cb help needed

[elty001]

not used my cb for a couple of months,switched it on and it keeps alternating between channel 99 and 79
its a midland 38,80 channel(40 uk & 40 eu)
nothing has changed since the last time i used it.any ideas or it it at the end of its life.:nenau

 

[Deleted Member D]

Breaker breaker

not used my cb for a couple of months,switched it on and it keeps alternating between channel 99 and 79
its a midland 38,80 channel(40 uk & 40 eu)
nothing has changed since the last time i used it.any ideas or it it at the end of its life.:nenau

Mine did something similar a while back (same make) but I'd over screwed the left side screw that holds it into bracket. Ok now tho.
How old is yours ?

 

[elty001]

dont really know how old it is as i bought it second hand.will have a look at the thumb screws on each side and see if it makes any difference.cheers.

 

[elty001]

tried the screws on each side but its made no difference.
normally when you turn it off and on again it comes on,on channel 15 uk.but its not showing the eu/uk symbol.:nenau
gonna totally disconnect it and put a fag lighter socket on and see what happens.

 

[elty001]

sorted it

took it out and took it to bits to find that the eu/uk button had been pressed so hard it was stuck in (i know which little finger is responsible:lol)
all back together and working agian:thumbs

 

[zippy656]

took it out and took it to bits to find that the eu/uk button had been pressed so hard it was stuck in (i know which little finger is responsible:lol)
all back together and working agian:thumbs

hehehe ive 30 little fingers like that here


they have done all buttons on the tv like that..



glad i dont have a CB heheh:clap

 

[elty001]

little fingers

same here.my youngest daughter wants to use everything i do.got her some walkie talkies but she knows they are not the same and plays with big boys toys instead.

 

[Terranosaurus]

I have that problem too with my little girl Amy. With the HAM rig and CB I can give her whichever mic I'm not using and turn that rig off.

A few weeks before xmas I got a call from Alison my other half to say the clutch had gone on her scooby. As she was only about 2miles from home I thought I might as well go home (about 30miles) and tow her back in rather than her wait for the AA to come etc. Before I did I asked er a few questions and got her to try things etc, like did it feel like it was going into gear (eliminate linkage failure) what did clutch pedal feel like etc.

Anyway I got back home after a 40min drive, jumped in the terrano with a strap and some shackles and drove up. I had a sit in, clutch pedal felt fine, gear lever felt normal, could even feel it goinging into gear etc but absolutely no drove at all, not even a slipping clutch. Only thing I could think was the pressure plate had colapsed and there was no pressure being applied to the friction plate..

All the way back I'd been trying to weigh up what was best to do. Take it home and take the box out on my back in the garage, which would be fastest way of finding out what was wrong, take it to local garage but would have to wait till they had a slot or tow it down to Rotherham (40 miles) where I'd be able to use the ramp out of hours at a customer/friend of mine (maybe in hours if he was quiet. So now it was crunch time needed to make a decision, decided to take it home and do it there so started to get out so I could tow and Alison sit in it for the journey back and just as I did I saw out of the corner of my eye that the transfer lever wasn't in the rcorrect place, it was pulle dup a fraction. Amy had pulled it and put it in neutral. The non turbo scoobies have low and high box like big 4x4s only the lever is really easy to move with no indent or anything.

So that was a wasted day for work - stayed at home in the end and did paperwork.

 

[floyd500b]

Oh- well these things happen i guess

Graham

 

[makeitfit]

Kids

Those pesky kids
A few years ago I was helping out on the safety boat for my sailing club. While on the water my youngest was trying to find me ...with the VHF :augie
He'd been using it with us on the boat before but hadn't worked out the channels to use etc.
Anyway he was happily chating to the a north wales coast guard for some time!
Eventually the coastguard got hold of the local auxilary coastguard and he knew me. So eventually I got a call on the VHF from the club via the aux coastgaurd via north wales via my hand held just up the beach:clap:clap
Needless to say I was suitable repremanded
Still love him though grrr:doh

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

one of my old cbs used to move up a channel when it got warm the channel display
would stay same but were transmitting one up. great fun. others seem to have died
whilst out of use in storage. still got a nice box come museum accumulating an
ironically my first set a 27/81 from 81 still works, or did last time tested....