Hello
I've spoken to owners of 6 clocks - all without functioning celluloid strip. Of course, it would be great if these machines could be resupplied with a functioning strip. I was trying to figure out how to replace the endless strip, and it seems that one has to dismantle the mechanism. Obviously the maker thought that the strip would survive as long as the machine did. I sent a little article to www.romfi.com, and surprisingy it was accepted & landed on the start page :-) I've also put some better pictures on www.hiller.netfirms.com. You can see a picture of the strip as well. It looks very much like it came out a camera. So the interest to re-make the strip is biting. I think that one would have to do it as the original - ie. make a big 20 inch matrix and transpose an original recording onto it (another challenge). I spoke with someone in Germany who is more clued up than myself, and we will probably take a shot at it as a technical challenge. Would anyone have a guess at how many clocks are still out there? I have posted one into romfi, and people can enter theirs there as well and then one will be able too see approximately how many in fact are around. I'm wondering about the '300 produced' statistic as the one I posted has serial no. 1498, and I read somewhere of one with a number in the 400's? Any help on this subject would be appreciated thanks Robert _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
