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> Can you tell me just what the PROBLEM is? It seems to me that > the escapement just becomes unreliable, but I haven't been able to > see what is wrong, and without knowing what is wrong, it's hard to > correct it. > The escapement of the later clocks seems much the same as the earlier ones. There are two faults I've seen; in one the very fine coils had been damaged by the swinging pendulum, and in the other one of the soldered ends of the very fine wires was detached. These are micro-surgery items to mend in situ. Maybe some solvent might work to clean the insulation to allow re-soldering, but I couldn't manage it. If the mechanism is just gummed up, WD40 may cure it - that worked in my Fastback. Jim reckons on the proper watch lubricant after, but mine has run now for about 8 years without much problem. I think the WD40 just cleans and thins stiff lubricant. If I disconnect the battery, sometimes it may be necessary to re-make the contact a couple of times to give it a jolt to get it running. Once I had to partly remove it and rotate the casing to and fro about the axis of the hands to get the pendulum moving, so now I leave it a bit loose in case it needs it again. It's a 'normally-on' transistor-operated switch that attracts the pendulum across, but this is then turned off by the back-EMF generated in the other coil as the pendulum moves across. You can take off the back-plate and the pendulum mechanism, and direct drive the gear for the minute hand with a quartz movement. It needs some surgery and ingenuity, but it does work. Sadly, the smallest cheap quartz movement I've found is still too big to fit under the cover. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org