Hello, My name is Levi and I'm 35 years old and I'm self taught in repairing Electronics and clocks and antique fans.
I've been fascinated by the flip-dial clock ever since I was little because I just loved watching the number plates drop (my parents had one of these clocks when I was a kid, it was a GE Clock radio but it wasn't functioning by the time I was old enough to know what it was so me and my cousin and sister used to use it like a "timer" and time our laps when we would race around the house by spinning the time set knob.)
Anyways it was always a dream of mine to find one that was in working order and actually worked as intended and I did finally find one about 10 years ago, it was a Sony Digimatic Clock Radio from the early 1970s that looked like the one seen below, and it was in perfect working order except the light for the alarm set dial, but the clock mechanism (which used a Copal Motor) was still functioning on it and also the radio still worked on it including the back light for the tuning dial, but then one day the alarm decided it would start going off without even being set to go off, and so a friend of my housemate who I was living with at the time told me he could take a look at it for me, and I sent it with him, but then unfortunately I never saw the clock ever again, which really bummed me out.
So since then I had been on the look out for a new one, and I did finally find one at a local antique mall another Sony Digimatic, but this one didn't have a functioning clock mechanism, and I'll leave it at that for now, because I can tell you more about the clock later elsewhere on the forum.
The picture above is a picture that I grabbed off the internet
that shows the same model of clock radio that I had which was
my first fully functional flip-dial clock radio that I bought at Goodwill for $5 about 10 years ago.
The clock radio above was my very first encounter with a flip-dial clock radio,
which is discussed above, it was a non-functional unit, that was my mom's originally.
I've been fascinated by the flip-dial clock ever since I was little because I just loved watching the number plates drop (my parents had one of these clocks when I was a kid, it was a GE Clock radio but it wasn't functioning by the time I was old enough to know what it was so me and my cousin and sister used to use it like a "timer" and time our laps when we would race around the house by spinning the time set knob.)
Anyways it was always a dream of mine to find one that was in working order and actually worked as intended and I did finally find one about 10 years ago, it was a Sony Digimatic Clock Radio from the early 1970s that looked like the one seen below, and it was in perfect working order except the light for the alarm set dial, but the clock mechanism (which used a Copal Motor) was still functioning on it and also the radio still worked on it including the back light for the tuning dial, but then one day the alarm decided it would start going off without even being set to go off, and so a friend of my housemate who I was living with at the time told me he could take a look at it for me, and I sent it with him, but then unfortunately I never saw the clock ever again, which really bummed me out.
So since then I had been on the look out for a new one, and I did finally find one at a local antique mall another Sony Digimatic, but this one didn't have a functioning clock mechanism, and I'll leave it at that for now, because I can tell you more about the clock later elsewhere on the forum.
The picture above is a picture that I grabbed off the internet
that shows the same model of clock radio that I had which was
my first fully functional flip-dial clock radio that I bought at Goodwill for $5 about 10 years ago.
The clock radio above was my very first encounter with a flip-dial clock radio,
which is discussed above, it was a non-functional unit, that was my mom's originally.
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