . . the chemical plume moves on." So "you may need that duct tape."

Even if you don't want to suffocate in a shelter, there are myriad uses for the sticky stuff. The March Consumer Reports on Health newsletter hails a new study "indicating that simply covering warts with duct tape . . . works significantly better than the common chemical freezing therapy. "It's worth trying," the newsletter says.

Clearly not useless. And crazy? Like a fox. Wonder who manufactures all that plastic sheeting.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maddogmike

Easy, George! if it wasn't for them 'dems, we wouldn't need a government! Capitalism would rule, welfare folks would go to work, and the illeg...er.. "undocumented residents" would be forced to look for work elsewhere

Right! And our record-setting deficit would make the dollar valueless; and science class would teach creationism, alchemy & astrology instead of evolution, chemistry & astronomy (or at least they'd "let the kids choose"); and there'd be a proliferation of honest corporations like Enron & Tyco; and we'd cut our seniors & retirees loose; and the party of "small government" would get into your classroom, bedroom, uterus, house of worship, telephone line, and copy of the U.S. Constitution. Sounds like friggin' nirvana.

Just playing devil's advocate. If anyone, be they Dem, Rep, Lib, Con, Green, Anarchist, or whatever, thinks their side has all the answers, they're nuts.

And back to the topic at hand, I think a wire coat hanger makes a groovy antenna. Hey, works great on my car! Why should a Treo be any different?

-K

Maddogmike · 02-09-2006, 05:15 PM

K,

That was great, Thanks!

As for the coathanger..... That's the next biggest "fixall" to Duct tape!

I shudder to think what I would have to do, who I would have to pay, excuses I would need to invent.... if the WIRE coathanger ever went "extinct"...

I even bent and used one this pass weekend to fish a lost wire from under my office desk!! Can't do that with one of them thar "wooden" hangers!!!

uhmm...... what were we talking about????

Maddog