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Hi To All,
Just wanted to give a head's up on my original clock resto saga.
It all starded for me when i puchased a so called restored full floor console from Mustang Masters last year or so. I paid top money for the whole thing, and when i eventually got it delivered to Australia, i learn't that it had not been restored properly at all. I sadly got ripped off on the deal. However, the console came with an original clock as well, that, you guessed it, did not work.( did any of them really ever did work properly? :dodgy:
In my home city, i have a good speciality company that repairs and refurbishes vintage and classic car instruments and clocks from all makes of cars. I gave them my clock to repair and recondition. They were to work on the original movement and restore it to good working condition. THAT WAS MY BIG MISTAKE, as i later learned that the old movements can't be relied on to even keep going once repared. That's what happened to me, as i paid around $160.00 for the repair to be carried out, and the owner said he had bench tested the clock for two days straight without any problems. I installed the clock around two months later, only to find it stopped after running for about two minutes. I talked to the boss about my problem, and he said he could look at the clock again, but could not gaurantee it would keep on working in a reliable fashon into the future. (Why wasn't i told about this in the first place?
) He wasn't going to give me a refund on the whole thing, so i realised i had done my money. The old original movements are not worth a pinch of bird crap.
Long story short, i have recently shipped my clock to a company in America called The Clock Works who specialise in restoring classic car clocks, and will be getting them to put in a quartz updated mechanism for me. The conversion will be costing me around $170.00 plus another $80.00 for shipping to and from America. This time i think i'm on the right track, as the quartz movements are much more reliable and last longer. I should have gone to quartz in the first place. Oh well, i guess we all live and learn don't we.
I'm also taking out the original blue light pods, as they make decent illumination weak and useless as well. I will be just installing Led bulbs on their own without any pods that cut down the light intensity. I also have bought a new clock face lens which brightens up the appearence of the clock as well. That's about it for now, as i wait to get my clock back to Australia and try it out. Wish me luck, and i'll let you know how i get on later.
Referennce: http://www.clockwks.com/Quartzx.html
Many thanks,
Greg.
Just wanted to give a head's up on my original clock resto saga.
It all starded for me when i puchased a so called restored full floor console from Mustang Masters last year or so. I paid top money for the whole thing, and when i eventually got it delivered to Australia, i learn't that it had not been restored properly at all. I sadly got ripped off on the deal. However, the console came with an original clock as well, that, you guessed it, did not work.( did any of them really ever did work properly? :dodgy:
In my home city, i have a good speciality company that repairs and refurbishes vintage and classic car instruments and clocks from all makes of cars. I gave them my clock to repair and recondition. They were to work on the original movement and restore it to good working condition. THAT WAS MY BIG MISTAKE, as i later learned that the old movements can't be relied on to even keep going once repared. That's what happened to me, as i paid around $160.00 for the repair to be carried out, and the owner said he had bench tested the clock for two days straight without any problems. I installed the clock around two months later, only to find it stopped after running for about two minutes. I talked to the boss about my problem, and he said he could look at the clock again, but could not gaurantee it would keep on working in a reliable fashon into the future. (Why wasn't i told about this in the first place?
) He wasn't going to give me a refund on the whole thing, so i realised i had done my money. The old original movements are not worth a pinch of bird crap.Long story short, i have recently shipped my clock to a company in America called The Clock Works who specialise in restoring classic car clocks, and will be getting them to put in a quartz updated mechanism for me. The conversion will be costing me around $170.00 plus another $80.00 for shipping to and from America. This time i think i'm on the right track, as the quartz movements are much more reliable and last longer. I should have gone to quartz in the first place. Oh well, i guess we all live and learn don't we.
I'm also taking out the original blue light pods, as they make decent illumination weak and useless as well. I will be just installing Led bulbs on their own without any pods that cut down the light intensity. I also have bought a new clock face lens which brightens up the appearence of the clock as well. That's about it for now, as i wait to get my clock back to Australia and try it out. Wish me luck, and i'll let you know how i get on later.
Referennce: http://www.clockwks.com/Quartzx.html
Many thanks,
Greg.
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