Junkyard Adventures!

Whilst driving home from work one day, the control knob on my car heater busted. Damn. So I took it upon myself to glue it together.

...Bad Idea... The plastic was too weakened to hold together, but for future reference, It does a smashing job of gluing my fingers to the side of the glue tube. I had to run my fingers under hot water and gently pry the fastened fingers to the tube.

So I had a crazy idea instead. I'd drive out to the junkyard and pick up a new knob. While there, I could also pick up a new overhead lamp and headlight control. But thats not all! My mother's car antenna was broken off by some slack jawed car wash guy. So there.

Grabbed my toolbox and showed up at the junkyard. The guy looked in inside the toolbox, inspected the random tools I've gathered and with a look of pity, let me in without even charging me a dollar for admission. The yard was full of cars, none that seemed to match what I needed. So I wandered throughout the yard and noticed that I wasn't the only one to think about removing the heater control knobs. In fact, it was a fairly common idea, since every car I saw was missing the heater knobs. So much for thinking outside the box.

The process was harrowing. I'd think "There's no way I'll find this part..." quickly followed by "Hey, there is it!" I repeated this process many times. Suprisingly, I found everything on my list.

Even more suprisingly, I installed everything, including an antenna for my mothers car. I had to hammer the living hell out of the mounting bracket and the Antenna sits at a 15 degree angle, but Its installed. :D