Daley Ponderings

I finally got around to taking apart our radio in our car that has had a CD stuck in it since we purchased the car.  The dashboard came out unexpectedly easily, so I should have done it a long time ago -- I had been intimidated by not seeing any obvious screws, but when I yanked on it, everything just popped off. 

Taking apart the radio took some more work, but eventually the front panel came off (the volume knob had been semi-glued on by the last guy to work on it (in 1995, a mechanic in Orlando).

The CD came out easily enough, and I discovered that I had forgotten that Jonathan had stuffed a bunch of coins in the CD slot a year or so ago.  We had gotten some of them out, but there was still $.30 left in it.

I plugged the radio back in and the cd player accepts the cd (barely) and refuses to spin up or eject it.

So, we will probably be getting a new radio, maybe this one, since a friend just bought one, and he has liked it so far. He said to wait a little bit and see if he continues to like it - and I'll probably go check it out as well.