Glider 4th June 2020, 04:04 PM After years of poor radio reception in my rural workshop, I bought a car radio, speakers, power supply and an external aerial to mount on the shed roof. It's all connected and working but it needs a cabinet.
The speakers are easily incorporated into the box but the radio unit itself needs a bit of thought to mount securely. I'm wondering of anyone else has done a similar thing and how did they fix and support the radio unit itself which is obviously designed to slide into a custom made slot in most cars.
mick
NCArcher 4th June 2020, 04:28 PM Radios are manufactured to standard sizes. You can get a folded metal bracket that the radio just slides into. Mount the bracket to the box and slide the radio in
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Glider 4th June 2020, 07:45 PM Radios are manufactured to standard sizes. You can get a folded metal bracket that the radio just slides into. Mount the bracket to the box and slide the radio in
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Perfect! Many thanks!
mick :))
NCArcher 4th June 2020, 11:17 PM Clearly you didn't spend half your younger years fitting stereos to all your cars and you mates cars and your girlfriends cars and your mates girlfriends cars.
Midnight Man 5th June 2020, 12:25 AM Clearly you didn't spend half your younger years fitting stereos to all your cars and you mates cars and your girlfriends cars and your mates girlfriends cars.
I thought everyone did that? It was a right of passage, wasn't it?
Glider 5th June 2020, 07:37 AM Obviously you blokes were raised in another time. In my day, any time spent on cars was used to keep them going and on the road and that's if we were lucky enough to own one in the first place! The only rites of passage involved knowing how to do a valve grind and decoke and replacing main and big end bearings on the rubbish which passed as cars in those days.
mick :)
AlexS 5th June 2020, 09:36 AM Obviously you blokes were raised in another time. In my day, any time spent on cars was used to keep them going and on the road and that's if we were lucky enough to own one in the first place! The only rites of passage involved knowing how to do a valve grind and decoke and replacing main and big end bearings on the rubbish which passed as cars in those days.
mick :)
Ah yes, the good old valve coke and de-grind.:rolleyes:
Glider 5th June 2020, 02:04 PM FWIW, the retail market has moved on from selling single DIN mounting frames for car radios. Supercheap, Repco, Jaycar and Whitworth Marine no longer sell them.
Off to the internet.
mick :(
GraemeCook 5th June 2020, 03:15 PM Obviously you blokes were raised in another time. In my day, ........ The only rites of passage involved knowing how to do a valve grind and decoke and replacing main and big end bearings on the rubbish which passed as cars in those days.
mick :)
So you had a Falcon, too!
notevensquare 5th June 2020, 03:43 PM Clearly you didn't spend half your younger years fitting stereos to all your cars and you mates cars and your girlfriends cars and your mates girlfriends cars.
Yeah but we usually used a couple of metal self tappers and went from the outside of the console directly into the radio or occasionally on a 4WD a couple of delicately placed roofing screws through the top of the dash (added something extra to the windscreen demister) none of these fancy brackets here thanks :D:2tsup:
Bohdan 5th June 2020, 04:01 PM Off to the internet.
mick :(
Just visit your local car wreaker. There can't be much of a demand for old radio mounts.
Glider 6th June 2020, 12:14 PM So you had a Falcon, too!
No Graeme, Pommy cars. 1948 Austin A40 Devon and then a 1952 Plus 4 Morgan. Both excellent off-road vehicles due to the time spent being fixed.
Yeah but we usually used a couple of metal self tappers and went from the outside of the console directly into the radio or occasionally on a 4WD a couple of delicately placed roofing screws through the top of the dash (added something extra to the windscreen demister) none of these fancy brackets here thanks :D:2tsup:
My early cars all had two demisters, the back of each of my hands!
Meanwhile, back on topic, I have the local boys in Oberon searching around for a second hand mounting frame. NCArcher, who DOES know what he's talking about, told me not to think about using ply or wood for mounting. Far too insecure. We'll get there.
mick :)
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