{"id":11,"date":"2013-02-11T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiswickclockrepair.wordpress.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:23:13","slug":"quartz-conversion-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Quartz conversion 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13 alignnone\" alt=\"IMAG0308\" src=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0308.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brought in recently, a large (12in glass) school or factory slave electric clock. These clocks work on pulses sent every minute or half minute from a master clock. This one is French, with the maker&#8217;s name, Brillie, painted on the dial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14 alignnone\" alt=\"IMAG0314\" src=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0314.jpg\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mechanism as fitted cannot be directly converted to battery or mains operation, and although there are add-on units which retain the pulse mechanism it is easier to install a quartz movement. I used a UTS high torque movement to cope with the large hands which the client wanted to retain. The hour hand was broached out to be a nice push fit on the Euroshaft spindle, but the minute hand needed a hand collet soldered to the underside.<\/p>\n<p>The mounting of the glass in the bezel also needed attention as the original plaster sealing had dried to a powder &#8211; transparent silicone did the job. The dial and mechanism is retained by screws in a substantial spun aluminium case, and the final task was to cut a round access hole in the rear so that hands can be adjusted and batteries replaced without dismantling the clock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0314.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought in recently, a large (12in glass) school or factory slave electric clock. These clocks work on pulses sent every minute or half minute from a master clock. This one is French, with the maker&#8217;s name, Brillie, painted on the dial. The mechanism as fitted cannot be directly converted to battery or mains operation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,10,12,15,22,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}