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- From: dye@i88.isc.com (Ken R. Dye )
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Clocks anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.224304.14958@i88.isc.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 22:43:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: i88.1992Aug12.224304.14958
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- In article <1992Aug12.170242.17824@mcnc.org> brooks@mcnc.org (Ted Brooks) writes:
- >In article <h645788@pro-haven.cts.com> shadow@pro-haven.cts.com (Blaine Hufnagle) writes:
- >>I noticed today that the factory clock in my truck started working again, for
- >>the thirty millionth time... It seems that every Chevy truck factory clock
- >>will run for about the first 25K miles, then it'll quit for several months,
- >>and then work for a few weeks, then quit, etc etc ad infinitum.
- >>
- >
- >Take the clock to a competent watch/clock repair shop and have it cleaned and
- >oiled. (Don't do it yourself - the oils they use are far better refined than
- >what you can buy at the hardware store, so to avoid future gumming up.)
-
- I was under the impession that it was not a "gumming" problem,
- but an electrical contact. The old mechanical (pre-quartz) units use
- an electrically wound spring to run the clock...when the spring unwinds
- enough, an electrical contact is made which winds the spring back up.
- Over the years the contact corrodes, and becomes unreliable (tap on
- the clock or hit a bump to get it going again). Just clean up the
- contacts and it should be as good as new (or if it is a borg unit,
- replace it with the quartz guts from Whitney).
-
-
- --Ken
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