Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 19:01:31 -0800
Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Disconnecting my loud ticking clock?
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Mr Rocket.
You are scaring me!
I'll n-n-never dry camp alone in the woods again!
N-n-n-neil.
On Jan 5, 2008 4:29 PM, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, Don camps in the California desert a lot. Can get real quiet out
> there. Too quiet. A loudly-ticking clock could cover up the sound of a
> crazed Charlie Manson-like ax murderer creeping up on you in the dark. In
> the night. In the dark. Alone.
>
> tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
>
> "What was that?"
>
> tick tick tick tick tick
>
> "I didn't hear anything."
>
> "Shh -- listen!"
>
> tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
>
> "I still don't hear any -- ARRGGH, NO!" CRASH "HELP! SOMEBODY HELP US,
> HE'S GOT AN AX, HE'S GOT AN . . . "
>
> tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
>
> On 1/5/2008 4:07 PM Mike Collum wrote:
>
> > It would probably be better if you first pulled the instrument cluster
> > so you can maneuver it and see well, but, if you look at the back of the
> > clock (front of the bus) you'll easily see both electrical connections.
> > One is even labeled +12v.
> >
> > You do realize that there are those that have been trying, to no avail,
> > to get their analog clocks running, huh? I can almost sense the heads
> > shaking. LOL
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > dhanson@gorge.net wrote:
> >> One message just dissapeared from my screen, so if this is a duplicate, sorry. I need
> >> advice/direction on how to silence my clock in an 84 regular van. I don't see an obvious connection
> >> to the clock from the printed circuit "foil" and I don't get how to find it on the Bently wiring
> >> page with enough confidence to go cutting a circuit..
> >> I have plenty of other time-pieces around in my van and the analog clock is quite irritating when
> >> all is quiet around camp.
> >> Thanks all,
> >> Don Hanson
> >>
>
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