After finding this formerly non-running Copal 705L on buyee for a nice price, it arrived at my house! As per usual, let's not even talk about the international shipping price, we're trying to forget about that lol. Anyhow, it actually came in great shape, alongside another TFM-C400 that I needed parts from to make mine perfect, but that's for another time.
Getting to the teardown, these are quite simple to get apart! The whole body shell of the clock is one piece of metal, I'm not sure if it's copper or bronze. But it's an interesting design, where the sides come off the ends and the clock mechanism slides out that way!
To fix it, I had to oil the motor, clean the gearbox, and clean the tiles as they were quite dirty for some reason. As a side note, this is one of the few clocks I've seen that uses both blacklighting and a neon bulb!
After those adjustments, it runs perfectly! Such a nice piece of flip clock history, I feel like this is really a high end clock for the time period. I have yet to encounter a clock with a metal enclosure, not wood or plastic. The blacklight, which still works as you see, is such a cool element as well. It's so fancy yet so simple!
There is a small message in Japanese on the back. No idea what it says, maybe someone can translate it. Anyways, just wanted to share this!
Getting to the teardown, these are quite simple to get apart! The whole body shell of the clock is one piece of metal, I'm not sure if it's copper or bronze. But it's an interesting design, where the sides come off the ends and the clock mechanism slides out that way!
To fix it, I had to oil the motor, clean the gearbox, and clean the tiles as they were quite dirty for some reason. As a side note, this is one of the few clocks I've seen that uses both blacklighting and a neon bulb!
After those adjustments, it runs perfectly! Such a nice piece of flip clock history, I feel like this is really a high end clock for the time period. I have yet to encounter a clock with a metal enclosure, not wood or plastic. The blacklight, which still works as you see, is such a cool element as well. It's so fancy yet so simple!
There is a small message in Japanese on the back. No idea what it says, maybe someone can translate it. Anyways, just wanted to share this!
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