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Philco 551 clock question
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Nothing wrong with that.

May I suggest one of the "silent" quartz movements with a sweep second hand? I find that constant "TICK - TICK - TICK" plus the accompanying jerky movement of the second hand on many battery-operated quartz movements to be quite annoying.

I installed one in a 1950s GE kitchen clock, the motor of which burned up. I carefully drilled the mounting holes of each of the original hands so they would fit the China-made movement, and put it all back together. Now, you can't tell anything was ever done to it; only the lack of an electric cord.

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN


Messages In This Thread
Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 03-30-2015, 02:09 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by codefox1 - 03-30-2015, 02:28 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 03-30-2015, 02:37 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by klondike98 - 03-30-2015, 02:39 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Eliot Ness - 03-30-2015, 02:45 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 03-30-2015, 03:14 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by jerryhawthorne - 03-30-2015, 03:11 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by klondike98 - 03-30-2015, 03:39 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by jerryhawthorne - 03-30-2015, 03:56 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 03-30-2015, 03:57 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Eliot Ness - 03-30-2015, 04:14 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by jerryhawthorne - 03-30-2015, 04:33 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 03-30-2015, 05:01 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by jerryhawthorne - 03-30-2015, 05:55 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Ron Ramirez - 03-30-2015, 06:03 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 03-30-2015, 09:40 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Ron Ramirez - 03-31-2015, 06:36 AM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 03-31-2015, 08:07 AM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by klondike98 - 03-31-2015, 08:10 AM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Ron Ramirez - 03-31-2015, 08:13 AM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Eliot Ness - 03-31-2015, 01:06 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 04-08-2015, 03:30 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Eliot Ness - 04-08-2015, 03:44 PM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 04-09-2015, 06:33 AM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Ron Ramirez - 04-09-2015, 07:08 AM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by grege - 04-09-2015, 08:18 AM
RE: Philco 551 clock question - by Ron Ramirez - 04-09-2015, 09:10 AM



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