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Author: | paulzolo [ Sat May 15, 2010 12:32 pm ] |
Post subject: | Cuckoo Clock |
I got my Cuckoo Clock back yesterday. It’s needed a little settling in - but it works, makes the right noises at the right time and has provided a small bit of cheer at the end of a very difficult week. ![]() Image on Posterous: http://hairydalek.posterous.com/finally ... ck-is-back |
Author: | pcernie [ Sat May 15, 2010 12:36 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Cuckoo Clock |
Like it ![]() |
Author: | brataccas [ Sat May 15, 2010 1:56 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Cuckoo Clock |
do normal people own cuckoo clocks? The only people who I would imagine owning those would be eccentric people ![]() |
Author: | John_Vella [ Sat May 15, 2010 3:04 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Cuckoo Clock | |||||||||
Why? Cuckoo clocks rock! OK, acyually they cuckoo, but you know what I mean... ![]() |
Author: | paulzolo [ Sat May 15, 2010 4:35 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Cuckoo Clock |
I have spent a little of today tuning it - it needed to have the minute hand repositioned so that it chimes when it’s on the hour and at half past - it was a couple of minutes out. It also needs a but of a run to ensure that it keeps reasonable time. I can expect an accuracy of a couple of minutes out a day with the mechanism, but that’s fine. anything more than that means the bob on the pendulum needs moving. So I’m doing that at the moment. Bratty - I have been called eccentric in the past - the clock was my grandparents, now they are no more, I’ve got it. It’s about 60 years old, and was always a thing of fascination for me when I was younger. So it’s hanging on a wall here, and I’m loving it! |
Author: | Fogmeister [ Sat May 15, 2010 6:27 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Cuckoo Clock | ||||||||||||||||||
Ooh! Idea! A Rock Clock! Instead of a cuckoo you get Gene Simmons jumping out of the clock every hour and doing a bit of head banging with a guitar in his hands before disappearing back into the clock through a star shaped door. Have the clock in the shape of a Fender Strat or something similar ![]() ![]() |
Author: | belchingmatt [ Sat May 15, 2010 8:12 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Cuckoo Clock | |||||||||
My grandfather had one and I was expecting to call it my own one day. However when he passed away it went to my uncle instead of my father. ![]() ![]() |
Author: | paulzolo [ Sun May 16, 2010 10:13 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Cuckoo Clock | ||||||||||||||||||
I think it was heading my aunt’s way, but she got wind that I was interested, so she let me have it instead. I got it mended and working, so she’ll be happy about that. It is odd at times what can tie you to a previous generation - this clock does that more than anything big or flashy. |
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