PS: You made me laugh out loud several times during your destruction of that second timer. "There's nothing I can do with this," you said. How funny and very entertaining, much more comical than the inspection of your first timer. My lady would have a fit if she saw the way you tore into that second timer, as she does whenever she sees me rip apart something small and mechanical. I always tell her, "It's just a machine. I'll buy a new one if I screw this one up!" That doesn't stop her hair from bursting into flames. You should have seen her when I brought home a 52"Vizio flat screen TV I picked up from a neighbor who had thrown it away because it started producing red and green vertical lines. It looked new. Perfect condition. But the neighbor had already taken out the guts (d-con board, main module, etc.) and there was no way I was going to replace a thing. I started tapping it on the top to get my lady's attention. She came in and I told her it was a minor problem and that all I had to do was give it a few wacks. "Stop!" she said. And then freaked out when I picked up a hammer. "You're not going to..." Plastic went flying from the back corner of the Vizio. "How's it now?" I asked, unable to keep from laughing. She didn't speak to me for the rest of the day when I told her the whole story. "You're sick," she said. "You're absolutely sick." I still get a chuckle even today.
This is the most entertaining video I've seen in a long time, probably because I have a vintage Datcon golf cart hour meter that operates much like yours but is in a round case, not a rectangular case as yours is. I can't see the "clock spring thing,," as you called it. It's hidden behind the other components, separated by plastic.But even though this meter doesn't work the way it should, because when the contacts close, they don't spring apart again as yours seem to do. And because of that, the clock stops ticking. It only starts ticking again when I manually separate the contacts by hand. Could the electro magnet be defective? I'd like to get this thing working right, seeing as how the EZ-Go golf cart it came out of is a classic, made now into a "roadster," because I removed all the excess steel from the frame and it now looks more like a stripped-down dune buggy than a golf cart.
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Pretty interesting that it's essentially a mechanical clock internally. Most of the newer 'mechanical hour meters' still has a quartz internal.
PS: You made me laugh out loud several times during your destruction of that second timer. "There's nothing I can do with this," you said. How funny and very entertaining, much more comical than the inspection of your first timer.
My lady would have a fit if she saw the way you tore into that second timer, as she does whenever she sees me rip apart something small and mechanical. I always tell her, "It's just a machine. I'll buy a new one if I screw this one up!" That doesn't stop her hair from bursting into flames. You should have seen her when I brought home a 52"Vizio flat screen TV I picked up from a neighbor who had thrown it away because it started producing red and green vertical lines. It looked new. Perfect condition. But the neighbor had already taken out the guts (d-con board, main module, etc.) and there was no way I was going to replace a thing. I started tapping it on the top to get my lady's attention. She came in and I told her it was a minor problem and that all I had to do was give it a few wacks.
"Stop!" she said. And then freaked out when I picked up a hammer. "You're not going to..."
Plastic went flying from the back corner of the Vizio. "How's it now?" I asked, unable to keep from laughing.
She didn't speak to me for the rest of the day when I told her the whole story.
"You're sick," she said. "You're absolutely sick."
I still get a chuckle even today.
Thanks for the laugh
Deoxit to clean up the back. A punch to tighten the rivet.
This is the most entertaining video I've seen in a long time, probably because I have a vintage Datcon golf cart hour meter that operates much like yours but is in a round case, not a rectangular case as yours is. I can't see the "clock spring thing,," as you called it. It's hidden behind the other components, separated by plastic.But even though this meter doesn't work the way it should, because when the contacts close, they don't spring apart again as yours seem to do. And because of that, the clock stops ticking. It only starts ticking again when I manually separate the contacts by hand. Could the electro magnet be defective? I'd like to get this thing working right, seeing as how the EZ-Go golf cart it came out of is a classic, made now into a "roadster," because I removed all the excess steel from the frame and it now looks more like a stripped-down dune buggy than a golf cart.