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Default Watching the light be lit

On Jun 9, 11:45*pm, thumper wrote:
On 6/9/2012 3:08 PM, Tim wrote:

On Jun 8, 3:45 pm, *wrote:
... *he has to climb the stairs every two hours at night to wind the mechanism.

Wow! 150 years in operation and probably no modifications since the
day it was built. That's definitely 'old school' . I suppose "if it
works, don't fix it!"


I'd fix the climb the stairs every two hours part.


good exercise though