Interesting. Great restoration. The Telechron 8B01 (1934) digital clock
used a similar synchronous motor and cams etc arrangement to drive its
number drums-different mechanical arrangement of course but much the same
mechanical principles in use.
DaveB, NZ
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From: "Dekatron42" <martin.forsb...@gmail.com>
To: <neonixie-l@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 3:38 PM
Subject: [neonixie-l] Finished restoring a TIMEON 2000, motor driven Nixie
clock from 1968!
Hi,
I found this clock on eBay some time ago, it was non-functioning when sold
and unfortunately it arrived in an even worse state since it had been
crushed while being shipped. It turned out to be some easy and some hard
things to repair to get it up and running, one Nixie was broken and a few
resistors where badly burned and one resistor had cracked! After replacing
those it took some time re-adjusting the motor driven rotary switches,
they
look more like prototypes than anything that was sold commercially,
especially the disks that spin as those are just rounded pieces of epoxy
circuit boards with some soldered contacts, no nice finish at all.
I've put a short film on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GsczXtQKLE where
it advances from 12:59 to 1:00, and some photos and documents are included
here in this message. I just wish this clock had been a 24 hour model and
not a 12 hour model!
Just as it says in the article it a lot of noise and you can't use it in
your bedroom without ear plugs!
/Martin
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