Try disconnecting the battery for a minute. This tip is more for a digital clock, but worth a try. The clock may have gotten in an unstable state with the low battery voltage. When the battery voltage voltage was back to normal it maintained the unstable state. On most mechanical analog clocks, a set of contacts much like a set of points senses when the spring needs winding. The points make contact and send power to a small motor that winds the spring, and when it's wound the contacts open to stop the winding motor. If the battery was so low that the spring did not fully wind, the coil of the motor may have overheated trying. Have you tried giving the clock a good hard smack? If that doesn't get it going you will probably have to send it out for repair. Look in Hemmings as the usually have adds for places that repair car clocks.
Good Luck, Dick Stachowiak 71 GTV 71 Spider On Jul 7, 2011, at Thursday July 7 2:30:18 AM, alfa-digest wrote: > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 09:53:17 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: [alfa] Jump Start Stella's Clock? > > Fellow Digesters: > When I covered up my '72 Berlina ("Stella") several weeks ago, I > didn't > > close the driver's door all the way so the interior light drained the > battery. After trickle charging the battery, Stella is running fine > but > her > clock is dead. Does anyone know of a trick to jump start Stella's > clock? > --West Clark > '72 Berlina (Stella) > '67 GTV (Spanky) > '66 Duetto (Lola) -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
