WOW! That was easy! But when I wanted to order a new case (both front and back) when the 436 first hit the market I first was told they didn’t have the case available for sale (as they were holding all available parts for their repair dept? Possibly due to a short supply chain? I don’t know and neither did the repair dept but that was their best guess.)
So I wrote Uniden Corporate in Texas and told them I wanted to have a new case available for when I sold the radio… a new case would allow me to state a pristine appearance in my “For Sale” add… or if I kept the radio, and the display screen got too scratched up, swap it out. Corporate researched the issue of how to get a new outer case, complete with a new clear plastic window and reported back to me that the window did not come as part of the front cover. Instead, it was part of an assembly that included the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)! I thought that strange as previous models all looked like what you have shown in your video, the window attached to the front cover. But they sent me the complete case AND the LCD assembly without charge, as their way of apologizing for what I had to go through to get what I had asked for… and that was primarily a new plastic clear display window (which I had incorrectly assumed was part of the front cover, exactly what you have shown.
Going forward, it appears Uniden has broken out the display window from the LCD assembly, allowing a simple swap out of a part most susceptible to wear and tear from simple usage. I suspect that Uniden finally realized it was cheaper swap out a front case cover than to also need to swap out the LCD assembly. Why it was originally a part of the LCD assembly is anybody’s guess but when I opened up my 436, it became apparent the window was NOT part of the case cover, instead, part of the LCD assembly.
These two differing methods of replacing a scratched display window may present a problem for those who have one of the original 436’s like I have, and order up a new front case cover. But we may never hear about the two differing manufacturing processes from Uniden, who, don’t seem to have a parts dept, instead, instructing all to use the repair facility instead. Now, this may have changed since they first came out with the 436, but I am not aware of any parts dept.
This raises the question, where did you obtain the new front cover for your video?
