Thread: Wooden case for a car radio

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
s-l400.jpg

Originally Posted by NCArcher

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
s-l400.jpg

Perfect! Many thanks!

mick

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.

Originally Posted by NCArcher

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?

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

Originally Posted by Glider

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.

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

Originally Posted by Glider

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!

Originally Posted by NCArcher

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

Originally Posted by Glider

Off to the internet.

mick

Just visit your local car wreaker. There can't be much of a demand for old radio mounts.

Originally Posted by GraemeCook

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.

Originally Posted by notevensquare

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

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