Re: [T3] red needle clock

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

	So, Mark came by today and let me use his clock oil.  It worked!
Thanks again, Mark.

	I then moved on to soldering a 12v solenoid's blown fuse.  Thanks
for the tip, Jim, of just remelting the existing solder.  When I'd made a
similar repair to another clock a number of years back, I actually
soldered a wire between the fuse contacts.

	I put the 12v solenoid on the (originally) 6v clock, but the pawl
would just slip back along its gear instead of pull on it to drive the
clock.  It turns out that I was winding the pawl up in the wrong direction
-- the pawl must trail when winding, and lead when pushing/driving the
clock.

	I popped the clock in the car, and all was good...

	...until a little while later, when I looked in the car and saw
that the clock's backlight had come on!

	To make a long story short, the original clock had a tab on the
body for a spade connector, and was connected to a ground wire.  The
earlier clock didn't have this, so I had just taped over the ground wire
and let it sit there behind the dash.  Well, it must not have been
grounding correctly by touching the dash.  I made a little jumber cable
with a male spade on one end and a flat loop on the other end; put the
loop end under one of the three nuts-on-shafts that hold the clock's back
cover on, and attached the other end to the ground wire that the original
clock used.  All fixed.

	Thanks for all the help from listees -- I had fun with this little
project, and will enjoy looking at the red (why don't we all them orange?)
needles.

-Greg

p.s.:  Mark, the little +/- speed adjuster shaft actually rubs against a
little plate with a curved edge; it rotates the plate which increases or
decreases tension on what I presume is the pendulum spring.  The plate was
a bit stuck on my clock.  After I moved the plate a bit by hand, the +/-
shaft worked again.  I was afraid that oiling that shaft could have been a
bad move, but it was no problem in the end.

p.p.s.: the smaller wheel polishing buff bobs are supposed to arrive
tomorrow, bwahaha...

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