I recently picked up a really cool Westclox film roll clock with the detachable radio. My attempts to repair the motor appear to have ended in failure. I believe it to be a General Time M-5. What are my best options for finding a working motor in a clock that does not cost more then the one I"m trying to fix. I know S.T. and Westclox are general time any others? does it have to be a film clock or can it be from a cyclometer. Any help in my search appriciated
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Nice clock! My question is where did you fail? Did something break or are you unable to put it back to together? These motors are a bit tricky to work on, but should be very serviceable. -
I got it apart and opened ok but it appeared that one of the gears failed and just spinning. I tried the suggestion by Johan de Jong to super glue the gear but this time old eyes and fingers failed much the same way as that gear failed that clock I was just spinning my wheels never really got to the pleasure of trying to put it back together. I am sure that M-5 gear capsule must be a common piece I am just trying to avoid buying the wrong clock numerous times My question now is what clocks would it be most common in. Thanks as alwaysComment
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I'm not overly familiar with US type clocks, so someone else might be better in answering that question...Comment
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I found this today I"ll keep my fingers crossed that I get lucky but of coarse I could not get out of shopping that cheap when I could not pass up the second item at that price
$15.00
$49.99
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If you need a motor, let me know. I've got a spare kicking around here, though it is very noisy.
Good luck, and congratulations on the beauty of a clock!Comment
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Let me know if this is the type of clock mechanism you have (kinda like a tank tread or conveyor belt of numbers) and the other one you were acquiring doesn't work. I have one and I know of someone else who had at least two of those clock mechanisms that would likely sell them to you at a reasonable price (if he still has them... he was selling all his stuff). PM me if you need it since I don't monitor all the posts here.
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Thanks for all the offers. The motor on the junker dialite was working and I transferred it over to the radio model seems to be working well. absolutely no idea how you get into where the lite is I think they put the lite in and built the clock around it. I think I"m just going to work around it and put in led lighting. I still don:t have everything figured out as I had to take a day to buff up my near perfect $49 red and white 227. I was looking for a cheap westclocx when I got a you might also like this ad, I did have to read it twice to make sure before I hit buy it now A couple nice display pieces and nowhere left to display. Will find somewhere for themComment
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