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River Rat
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by River Rat » Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:16 pm
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by 93 Turbo » Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:18 am
You've got an amazing collection Mike. Congrats. J
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alund
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by alund » Wed Feb 02, 2022 9:05 am
Wow - That is a very nice piece!!! Congrats
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River Rat
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by River Rat » Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:40 am
Well got it today up on the wall and running. You can imagine WW2 RAF pilots looking at this for the time maybe for bombing missions know when to head off to their aircraft.
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by River Rat » Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:32 pm
Was interesting setting this clock up. It's a heavy clock had to use a stud finder to find the proper place that would take the weight of this clock I used a long screw that I used my drill to put it in the wall. The pendulum you install that after you get it on the wall. There is a side door to put the pendulum in and a bottom door that locks to adjust the bob attached to the pendulum to adjust the speed. So far it is running OK. These have eight-day movement and is a fusee movement chain driven.
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Lukeeesteve
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by Lukeeesteve » Sat Feb 19, 2022 2:09 pm
Congratulations on the find. This is a beautiful find… 8 day anything makes it even cooler!
How is she running? Decent accuracy?
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by snootydog » Thu Mar 10, 2022 1:13 pm
That's a really nice clock and judging by the inscription it spent some of its time in Wales at RAF St Athan which is still there now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_St_Athan
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by River Rat » Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:35 pm
Andy one collector said it might be a maintenance mark. Since that base did maintenance but I have a feeling that clock was used at that base, Luke it keeps great time later clocks in WW2 did not use a fusee movement and those were not as accurate as the fusee ones. The later ones did not have a pendulum I guess the change was the pendulum on the fusee movements would stop in an air raid the shaking of the building during bombing would stop it and the clock would stop running. Something to think about right now Ukraine is feeling what Britin felt in WW2.
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