Slow Clock???

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My clock loses a few hours each day. It keeps time when I am running the car. The first thing I tried was to spin the hands a full twelve hours. That worked for a while, but now it is slowing again.

It was rebuilt by Hollywood years ago and I have no complaints. Suggestions more than welcome.

Thanks, Steve
 
Mine used to lose 5 min a week. It stopped working. I took it out to fix it, it started working again during removal (mechanical version). It now loses 10 min a week. We're all getting old.
 
I think North Hollywood converted mine to quartz under a previous owner and keeps pretty good time. Not sure if it's fast or slow.
 
i love the time my clock shows in my dash, it is always 10:10 h, the perfect and most beautiful position of the handles in a watch 8-), arde said once i am sort of "form follows form" guy and he is right,...he is always right, even now that he has begun his italian diversion...

anyway i have a replacement clock connected to a spare battery, and i am following its performance regularly. i have not found the working law yet, but i will prepare a scientific article hopefully to be published in a well known scientific magazine:wink:
 
Thanks guys. These are the kinds of expert answers I expect on this site. Now I know exactly what to do based on your collective wisdom. Get in the car, set the clock to the correct time. Drive. Repeat until I decide to send it out for a quartz transplant.

I guess that's why our cars are timeless. Steve
 
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.. arde said once i am sort of "form follows form" guy and he is right,...he is always right, even now that he has begun his italian diversion...
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And I was thinking of you DQ and your philosophy when the Fulvia arrived, borrowing a page from your book the Fulvia has this beautiful antenna on the trunk lid but no radio...

It has a clock, and the hands move, but no evidence that it keeps time nor a way of setting the local time. I pretend that nobody is waiting for me anywhere at any specific time. Increasingly I will need to pretend less and less.
 

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Arde said:
And I was thinking of you DQ and your philosophy when the Fulvia arrived, borrowing a page from your book the Fulvia has this beautiful antenna on the trunk lid but no radio...

It has a clock, and the hands move, but no evidence that it keeps time nor a way of setting the local time. I pretend that nobody is waiting for me anywhere at any specific time. Increasingly I will need to pretend less and less.
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that is soooo sexy !
it is expressing speed even when it is steady, well done
 
To Fulviz with love. Timeless like our coupes and out of time design.

We are all pretending less and less. And like it more and more
 
RS, at least yours starts again. If you could train it to lose exactly 12 hours wouldn't it show the correct time. I have to set mine to the correct time each time I drive. It probably needs to go to Hollywood.
 
There is an adjustment screw accessible from the back that can be used to set the clock to the right speed. This requires removal of the clock. The unfortunate thing is it usually slows down again after a few years.

I have two clocks and when one quits, I have the other one set and ready to install. It is a lot of work to keep it original but I like the reassuring click each time it rewinds.
 
Ahhh, but the "clicker" is the mechanically driven clock, and many of us have fully electrically driven clocks. I read a post some time ago, somewhere, that there is a capacity which may fail, but can be tested and replaced, or was it a transistor... see that's the problem, we're mostly mechanical guys, and the clock is electrical.

"If it can't be fixed with a hammer... it's probably electrical" is so true in this instance.
 
Jut pretend it is set to Greenwich Mean Time, Frankfurt or something exotic from someplace you aspire to visit. I look at the sun to determine if I'm going to have to be home anytime soon.
 
Lots of great solutions/suggestions. I am going to incorporate a bit of each. That will solve the problem. Thanks. Steve
 
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