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Fusebreaker
Intermediate Member
Username: Fusebreaker
Post Number: 259
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 10:59 am: | 
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anyone no where or how to get a faceplate for a cobra 148gtl and replacement nitro knobs? |
Slugo4449
Intermediate Member
Username: Slugo4449
Post Number: 153
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 1:36 am: |
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I see them on online auctions sometimes |
Fusebreaker
Intermediate Member
Username: Fusebreaker
Post Number: 268
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 8:12 am: |
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thank you slim |
Vanillagorilla
Advanced Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 959
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 2:55 pm: |
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Depending on what your looking for...check the internet auction sites as there is ONE guy out there that sells just the faceplate (plastic reproduction but NICE) or the whole kit including faceplate attached to a new chrome bezel and knobs! The second kit is the one I bought and uses the factory parts instead of the repro faceplate.  ...
Made my 148GTL look like NEW!
Good luck!
Hank~CEF559
Long Island NY
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Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1417
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 6:53 pm: |
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I presently own 2 original 148-GTLs, and over the years have owned like 5 other 148s.
As of yet I haven't had one with a beat up faceplate. It takes a lot of banging to have to replace a faceplate, although like others have said, might want to check an auction site or some of the radio shop junk boxes.
Carl CEF-357
CVC-9 HAM-28
Flatlands of Oklahoma
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Fusebreaker
Intermediate Member
Username: Fusebreaker
Post Number: 270
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 8:56 am: |
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the chrome has chipped off terribly bad i think im going to sand it down with some high grit sand paper and paint it black and leave all the alimunum looking stuff silver. |
Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1420
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 9:39 am: |
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If painting is your idea, I would say to use a finer grit sandpaper, so as to not dig up the plastic faceplate. painting over the chrome seems to be a good idea.
Carl CEF-357
CVC-9 HAM-28
Flatlands of Oklahoma
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Dxgalaxy
New member
Username: Dxgalaxy
Post Number: 9
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 1:33 am: |
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There are places that do plastic rechroming for a price, they do alot of plastic rechroming on pieces for car dashes and other things. |
Unit199
Intermediate Member
Username: Unit199
Post Number: 419
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 2:46 am: |
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DXGALAXY,
I have a brand new bezel for Cobra148GTL. My e-mail address is in my profile. You will have to get a faceplate, but I will let you have bezel for nothing.
HARVE
UNIT199
CEF210
CVC18
KB0YVK
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Fusebreaker
Intermediate Member
Username: Fusebreaker
Post Number: 271
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 10:50 pm: |
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i sold the radio last week and got a new htx-10 to play with to bad they cantbe modded for 11 meters sure would be a nice cb |
Perrym1962
Junior Member
Username: Perrym1962
Post Number: 33
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 10:53 pm: |
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Another point of interest I have just found out that some may already know is that a galaxy 33, 44, or 77 bezel will fit the 148 side mic perfectly. Cool huh.. |
