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On 27 Oct 98, at 16:44, Stan Schaefer wrote: > Clockmakers use a special tool to remove hands, kind of like a midget gear > puller. I bought one of those, and promptly broke it trying to pull the hands off a VDO clock. 8-( > At one junkyard I was in, the guy had a 4' cube box full of > clocks, $10 each, as is. I just got an older, non-transistorized movement > and resoldered the fuse connection where the low-melting alloy had > crystallized and broken. A little clock oil and it's been running for 10 > years. At that price, it's not worth messing with a quartz movement . The strictly mechanical movements seem to run forever with a little lubrication and TLC, but I find that they keep rather poor time. Since the later movements seemed to work rather well when they were new, I have just wished that I could restore them. It just seems like a worthy goal. Jim - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/