Yep, that's a clock. I disassembled a few of those in my early years. I was good at taking apart door locks as well. The old skeleton key variety. Simple and interesting. Fascinating in fact, when one is six years old. Paul On Sep 28, 2006, at 11:08 PM, David Savage wrote:
> At 06:57 AM 29/09/2006, Digital Image Studio wrote: >> On 29/09/06, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I had an urge to work out how clocks where made too. I have no >>> idea how >> many >>> alarm clocks my parent had to buy me because of this ;-) >> >> Hmm, one of my childhood nick names was Mr Pull-apart and I >> chipped my >> front tooth whilst inspecting a clock innards (but that's another >> story) > > I was the same. > > My mother would walk into the room after I had disassembled/destroyed > something: > > "David look at what you've done. It's broken now & you won't get a > new one" > > I'd look up, smile, and say "Daddy fic it" (I had trouble with x's) > > He did too. > > Except for my Etcha-sketch (I had to break the glass to get into > it) & an > alarm clock. > > To bring this back on topic, years later I found the remains of > that clock > & took a picture of some of the bits: > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Macro/IMGP1577.jpg> > > Dave ;-) > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
