On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 06:37:29 +0100, harryagain wrote:

"Mike Barnes" wrote in message
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harryagain wrote:
In a different life I used to repair electric cookers. The number of
times I was called to "Oven not working".
Just needed a button on the timer pressed.

Well, let's face it, those cooker timers are largely incomprehensible,
and so rarely used that few people ever gets grips with them.

These were the old mechanical clocks.
I don't know anyone ever used them.
Dunno why they are still fitted.
Must be some sort of tradition.

My father used to be a rep for Tricity/Bendix. We had loads of bits lying
around that came out of cookers (or were 'spares').

For years I had one of the mechanical clocks in a woodne box with a 13A
socket and flying lead with a 13A plug on the end. For a while I had it
connected to an old battery/mains radio as an alarm clock.

I also had another radio built from cooker 'spares':

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/tricity_melodie.html



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