Date:         Thu, 3 Jun 2010 07:31:22 -0700
Reply-To:     Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Dake Collins <wuwe423@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Radio removal help pls?  Premium IV radio
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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David,
I don't know if this will work in your case; this worked for me. I've got more coat hangers than sheet metal so I cut two 6" pieces of hanger wire, put them on an anvil, wailed on them with a hammer until flat, filed down the edges until they fit in the slots. I hope this helped.
Dake

'84 Westy - Wu Wei

--- On Wed, 6/2/10, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Radio removal help pls?  Premium IV radio
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 10:40 PM

I just stuck in one of those $30 VW radios that someone pointed to a
few weeks ago, in place of the existing Heidelberg V.  More on that
later, but the short version is "Great."

Foolishly I forgot to determine precisely how to get the sucker out
again -- it has the newer thin vertical slots in the faceplate to
release the catches.

Does anyone have a dimension drawing or a decent photograph of the
tool needed to do this?  I've got more sheet metal than money just
now and anyway I'm cheap in a certain idiosyncratic way...

Yours,
David