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Some are repairable, some aren't unless you have plenty of spares. There's two types of clocks, one is a electrically-wound mechanical drive, the other has a transistor oscillator driving the balance wheel. The transistorized ones seem to be in the later models. The one that came with my SB had an open oscillator coil, I tried to unwrap a few turns, these coils usually go open in the outer few turns. The wire is hair fine, about 48 guage, so if you're not familiar with working with such small stuff, pass on it and get a mechanical clock, which is what I did. What happens to the mechanical clocks is that there's a fusable link in there, it's a drop of low melting-point alloy between two small strips of brass. This seems to crystallize over the years and the brass springs apart, causing an open circuit. Relatively easy to use a small soldering iron to make a joint there. Some folks use a fuse in the circuit after that. There's a small solenoid inside the clock that kicks a wheel around periodically as points close and thus keeps a sping wound up. These points can usually stand some attention with a point file, don't file away too much on them, just enough to get the surface bright again. I use some light-weight dental turbine oil, in the absence of regular clock oil. Stasndard clock-servicing procedures are available in horology books at the local library. Since you can't get the works apart without destorying it, a little solvent(ether or alcohol) followed by a little oil is about all you can do for pivot servicing. I was lucky enough to get a repairable mechanical clock from the local VW junk yard, 10 bucks, my choice from a 4 foot cube box that was full. Has been running over ten years now, just serviced it a couple of months back, was running a bit slow. On Sat, 02 Jan 1999 09:04:04 -0800, you wrote: >Hi, everybody. The clock on my squareback is broken (of course,) and I >am wondering if it can be repaired. I just finished fixing my odometer, >now I'm eyeing my broken clock. Does anyone have any experience with >this? Can it even be repaired? I haven't opened it yet but I'm hoping >that there are typical problems with all of the VW clocks that someone >might have knowledge of. Thanks. Ernest > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org