General Chat

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Dizzi, your FIL must have been a real wind-up merchant :-D :-D

MY FATHER IN LAW COLLECTED CLOCKS OLD HUGE WIND
UP ONES,HE DIED 16 YEARS AGO,AT FIRST OH PUT ONE HE LIKED IN THE BEDROOM,LASTED 2 HRS EVERY QUARTER OF AN HOUR BOING BOING BOING THEN THE FUDDY HOUR WHO IN THERE RIGHT MIND WANT 12 CHIMES ,PUT IT DOWN STAIRS
THE FUDDY TICK ECHOED ROUND THE HOUSE AND WORSE OF ALL IT WAS AN EIIGHT DAY CHIMER ONE WIND LASTED 8 FLIPPIN DAYS AND LONG NIGHTS ,IT WAS ONLY WOUND UP ONCE,LAST SEEN DISSAPERING INTO LOFT WITH ALL THR REST

Oh yes, another thing!

The previous owner did not like the sounds of the chimes so remove the bell.

The rest of the mechanism is still intact and every fifteen minutes it sounds as though somebody is trying to open the front door :-0

Yes, but the pendulum keeps falling off :-P :-D :-D

Have you tried turning it upside-down?
B

We bought a pendulum clock in a garage sale last Saturday.

Not a genuine wind-up type, but battery operated. It is still fairly old as the battery size is 'D'

Now clocks are expected to go 'tick-tock'.

Our battery operated one in the kitchen conforms to that rule, as does the one in my study.

But the bl**dy thing we bought, whilst lovely to look at, and keeping good time, refuses to conform with the convention.

It goes 'tock-tick' :-S

It's at odds with the kitchen clock, and it's doing my flaming head in :-| :-|