Instrument clock Service

[Corvair88]

I did a clock for a friends 59 Caddy, but I recon it's probably same mechanism in most GM products I wrote a little about the service here: https://mitka.co.uk/2018/08/10/service- ... ker-clock/

[wbabst]

Very nice work! I would very afraid of losing or breaking a part in the disassembly. So cool that you have the talent to do such delicate work.

[toytron]

Mitka thank you for sharing your webpage. You did some beautiful work.

Ed Stevenson

[bbodie52]

Your skill and understanding of clock mechanisms is truly amazing. To most of us the clock mechanism is indecipherable and your ability to work with these tiny mechanisms and restore them is incomprehensible to most of us. Your time is valuable, and it is hard to believe that your rare skills could be applied to cheap automotive electromechanical clock mechanisms and then produce an affordable result (depending on the amount of time involved to restore each clock).

I would think that a replacement quartz electronic clock mechanism would make more sense in classic automobiles, if the external face and hands could be retained and the internal replacement electronic clock could be hidden from view. I believe that the original electromechanical clocks will unfortunately fail repeatedly due to burned contacts that suffer some damage each time the contacts close to rewind the mechanical clock. Vehicle vibration and environmental shock to the mechanism probably doesn't help with mechanical clock longevity either.

What do you think of the type of replacement clock mechanism shown below. These have been offered on eBay for years...


S-30151 Quartz Conversion Clock Repair Kit


https://www.ebay.com/itm/S-30151-Quartz ... SwIrBbbKsw

[toytron]

That is an ISI clock conversion kit. They are in Illinois and specialise in auto instrument restoration.

Ed Stevenson