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Robert wrote:
On 06/11/2019 15:43, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Martin Brown wrote:
The bump might well have taken something out of alignment or chipped a
tooth. Whenever I have had trouble with synchronous motor clocks it has
been running slow or stopping because of worn teeth on the gears.

Might it be easier to simply replace the guts with a battery quartz
movement? Unless rare and expensive - if such a synchronous clock exists.

I quite like the synchronous electric clocks, usually in Bakelite and
really not expensive for a "collectible" but useful item.
They can be a pain to get restarted though, not sure if this is down to
sticky oil or grease on the gears ?
I usually earth them when rewiring.

All I remember of them was they usually got noisy with age. And not a
pleasant noise.

Do have a couple of mains clocks here - but they're LED. One in the
bedroom - large digits so easy to read even at my ripe old age.

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*I can see your point, but I still think you're full of ****.

Dave Plowman London SW
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