Where do the battery covers go?
 

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:35:48 -0500, "Unrevealed Source"
wrote:

Just curious - I notice that some of the radios on eBay are described as
missing the battery cover. I'm just curious; where do they go? I can
understand missing manuals, broken antennas, etc. But how do you lose a
battery cover? Would anyone ever take one off and then set it aside,
instead of putting it back on the radio? Anyone here ever "misplaced" one?

Parallel universe.

"Unrevealed Source" wrote in message
...

Anyone here ever "misplaced" one?

No but I picked up a mint DX380 (Sangean 505) at an estate sale for $5
because it didn't have the covers. Luckily the shack still had the covers
and the pouch/cover for it. Just last week I saw a real clean Lafayette (a
blast from the past) portable at an estate sale minus it's covers, didn't
feel like I would be lucky enough to come up with covers so left it
sit and walked out the door with a real clean Versa tuner 2 for $5. RM~

Ha well done David -- but don't forget the two most offending gremlins

The kids and the dawg

--
C. L. - Reader Beware
--
I doubt, therefore I might be !




"David Stinson" wrote in message
news:b9hZd.5042$b_6.1050@trnddc01...


Unrevealed Source wrote:

... But how do you lose a
battery cover? ....

There are "cover gremlins," just as there are sock
gremlins and screw gremlins. You can disassemble a radio,
put it back together and you usually will either have
screws that mysteriously go missing, or extra screws
that don't seem to go anywhere. The Screw Gremlins,
which live on the inside of the power sockets nearest
your bench, either take screws from you or
leave ones with which they have become bored.
They consider this a "fair exchange" over time.
Same with Sock Gremlins: put three matched pairs
of socks in the dryer and out will come either
two pairs and one odd sock, one pair and four
unmatched socks, seven odd socks or any other
combination. Cover Gremlins are, however,
much more greedy; they almost never return your
covers and, if they do, they break them first.
There is no cure for them; they are just
a fact of the radio life.
The Duct Tape Gremlins do help somewhat with
this problem; they are responsible
for the five or six loose, partial rolls of duct tape
you can always find if you move stuff around enough.
Sympathies,
David S.

They get lost the same way radio knobs and socks get lost.The same way
nuts and bolts and washers and all kinds of crap get lost when I am
working on my old wrecks on the ground in my back yard.
cuhulin

It's a well orchestrated conspiracy spearheaded by the duct (duck) tape
industry.

In article hvgZd.55219$xt.53572@fed1read07, says...
You obviously don't own a dawg or have any children.




It's kind of funny, I used to have a dog that was a chewing machine. I
got him on April 15th of 1985, and that night, I insanely bought a new
car! In the first week, he ate a hunk of carpet about 12"x18", and the
sound deadener sheet under it(asphalt and recycled fibers), the door
panel on the back rear door and he also chewed off the door handle too,
along with the radio wiring when the original radio died and I was
waiting for the replacement. He ate furniture, carpet, wall trim, a door
edge in the house, and housebreaking took forever. Finally, after
destroying a lot of stuff, he finally stopped, and housebreaking
followed soon after. It took about a year to get him to always poop
outside!

I guess most people would have gotten rid of him, but he turned out to
be my favorite dog of all, and lived to 14.5 years. I got a break with
the two I have now, they chewed about 3 days, and didn't have the jaw
power the last one did. Housebreaking took a week..

But he never, ever touched one of my radios, or the half dozen coaxes
that he could get to, or the power cords. My cat found out that biting a
live power cord isn't fun. It knocked him across the room and he
screamed louder than I thought he possibly could. Other than some minor
burns on his mouth, he was fine, but he never bit a cord again! If you
have ever had the "Pulp Tester" at the dentist, you can imagine what it
must have felt like.

They didn't need to use a drill in the movie "Marathon Man", the pulp
tester was worse, and left no marks! I have had it twice, and I came
very close to kicking the Dentist's ass when he touched it to the tooth
a second time. The pulp tester is used to see if a tooth is still alive,
and if it is, it's unbelievable. I've had some 3rd degree burns on my
right hand (making my own fireworks, DUMB!!), and it was a picnic
compared to the pulp tester. Nothing I have ever felt has come close to
the pulp tester for sheer pain. At least it only lasts a second or so..

A friend thought I was BSing about it until he fell and knocked three of
his teeth loose. He didn't go to the Dentist until three days later, and
he found out the meaning of pain! LOL, now he knows I wasn't
exaggerating!

BDK

They didn't need to use a drill in the movie "Marathon Man",

Me: three root canals.

Actually, I don't fear root canals, as they alleviate the pain. They
are nothing to be afraid of.

They are small, and fall out and get lost. Thin plastic tabs that hold
them in place may break off. Lots of reasons. Same reasons they seem
to disapper from remote controls.


Unrevealed Source wrote:
Just curious - I notice that some of the radios on eBay are described
as
missing the battery cover. I'm just curious; where do they go? I
can
understand missing manuals, broken antennas, etc. But how do you
lose a
battery cover? Would anyone ever take one off and then set it aside,
instead of putting it back on the radio? Anyone here ever
"misplaced" one?

US,

I don't think it's any mean trick to make a new/replacement battery
cover.Hey,it's a plastic world nowdays.Just find a piece of scrap
plastic and hacksaw it to size so it will fit properly and there ya go!
You could even start up your own battery cover replacements factory.
cuhulin

wrote:

I don't think it's any mean trick to make a new/replacement battery
cover.Hey,it's a plastic world nowdays.Just find a piece of scrap
plastic and hacksaw it to size so it will fit properly and there ya go!
You could even start up your own battery cover replacements factory.
cuhulin

You first.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Try one from an Army Dentist in the field

No Numbing at all!


wrote in message
oups.com...
They didn't need to use a drill in the movie "Marathon Man",

Me: three root canals.

Actually, I don't fear root canals, as they alleviate the pain. They
are nothing to be afraid of.

Unrevealed Source wrote:

Just curious - I notice that some of the radios on eBay are described as
missing the battery cover. I'm just curious; where do they go? I can
understand missing manuals, broken antennas, etc. But how do you lose a
battery cover? Would anyone ever take one off and then set it aside,
instead of putting it back on the radio? Anyone here ever "misplaced" one?

They go into a black hole under the bed along with single socks.

----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups
----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----

In article .com,
says...
They didn't need to use a drill in the movie "Marathon Man",

Me: three root canals.

Actually, I don't fear root canals, as they alleviate the pain. They
are nothing to be afraid of.




I've had two root canals, I was sucker punched and two of my front teeth
were starting to dissolve by the roots, and that was the first time the
pulp tester came out. Actually, the three crowns I have have been worse
than the root canals by far.

BDK

I had a root canal thingy done to me when I was at Fort Gordon,Georgia
in 1962.I remember walking from one clinic to another clinic in that
building and I had a little piece of plastic sheet or whatever it was
rigged over my mouth that the U.S.Army dentist guy had put on there.
cuhulin

wrote in message
...
I had a root canal thingy done to me when I was at Fort Gordon,Georgia
in 1962.I remember walking from one clinic to another clinic in that
building and I had a little piece of plastic sheet or whatever it was
rigged over my mouth that the U.S.Army dentist guy had put on there.

That wasn't a dentist. And that "whatever it was" is called a gag.

I reckon you was there too,eh? Wasen't a U.S.Army Dentist at Fort
Gordon,Georgia where I had my root canal operation in November 1962? I
had to go to Saigon when I was at Shannon Wright Compound in 1964 for
more dental work because of my bad teeth.Guess what? There were U.S.Army
Dentist's there too.Do you think U.S.Navy and U.S.Air Force and
U.S.Marines do not have their Dentist's too? There are some folks in
this news group whom were in those Branches of our U.S.Military,ask
them.You sure do live under a rock.
cuhulin

wrote in message
...
I reckon you was there too,eh? Wasen't a U.S.Army Dentist at Fort
Gordon,Georgia where I had my root canal operation in November 1962? I
had to go to Saigon when I was at Shannon Wright Compound in 1964 for
more dental work because of my bad teeth.Guess what? There were U.S.Army
Dentist's there too.Do you think U.S.Navy and U.S.Air Force and
U.S.Marines do not have their Dentist's too? There are some folks in
this news group whom were in those Branches of our U.S.Military,ask
them.You sure do live under a rock.

And you've sure got the intellect of one.

I have a hell of a lot more intelligence than you will ever have,YOU
FREAK!
cuhulin

wrote in message
...
I have a hell of a lot more intelligence than you will ever have,YOU
FREAK!

Then why didn't you get the joke?

In article QXCZd.5898$mq2.3785@trnddc08, honus1
@earthlink.net.is.invalid says...

wrote in message
...
I have a hell of a lot more intelligence than you will ever have,YOU
FREAK!

Then why didn't you get the joke?






I have to admit, I have no idea what has him all worked up, and why
didn't he get the joke??

BDK

BTW, I think that thing was actually called a "dental dam". Might be
wrong...

wrote in message
...
Duct Tape the batteries in.Which reminds me,I am going to the Home Depot
store tomorrow for house paint and other supplies and I need to buy a
roll of Duct Tape so I can Duct Tape my broom to one end of my long
aluminum telescoping handle and use some warm water with bleach and
detergent and get that mildew off of my house before I start painting.I
will then hose off my house with my water hose after I demildew it and
then I will Duct Tape a paint roller to my long aluminum telescoping
handle and paint my house.I won't even need to get on my roof,I can
reach those high up areas standing flat footed on the ground.A man needs
only two tools in life.If it moves and it shouldn't,use the Duct Tape.If
it doesn't move and it should,use the WD-40.
cuhulin


If you really want to kill that mildew for good, you definitely should
put some Trisodium Phosphate (TSP) in with the bleach and water.

73,

Steve-o

www.dogpile.com U.S.Army Dentist Tan Son Nhut Vietnam 1964
I don't know what that piece of plastic on my mouth was called.It
wasen't like I was interested in finding out either,I only wanted to get
my dental work done and get on out of there.When y'all go to the
dentist,do y'all ask,Hey doc,what the heck is that called? what is that
one? doc would give y'all some strange looks too.Those dentist folks
have their dental tools/instruments they use and I don't care what they
are called.I got my old house demildewed this morning and rinsed my
house off with my garden hose.I got wetter than wet too.I am taking the
rest of the day off from working on my house.I need to let it dry off
real good anyway before I start painting on it and Dave on the JT and
Dave radio talk show www.supertalkms.com just now said rain is
predicted for today and tomorrow. www.wapt.com weather forecast
thingy.
cuhulin

Only assuming,but I assume that piece of plastic was used to keep blood
and crap from messing up my Fatigues.Other than that,I don't know.You
never spend a dry day in the part of Vietnam I was in,it is always just
like a steam kettle over there,day and night,every day and night of the
year.You are always sweating.
cuhulin

You are right about the TSP.I forgot all about that.I have a little
gadget I can connect between two of my garden hoses and I can mix some
TSP with water and spray my house with that.I might do that.
cuhulin

In article ,
says...
Only assuming,but I assume that piece of plastic was used to keep blood
and crap from messing up my Fatigues.Other than that,I don't know.You
never spend a dry day in the part of Vietnam I was in,it is always just
like a steam kettle over there,day and night,every day and night of the
year.You are always sweating.
cuhulin



Actually, if it was during a root canal, it was partly that, but mostly
to keep you from swallowing or choking on the bleach they use to clean
out the inside of the tooth. I got a mouthful of it when the dentist
tried to remove it, and had to get muscular with the clamp thing, and it
shot a little of it into the back of my mouth. It burned and tasted
terrible..

BDK

"BDK" wrote in message
...
In article QXCZd.5898$mq2.3785@trnddc08, honus1
@earthlink.net.is.invalid says...

wrote in message
...
I have a hell of a lot more intelligence than you will ever have,YOU
FREAK!

Then why didn't you get the joke?






I have to admit, I have no idea what has him all worked up, and why
didn't he get the joke??

BDK

BTW, I think that thing was actually called a "dental dam". Might be
wrong...

That's what I was thinking it was, although they're made out of rubber
rather than plastic. And he's all worked because he hates my guts. There
could be several reasons why he didn't get the joke. It may have been too
subtle, it may have been written at a level beyond his comprehension, it
might not have been funny and so he didn't recognize it as one, or maybe
he's just plain dumb. Of course, there could be any number of other reasons
as well, and a combination of any of them should be considered.

If instead you mean what makes me -think- that he didn't get the joke, I'll
say the voice of experience. ;)

wrote in message
...
www.dogpile.com U.S.Army Dentist Tan Son Nhut Vietnam 1964
I don't know what that piece of plastic on my mouth was called.

Here you go, fella.

http://scc.uchicago.edu/dentaldam.htm

In article 8nMZd.6053$mq2.1716@trnddc08, honus1
@earthlink.net.is.invalid says...

"BDK" wrote in message
...
In article QXCZd.5898$mq2.3785@trnddc08, honus1
@earthlink.net.is.invalid says...

wrote in message
...
I have a hell of a lot more intelligence than you will ever have,YOU
FREAK!

Then why didn't you get the joke?






I have to admit, I have no idea what has him all worked up, and why
didn't he get the joke??

BDK

BTW, I think that thing was actually called a "dental dam". Might be
wrong...

That's what I was thinking it was, although they're made out of rubber
rather than plastic. And he's all worked because he hates my guts. There
could be several reasons why he didn't get the joke. It may have been too
subtle, it may have been written at a level beyond his comprehension, it
might not have been funny and so he didn't recognize it as one, or maybe
he's just plain dumb. Of course, there could be any number of other reasons
as well, and a combination of any of them should be considered.

If instead you mean what makes me -think- that he didn't get the joke, I'll
say the voice of experience. ;)







And why does he hate your guts? Politics??

BDK