The console clock question?

[Dirconmach1]

What has everyone been doing when there console clock dies.

 

[Sheriff41]

You can open it up and clean the points or do the quartz conversion most vendors offer.

 

[MooseStang]

I've had a 50% rate of recovery (1 of 2). Took a while for it to "revive", had to restart many times of the course of a few weeks.
The 2nd one wasn't so lucky, I think it took too much oil and burned up.

 

[rio1856]

Member Goodnigh has a friend who build him a capacitor bank about the size of a Zippo lighter that attaches between the clock and the factory wiring to the clock. Goodnigh said that with this device, the clock runs like normal from the factory without any worries of the contact points in the clock frying when the battery runs low. His friend gave him permission for anyone to use the schematic so they can build one for themselves. I've attached a link to his posting.
See post #29 for the link to the schematic.

https://7173mustangs.com/threads/console-clock-restoration-repair.29069/page-2#post-299133