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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2015 : Issue 23
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      studio clocks                         [ "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:49:45 -0400
    From: "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  studio clocks

    Charlie,

    If someone hasn't replied already about your question, you
    can find the Self Winding Clock Co.'s studio clocks, made
    for Western Union's time service, on eBay and other sites. I
    have a collection of three or four of them ... the ones with
    the sweep second hands that moved in half-second increments
    and corrected themselves each hour.

    Years ago in Dallas, I took a course or two in restoring
    them. By now I've forgotten most all of what I learned.
    However, during that period, when I had one apart, I put the
    clock dial up on the wall of our house and took a picture of
    it. This was back when there weren't all that many
    megapixels in a camera, so the result wasn't all that sharp
    ... but the dial looks clear enough at a little distance.
    Anyway, I Photoshopped it a bit, putting screw heads where
    they should be and put a red dot where the bulb that lights
    up on the hour would go. Then I asked a commercial printer
    friend, because he had a big enough laser printer, to make
    some 9-inch diameter copies. I had ordered several atomic
    clock kits from
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    and substituted my dials for the ones that came with the
    kit. I have three of these around the house ... keeping
    super accurate time as the old Western Union clocks did --
    and I don't have to fool with adjusting them for daylight
    and standard time.

    bc

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