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    I missed my alarm

    Still working on my Junghans Chrono Vox S, with the motor now fixed, I took up the next task: fix the alarm. At first I did not understand why it did not work or not even how it should have worked. Only when I compared it to my other Junghans Chrono Vox S it daunted on me: that spring blade that is supposed to make all that noise was missing! How could I be that blind

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    I clearly had bought a pig in a poke, but would not let that defeat me. I got a bit creative with some scrap metal and some hand tools and two hours later this pig had a working alarm

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    I feel mine even sounds a bit better than the original (or less awful).


    And here is the finished clock:

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    #2
    Looking nice in white! Good solution for the 'broken' alarm as well!

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      #3
      Beautiful clock and nice job making that missing part. It’s always nice to have a second clock to refer back too.

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        #4
        Very nicely done!

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