Clock Repair Report

[Bill90Loyale]

For those of you who drive vintage EA 82's with dead clocks on the dash, I just want to remind you that if you click on the "Marketplace" forum, you'll find (in the Stickys up top) an offer from Northwet (Pat) to repair them (basically for free). Here's what happened to me: The deal on these clocks is that the resistors burn out or soldered joints finally let go. I struck out finding the right resistor locally. Gave up, took Pat up on his generous offer and mailed my clock across the country to Pat (about $1.75 shipping - the clock is light). Pat soldered in a new custom parallel resistor arrangement, patched up other weak soldered joints, shipped it back to me (along with a good deal he gave me on a mirror). He even returned my original envelope! When the clock arrived, it didn't work. Why? Because, in shipping, the mirror banged against the (bubble-wrapped) clock and popped one of the newly soldered joints. I paid a local sewing machine/tv repairman $10 to re-solder and the clock works like new. So what did Pat do when he heard this story?? He offered to send me ten bucks to cover the additional work!!!! They don't make honesty and service like this anymore. Get it while you can.

Bill

[MilesFox]

pat is a good guy, i met him as he made his cross country cartel. very noble of him to cover the damages. now what about clocks that work but dont keep time after a week, such as being an hour off?

[NorthWet]

...now what about clocks that work but dont keep time after a week, such as being an hour off?

Miles, that is also probably a solder-joint or dirty-contact issue. The clock itself is pretty self-contained and sturdy, so any problems are usually in the solder joints.

 

Bill, thanks for the compliments, but I am still embarrassed that it didn't work when you got it. My self-expectation is that if I fix it it stays fixed.