Hi,
I was looking up "flip clock noise" in duckduckgo and found this fan site. Pretty cool. I too enjoy the flip-clock radios. My first flip clock was back in 1979, when my mom gave me the one sheh had been using. I enjoy the flip clocks firstly because of the gentle "swoosh" sound they make when they change or flip time. It's very comforting. Weird, I know. I also like the clarity of the display. For instance, I was at the charity thrift store the other day and bought a Timex t236b clock radio for ten bucks. Brought it home and found out it takes a coin cell battery to keep the factory time settings when shipped, and three AA batteries for the alarm for if the power goes out. I replaced the coin cell and my my, it must have taken 10 minutes just to hold and depress the forward button to get the year from '99 to 2021! Finally, got it all set. Then, tried it for what I originally bought it for, the radio. Depressed the button, no radio. Depressed it again and again, no radio. I finally depressed it super hard and the radio came on. Cheap depress buttons! Then, found my favorite FM station and noticed a hum. I usually listen to the sleep feature of clock radios at very low, and the hum was even more noticeable when I turned the volume all the way down. Argh! My husband who is a mechanical engineer, told me it was probably poor shielding due to cheap components. I'm in my late fifties and I remember the Timex manufacturing plant along interstate 40 in Memphis during one of our many cross country moves as a kid. Timex is now owned by SDI Technologies after the 25 year ago sell-out by Slick Willy and other like-minded politicians. Enough said about that....then at night when I turned over and glanced at the time, I couldn't make out the numbers as I'm a person of a certain age and the numbers are LED black against three off-white seed lights. You can change the brightness to three different levels, but that didn't help. Brother! If I sound grumpy, well, this was a let-down. So, I got out my old Magnavox and plugged it in and set the time. The only problem is that it makes a rhythmic sound "cha cha cha cha cha, or ja ja ja ja ja. A couple of years ago my husband applied some liquid B12 Chemtool on the motor as it wouldn't spin. But this noise is enough to get to you after a while, but other than that, it has great sound in spite of not having one of those rat tail antennae as is on the Timex clock, and no hum during radio playback and keeps time perfectly.
Oops, my picture came out a bit huge. But thanks for this site and glad I found it.
Regards, Lisa
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