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  1. Kiggsia

    $ The Hyper Pendulums

    As can be seen in this low res videoclip,my clock has a very short pendulum. But my Daughter has a Bulova Cranbrook wall clock with a pendulum several times longer, but still that same excessive speed
  2. Kiggsia

    $ The Hyper Pendulums

    That would be worth a try for sure. Im thinking that the permanent magnet in the crutch & the electromagnet in the pendulum mechanism housing repel each other so im hoping that a magnet below the bob would attract the bob as it swings by & resist and slow down the pendulum. Yet it seems im the...
  3. Kiggsia

    $ The Hyper Pendulums

    Tonight I took the magnet out of my pendulum crutch & began grinding it down, that metal almost cant be ground at all. But about a third of the magnet broke off, so I tried using just the 2/3 piece and it didnt slow the pendulum speed down noticably, it only lessened its arc of travel. Then i...
  4. Kiggsia

    $ The Hyper Pendulums

    Thanks for your reply. To put the quartz outfit in this mini schoolhouse clock I posted a video of, I had to cobble up a linkage, as seen in these two attachments of the pendulum mechanism. Im wondering if all the ferrous metal I added causes a greater magnetic attraction of the permanent magnet...
  5. Kiggsia

    $ The Hyper Pendulums

    I once was able to correct a lighting issue with a rheostat. I had hooked up green LED underdash floor lights in my car, & after a while they began to flicker. I had thought it was a design flaw, bugs in the LED type lights. But since car alternators put out 14 volts, it may be that these lamps...
  6. Kiggsia

    $ The Hyper Pendulums

    I think it's very common for the quartz movements with the fake pendulums to swing the small pendulums like in my mini schoolhouse clock at about twice the normal speed. I sure wish they were better engineered to not do that, it gets on my nerves. I have a fantasy that if a resistor or a...
  7. Kiggsia

    value The Hairspring Things

    Thanks for your reply, one reply to me suggested guitar string & for $2 i was able to buy the 2 sizes the poster here recommended.
  8. Kiggsia

    value The Hairspring Things

    I am looking to replace the broken hairsprings for the strike levers on my Gilbert 1910 mechanism. Might anyone know where dor sure I can find them online? I know that I may have to buy the entire levers to get the hairsprings.....
  9. Kiggsia

    All Hour Strikes Perfect Except At 12

    Yes, I've done that a few times now, I have gotten clocks that went silent striking again, like the Linden clock case in this videoclip with a tikround brand quartz bim bam movement from Amazon. It is given to my Great Grandson who designed the replacement dial for it. It does westminster & ave...
  10. Kiggsia

    All Hour Strikes Perfect Except At 12

    I've tried that but neither mechanism would work. Like a moron, I failed to take detailed pictures of how the parts were positioned relative to each other before disassembly.
  11. Kiggsia

    All Hour Strikes Perfect Except At 12

    My 2nd used Linden 7012 mantel clock came but it doesn't strike either. The seller gave me a refund and let me keep the clock. Both the clock and the strike motors work. The clock keeps time but the strike mechanism is not aligned properly. It will steime for a short or long time depending on...
  12. Kiggsia

    Linden Quartz Chime Movement #7012 Clock

    w The actual recorded sound chimes can sound so realistic, whether it be bim bam or westminster. But in the clock i showed in this thread, i only wanted 1 single ding, rather than bim bam, so i would know what hour it was at night in bed without my glasses. So i removed one of the strike rods &...
  13. Kiggsia

    Linden Quartz Chime Movement #7012 Clock

    Willie X, i was forced to give up trying to replace or repair my Linden 7012 bim bam mechanism. I have now ordered two used mechanisms and the first one went bad after a short time, the second one never did work, and i havent been able to fix either. I contacted the seller of the 2nd faulty...
  14. Kiggsia

    I need this strike mechanism motor

    It is for the mechanism module of a Linden 7012 Bim Bam strike mantel clock
  15. Kiggsia

    All Hour Strikes Perfect Except At 12

    Thanks for reply, my clock just took a turn for the worser, I buggered something up, now won't stop striking & clock itself wont tell time. I bought a previous Linden 7012 at a flea market a year ago and it was the same thing with the strike mechanism, either struck erratic or for very long...
  16. Kiggsia

    All Hour Strikes Perfect Except At 12

    I have now seen a few threads by others with simiiar problems. But the answers to their questions were all in clockspeak which i have almost no understanding of at this point. So i just removed and refit the mechanism clock & strike modules after repositioning the hour gear, hoping to hit on the...
  17. Kiggsia

    All Hour Strikes Perfect Except At 12

    I have installed a Linden 7012 mantel clock mechanism in a small cabinet clock housing. I removed one of the strike rods to have a single tone rather than the double bim bam tones. I am thinking that it would be safer to bend the steel strike rod than the strike hammer lever to adjust the gap...
  18. Kiggsia

    Other Parts for Linden 7012 Movement

    I have transplanted a movement for a Linden #7012 mantel clock into this craft store made clock case from a flea market. I removed one if the strike rods to just have a single ding, thats why only one is heard in this attached video short. But the strike function became intermittent. I...
  19. Kiggsia

    Adjusting chime timing; no minute hand bushing

    What is a minute cannon and how do I move it? I am not very familiar with the clock mechanism nomenclature.
  20. Kiggsia

    Function Can Minute Hand Be Adjusted To Synch With Chime?

    My Seth Thomas #89 movement which of course uses the square shaft for the minute hand, is about 2 minutes off top dead center to synch for chime operation. Can this be adjusted?
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