thank you for showing and fixing somewhat unusual items that apparently few people care about or can fix. your channel is a very valuable resource for this!
Be interesting for a signature move to put a mark of a heart on one of the gears you repair the robots with. As the gear spins it sends love in all directions.❤
This was very interesting! I've never seen the trick before. Amazing what a complicated device they made to make it work. You did an excellent job fixing it back up!
When I was in my late teens, I worked for a local car audio & alarm installation shop where I cannot even remember how many of those car power antenna masts I had to replace. Folks would drive their car through the car wash, but forget to lower their power antenna all the way down. I believe that the antenna mast replacement job cost roughly $75.00 dollars, so not cheap back then. By the way, Harada antennas were primarily used in the European import cars. Thanks for showing us this neat magic prop Randi. Fred
I can remember the time of mechanical antennas and the issues with car washes. Funny what you can pinpoint a period of time with. Thanks for the kind words.
There's so much I had to cut out. It would have been hours long if I left it all in. There was an old potentiometer on it too, that took me taking the thing apart just to figure out what it was. It was just going to the cam motor to adjust the speed slightly, I guess. I never saw much difference when changing it. It's tiny if there is. It's a strange piece for sure.
@ I gave up in the end and used an indestructible rubber type. The automatic ones have a very limited lifespan. At least yours isn’t out in the rain and snow!!
the blue wire on the circuit board is for radio turn on, most modern radios have an antenna wire, when you switch on the radio, the antenna goes up, and retracts when the radio is switched off,
@@RandiRain no frequency, just 12 volts from the stereo ,either on or off, the blue wire from the antenna detects 12 volts from the stereo, the circuit board that's in the antenna works a lot like those 5 pin cube on/on relays, expect it's more compact, and uses less current, it's been a while I've installed an antenna, so I'm going by memory, when power is added to the circuit board on the antenna(black/red), it's now on standby, when you touch the blue wire to positive, the antenna should go up, and when disconnected, it should retract by itself, the circuit board just changes the polarity on the motor when power is added/removed at the blue wire, looks like it's done with mosfets, or some type of transistor by the way, love your channel! really enjoy the work that you do! so awesome to see these all these old toys getting a new lease on life! I own a one of those Robie Sr. robots new still in the box, that's what turn me to your page! 😀
with the arial motor you bought, if memory serves me correctly it would be positive lead, negative lead, and power from the car radio that when the car radio is switched on would make the green/blue wire send a signal to the ariel of think it is +/- 5 volts, so that it provides positive or negative 5 volts to move the motor up or down when switching on/off the radio, but that is if my memory serves me correctly after nearly 30 years since doing car maintenance. but from memory if it is correct, then the arial power lead out of the radio was on a completely different circuit, so you couldn't chuck a cheap radio in a $2m car and expect the arial to go up and down, you had to get a radio usually more expensive brands would have the circuit to allow you to fit a powered arial.
the car antenna is both the most genius and lazy thing I have seen. And this is one of the most overcomplicated forms to make it work, it was like turning on a model T ford
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That's fun!
Thank you.
that's all so clever. Love the repurposed antenna motor in this contraption. Thanks Randi.
Yeah, I'm trying to think what I can do with it.
thank you for showing and fixing somewhat unusual items that apparently few people care about or can fix. your channel is a very valuable resource for this!
Thank you very much.
Very entertaining. Thank you.
Be interesting for a signature move to put a mark of a heart on one of the gears you repair the robots with. As the gear spins it sends love in all directions.❤
This was very interesting! I've never seen the trick before. Amazing what a complicated device they made to make it work. You did an excellent job fixing it back up!
It would have been so much easier to just program a chip to make it go up and down.
The Man with Two Brains clip
(Uumellmahaye)
plus the "Maybe there will be square nails in here too" comeback.
Haha
Great video!
When I was in my late teens, I worked for a local car audio & alarm installation shop where I cannot even remember how many of those car power antenna masts I had to replace. Folks would drive their car through the car wash, but forget to lower their power antenna all the way down. I believe that the antenna mast replacement job cost roughly $75.00 dollars, so not cheap back then. By the way, Harada antennas were primarily used in the European import cars. Thanks for showing us this neat magic prop Randi. Fred
I can remember the time of mechanical antennas and the issues with car washes. Funny what you can pinpoint a period of time with. Thanks for the kind words.
good one :)
I was thinking at first the thing that flings the cards was a heatsink and wondered what the heck got so hot that it needed one. 😆
There's so much I had to cut out. It would have been hours long if I left it all in. There was an old potentiometer on it too, that took me taking the thing apart just to figure out what it was. It was just going to the cam motor to adjust the speed slightly, I guess. I never saw much difference when changing it. It's tiny if there is. It's a strange piece for sure.
I once attempted to fix my old auto ariel on my car so I feel your pain!!
I wonder how many cars the generic one actually fits. It's probably a hassle.
@ I gave up in the end and used an indestructible rubber type. The automatic ones have a very limited lifespan. At least yours isn’t out in the rain and snow!!
the blue wire on the circuit board is for radio turn on, most modern radios have an antenna wire, when you switch on the radio, the antenna goes up, and retracts when the radio is switched off,
So, the circuit is just detecting some sort of frequency?
@@RandiRain no frequency, just 12 volts from the stereo ,either on or off, the blue wire from the antenna detects 12 volts from the stereo, the circuit board that's in the antenna works a lot like those 5 pin cube on/on relays, expect it's more compact, and uses less current, it's been a while I've installed an antenna, so I'm going by memory, when power is added to the circuit board on the antenna(black/red), it's now on standby, when you touch the blue wire to positive, the antenna should go up, and when disconnected, it should retract by itself, the circuit board just changes the polarity on the motor when power is added/removed at the blue wire, looks like it's done with mosfets, or some type of transistor
by the way, love your channel! really enjoy the work that you do! so awesome to see these all these old toys getting a new lease on life! I own a one of those Robie Sr. robots new still in the box, that's what turn me to your page! 😀
with the arial motor you bought, if memory serves me correctly it would be positive lead, negative lead, and power from the car radio that when the car radio is switched on would make the green/blue wire send a signal to the ariel of think it is +/- 5 volts, so that it provides positive or negative 5 volts to move the motor up or down when switching on/off the radio, but that is if my memory serves me correctly after nearly 30 years since doing car maintenance. but from memory if it is correct, then the arial power lead out of the radio was on a completely different circuit, so you couldn't chuck a cheap radio in a $2m car and expect the arial to go up and down, you had to get a radio usually more expensive brands would have the circuit to allow you to fit a powered arial.
You are like the Toy polloi of the electronics toy world
At least the electro-mechanical.
the car antenna is both the most genius and lazy thing I have seen. And this is one of the most overcomplicated forms to make it work, it was like turning on a model T ford
Yeah, I've been thinking what I can use it for.
Amazing Randi😊
Thank you.