Here I am on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I was about to order the quartz update for my clock, which hasn't moved a second in the 4 years I've had it, when I decided to get nosey and figure out "how it works" and what was wrong with it.

 

    Upon taking it apart, I learned that the clock is not on battery 100% of the time. It actually runs about a minute on a clock spring and just before it runs out of gas, a set of contacts (luke in a points distributor) touch and load up a coil, kick the winding arm back and it runs for another minute. Neat!! - old technology...

 

    My clock was very clean and fullly in tact but would not run. I found that by adding a little pressure to what seems like a drive spring, the clock started running on it's own again. Whether the innards still just need a cleaning (although it seems spotless) or the spring has sprung, I wasn't sure so I started experimenting.

 

    I shortened the drive spring just a couple of coils and it started running!! I hooked it up to a 12V source while it was running and once the contacts touched, SNAP! It rewound and kept running. Keeping perfect time to the minute for the last few hours.

 

    Who says you can't be productive on a rainy Sunday!! Now it's TIME for a cold brew!!

 

Cheers y'all!!!

 

No motor yet Dave. Most likely early September. But like they say, "good things come to those who wait"!! Can't wat to get that 406 hummin' in the Baby!!

 

 

-RAy