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Originally Posted by Billy-O
In this case for a meter that measures time for a machine in use, wouldn't it have to have something to stop the clock when the machine is NOT is use?
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The spring is small and the hour meter only runs a minute or so in each
electro magnetic wind impulse.
When you turn the key off it continues to run maybe half a minute.
While the car clocks used a longer spring.
IIRR they ran about 3 minutes between impulses.
They were not a coiled spring like a 8 day clock or a rope starter spring
they are about the size of a ball point pen spring, like a mini screen door spring.
Still remember hearing the clock "click/rewind" when sitting in my '56 chevy,
Now I'd be lucky to hear the engine running.
