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"Shaun Van Poecke" wrote in
: you think the clock really is a special clock that works on the lunar cycle? No, just that its timing crystal is a different frequency, which makes it run on the lunar cycle, not the solar cycle. http://www.klockit.com/products/prod...sku=BBBHH&tab= $10 (movement only) or $11.35 with nice dial and hands. I buy movements for quartz and grandfather clocks from Klockit.com all the time.....BUT, they DO sell your information to the rest of the planet so be prepared to be mailspammed to death by the craziest places, even if you tell 'em not to. You're forewarned. I let them do business with my home address, which is the junk mail box, and have a PO Box for regular business. When I get bored with the clocks I restore....or more often run out of wall space (c;....I give them away to friends and customers as gifts. I have fun repairing old electrically-would balance wheel wall clocks noone wants to fool with. I can hear 8 ticking away as I type this...(c; There's also a tiny hum coming out of an old Sunbeam tuning fork clock...no, wait...that's coming from the Accutron tuning fork wrist watch on my wrist, today...thrift shop - $2.99 as-is...(c; Get a nice movement with the nice dial. Put it in an old clock case. My tide clock was one of those porthole brass mirrors someone gave me. The clock face was a little smaller than the porthole, so I had a glass shop put the hole in the middle of the mirror for the clock shaft and left mirror showing all the way around the clock dial. Looks very nautical with its porthole dogs that open so I can replace the AA battery and reset it when the tides drift away from the clock setting. It's really noisy here every hour and moderately noisy every 15 minutes with all the bells/gongs/electronic chimes going off simultaneously.... (c; I'm currently regulating a "German Time Bomb", as the clockmakers call it: http://goto.glocalnet.net/matebia/Ma.../german-tb.htm The local clockmaker said he wouldn't dare wind it!....adding some thrill to owning it...(c; Larry -- Vista has been out a week. Is Service Pack 1 ready yet? |
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