Then I took it out of the trash.
I peeled off the felt on the bottom and removed the steel plate.
A screw holds each antenna on.
I drilled out the rivet head.
Then punched out the rivet.
Leaving me with one telescoping antenna.
I counterbored a piece of steel to accept a magnet.
And drilled the other end to be a slip fit over the antenna end.
The parts...
Epoxied together. Now I have a slightly cumbersome telescoping magnetic pickup just like one that you could buy at the dollar store.
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I'm telling you, if there ever is a huge calamity, like say on the level of "Mad Max" I am so coming to live by you..you will be able to make ANYTHING!!
Cool.
Far superior to some philosophaster's 50 pages of wheezing on the is-ought problem (see Sirius for examples of wheezebagism).
And CS Peirce would most likely approve
Well done! I too enjoy solving problems for no real reason (namely money) like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/74108677@N00/3357412218/in/photostream/
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