[Strk321]

“The plastic knob on the channel selector broke, so a vise-grip on the post from the tuner is used as it is too hard to turn with just fingers.”

I see. I actually did something similar once with a dot matrix printer that was missing the paper feed knob.

What’s the make and vintage of your TV?

[OneVike]

“The plastic knob on the channel selector broke, so a vise-grip on the post from the tuner is used as it is too hard to turn with just fingers.”

I see. I actually did something similar once with a dot matrix printer that was missing the paper feed knob.

What’s the make and vintage of your TV?

I had a portable 13 inch TV I kept in the garage of a Mobile service station when I worked as an auto mechanic after I got out of the service years ago. Well I used a small vice grip to turn the channel because the plastic knob was broken. At the same time I was using another small vice grip to open the window of my car because the gear was stripped and the handle would just spin without opening the window. So I had a vice grip permanently locked on the window gear and the TV channel gear at the same time.

Years later when I was hunting around a you pick it and you pull it junk yard for a sun visor that would match my wife's car, I found a small vice grip locked on the window gear of a car I found a visor.

I had a good chuckle because it reminded me of my that old car and that old TV some 30 years earlier. I ended up giving the junk yard dealer $3 for the visor, and when I related the story of my TV and car window, he let me keep the vice grip for free.

I always thought of vice grips as being the duct tape of the tool box.

[Roccus]

It was an Admiral. I don't still have it, but I just had to poke fun at someone who was braggin' about havin' a DIAL. };^)