Conductive glue for my phone antenna?

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In a fit of rage after having the phone hung up in my face by a **** from Parceline's customer "services", I threw my cordless phone to the ground and the metal antenna broke in half. It's currently being held together by tape but it's flakey so I need to glue it back together. I know there's conductive superglue out there, but the question is how conductive is it? Would it be enough to allow the phone's antenna to work? I rarely go more than 5m away from the receiver.

If conductive glue won't cut it, the only other alternative I can think of is sticking a copper wire through it so the two halves make contact on the inside, and using superglue round the outside to hold it together.

Since superglue is such a pain to get out, I thought I'd ask for advice before actually doing it to save myself lots of turpentine and scraping later!:p Please help if you have any experience with any brand of conductive glue!
 
Buy a DECT cordless phone. No areial then and far far better quality, plus they aren't expensive anymore.

Analogue Cordless suck.
 
£3 bottle of glue or £30 cordless phone? :p

PS. the actual phone is the Binatone Icarus 9, not that I think it makes a difference.
 
nah, not going to bother with a solder. I know it's the best way but it's a hassle and I'd need to borrow my friend's soldering iron, whereas conductive glue would take 5 seconds, assuming the DIY store down the street has some.

Besides, the antenna is retractable, and if I soldered it, the joint would probably be too thick to slide into the section below.
 
I would have thought that you could have problems with the impedance of whatever you use in the middle of the antenna, but you could crimp the two halves together, and shrink wrap or tape afterwards to insulate
 
1337_KR3W said:
I would have thought that you could have problems with the impedance of whatever you use in the middle of the antenna, but you could crimp the two halves together, and shrink wrap or tape afterwards to insulate
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That's what I thought to do originally, but after a short session with a plier I realised that crimping the two ends would make the joint way too wide for it to retract into the section below.

Guess I'll have to compromise though, if you think glue wouldn't be conductive enough for the antenna to work :(
 
a twin pack of brand new iDect v100 digital cordless phones cost me £9.99 from a well known online auction site the other day...

Honestly, do yourself a favour and ditch the aerial :p
 
aardvark said:
it isn't conductive - the name means nothing, its not a metal, its a plastic.
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It is but I didn't know if it was mineral loaded to make it conductive. I haven't tried :(
 
ElectroBlaster said:
Artic silver cement, the stuff where you can glue heatsinks to vga chips etc... everyone says its conductive so give it a shot
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Thermal conductivity does not necessarily mean electrical conductivity.
 
Jonny69 said:
It is but I didn't know if it was mineral loaded to make it conductive. I haven't tried :(
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nah - they just call it metal so it sounds strong - the name 'chemical cement' was probably already taken.

you can buy heatsink glue that is conductive, i'm pretty sure of that - try your local ******s??
 
As already mentioned, most retractable aerials unscew and are standard parts, if you have an electronics store in your town you should be able to take it in there and get one the same
 
I don't think Arctic Silver Cement is electrically conductive. In fact I remember reading on their website that the metal filings in it are anodised to prevent static buildup.
They didn't have conductive glue at my local DIY and I cba to look further afield, so what I did is cut the insulation off a piece of copper wire. My intention is to stick it in the hollow bit inside the antenna halves and put superglue on the joint. That way it'll be glued on the inside, meaning it'll still slide in and retract fully, but it'll still conduct through the wire on the inside. Haven't done it yet cause the phone seems to be working just fine with half an antenna.:p

Oh, and for the people insisting that antennas are standard replaceable parts, I just spent five fruitless minutes trying to unscrew it, and just ended up twisting it round and round pointlessly with a strained expression on my face. So, yeah, you got me. Nice one, I hope you enjoyed your laugh!:D
 
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