I have a President Washington CB. The am, lsb, usb knob or button is
hard to turn. Their nothing wrong with the knob. Maybe only the
design. It too round and I can not get a good grip on it. Often I use a
cloth to grip it to turn.

Now, I am thinking about taking off the knob and replacing it with a
chicken head or what ever more narrow knob I would find.

I would like to know if I could simply use a small flat driver and pry
off the knob?

I hope that I do not have to open up the radio.

SR

"SR" wrote in message
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I have a President Washington CB. The am, lsb, usb knob or button is
hard to turn. Their nothing wrong with the knob. Maybe only the
design. It too round and I can not get a good grip on it. Often I use a
cloth to grip it to turn.

Now, I am thinking about taking off the knob and replacing it with a
chicken head or what ever more narrow knob I would find.

I would like to know if I could simply use a small flat driver and pry
off the knob?

I hope that I do not have to open up the radio.

The knob may just lift off, or it may have a set screw that must be backed
off before removing the knob.

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:10:50 -0400, SR wrote:

I have a President Washington CB. The am, lsb, usb knob or button is
hard to turn. Their nothing wrong with the knob. Maybe only the
design. It too round and I can not get a good grip on it. Often I use a
cloth to grip it to turn.

Now, I am thinking about taking off the knob and replacing it with a
chicken head or what ever more narrow knob I would find.

I would like to know if I could simply use a small flat driver and pry
off the knob?

I hope that I do not have to open up the radio.

SR

If it doesn't pry off easily, you might want to try roughing
up the smooth knob with some large-grit sandpaper to give you a better
grip,

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:06:03 -0400, SR wrote:

I can not pry off the knob, it's too in the radio. I am now trying to
see it I could make some kind of a small clamp that can work as a lever.
This would give me leverage to turn to the knob for ssb operations.

Any ideas?


File flats on either side of the knob?

SR

DesignGuy wrote:

"SR" wrote in message
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I have a President Washington CB. The am, lsb, usb knob or button is
hard to turn. Their nothing wrong with the knob. Maybe only the
design. It too round and I can not get a good grip on it. Often I use a
cloth to grip it to turn.

Now, I am thinking about taking off the knob and replacing it with a
chicken head or what ever more narrow knob I would find.

I would like to know if I could simply use a small flat driver and pry
off the knob?

I hope that I do not have to open up the radio.


The knob may just lift off, or it may have a set screw that must be backed
off before removing the knob.

wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:10:50 -0400, SR wrote:

I have a President Washington CB. The am, lsb, usb knob or button is
hard to turn. Their nothing wrong with the knob. Maybe only the
design. It too round and I can not get a good grip on it. Often I use a
cloth to grip it to turn.

Now, I am thinking about taking off the knob and replacing it with a
chicken head or what ever more narrow knob I would find.

I would like to know if I could simply use a small flat driver and pry
off the knob?

I hope that I do not have to open up the radio.

SR

If it doesn't pry off easily, you might want to try roughing
up the smooth knob with some large-grit sandpaper to give you a better
grip,

After checking to see theres no fixing grub screws try biting it and pulling
it off with your teeth, that shouldnt mark the knob... careful you dont
swallow it though....... (ooh err matron ;o)
If your not bothered about the original knob pull it off with a pair of
pliers.....

Yeah,file some flats on the knob.Or cut a piece of lever shaped plywood
and cut a hole in the plywood lever and epoxy the piece of plywood on to
the knob.You could always use a big old pair of Visegrip pliers to turn
that knob too. www.devilfinder.com Visegrip Pliers
cuhulin