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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut
Foil might work, but it looks like the base material (cardboard?) is falling apart too. Maybe get an aluminum sheet and cut it in this shape?
(Hard to tell what the dimensions are from your photo.)
If it's small enough to cut from one piece of heavy duty foil, then maybe make a new support and use that with the foil.
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It is made of cardboard and what appears to be aluminum foil. It is literally stapled to the top of the cabinet. I was thinking about either adding more staples or just cutting an entirely new piece using the old one as a template and then maybe covering it in foil glued to it with Super 77. Also, the size is just about 15" so I could get foil that size easy. But would it work as an antenna?
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Originally Posted by Electronic M
If the cardboard substrate is fine and the foil is coming in glued you can glue it back down. If it isn't aluminum you can get some copper tape to bridge the gaps...solder it in and tin over it to hide the copper color...If it is aluminum I got no clue how to fix it.
There are almost no low power analog TV stations left anywhere so that antenna probably has no practical purpose anymore unless you won the OTA lottery or run your own low power transmitter(if you do you could move the transmitter antenna closer to the TV antenna).
If you want to run the set off a DTV box you would be better served with a separate indoor or outdoor antenna...the internal antennas on most TVs sucked even compared to the average separate antennas of their time. Most internal antennas in TVs were meant for sets used in strong signal urban areas where you could get good signal on almost any piece of metal you wanted to use as an antenna....the owners manuals of most sets would advise an external antenna in most moderate and fringe reception locations.
There's little need to fix one of these...it is more original if left be and there are better solutions/workarounds than fixing it.
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I am leaning towards thinking that it is aluminum, it feels just like foil.
So why I am even bothering trying to fix this is I have a couple of Blonder Tongue modulators that I transmit a very low power signal on a couple of channels. That keeps me from having to use DTV boxes on everything and it also allows me to get to test the tuners out on different stations other than 3-4. So I was hoping to see if I could repair this and see how well it pulls in stations.