Doug, The clock is a summer soldier, and a sunshine patriot...with apologies to Thomas Paine. You as a Canadian, may not appreciate TP. He was the phampleteer who may have libeled George III and gave spirit to the American Revolution.. My Westy clock has the winter blues and the summer brightness. I live in the Desert, so temps gets high, high, and not too low. Dave Beirel suggested the problem may be, "a bad solder, something may be stuck to the small flywheel, the gear trained may be jammed, and/or most likely, a bad capacitor." .He "thinks" they are, to quote him, "100uF, 16v electolytics. They're marked 1001 16... might be 1000uF. Certainly worth pulling them and replacing with fresh ones. Radio Shack aluminum caps ought to do, and even if you buy 2 100s and 2 1000s, it's still probably $5 or less. Observe polarity when removing and replacing. If it's not the caps, you're probably SOL..." Tom Hanlon Palm Springs, CA 84 Westfalia Doug Alcock wrote: > How's this for easy ---------18 months ago my clock stopped working. The clock > repair went instantly on the Westy repair list --- where it has languished since > in the face of a (huge) number of more pressing issues. Last week it > mysteriously started working again. I studiously ignored it for a few days --- > thinking my van was toying with me --- then gave up; set it to the correct time > and it's been running perfectly since. I've heard of ignoring a problem 'til it > goes away -- but "ignore a problem 'til it fixed itself????". Hmmm.............I > wonder whar else I could try this on? > > Cheers, > Doug Alcock > '84 Westy > Toronto, Canada |
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