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1972 Charger clock

pioneer61

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Anybody know how to repair these? More specifically...has anyone here disassembled one? Was hoping to simply oil it and get it working again, but like a good car guy, i created more work for myself by breaking the seconds hand trying to disassemble.

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I don’t know what you can do about the second hand, but one of the best ways to fix clocks is to buy and install a quartz conversion. That’s what I did for my 68 Tic Toc Tach. For about $95 you can get a battery operated replacement. That includes everything, the clock face the hands and the clock mechanism. The Battery has to be replaced every year or two.
If the clock mechanism in it is similar to the one in my 68 Coronet, oiling it will probably not fix it. It has a pair of points inside that get worn out.
 
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i considered the quartz, but man....getting this apart to do it became a real problem
 
Plug this into the Epay search box to see the battery clock. I don't know if anyone repops your clock, but 68-70 B body repops go for over $350. Even the quartz conversions go for almost $100.

NEW! 1971 1972 1973 1974 Mopar B-Body Rallye Battery Powered Dash Clock
 
They use to get the solenoid breaker points stuck, burning out the solenoid coil. If you have luck the coil wire just could get cut right at the end where it feeds one of the points and you could try to fix it winding out a wire turn of coil and reattach or solding a piece of wire to rebuilt the coil end to the point. HOWEVER if the breaker points surface are damaged, someday it could get eventually stuck again and burn again the fix. So the points will need to be resurfaced ( with sand paper ) if damage is not deep or even replaced if damage is deep.

Those points are linked to the clock spring arm and the responsable of make a small short able to wind out the points and give to the clock spring the tension to make work the clock system. That happens every minute or so, everytime the points gets in touch.

I have played with 2 of these clocks. One got the coil assembly completelly melt, the other one needed to be fixed as I mentioned quite often, but with the points already damaged no matter how much I try to resurface it, it did keep getting stuck quite often. The points replacement was the solution but I don't have the tools to make it neither the source for replacements. Fortunately finally found a clock in good conditions.

Maybe I could try to get some distributor points assembly as a points donor, dunno, never tried.
 
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by the moments... do you know if actually works ? just need to apply voltage to the prong and ground the case. It can be made even with a 9 volts batt.

about oiling... they actually don't need to keep oiled, couple fo drops here and there and the oil will spread all around by itself.
 
by the moments... do you know if actually works ? just need to apply voltage to the prong and ground the case. It can be made even with a 9 volts batt.

about oiling... they actually don't need to keep oiled, couple fo drops here and there and the oil will spread all around by itself.[/QUOT
i bench tested it...it's a no-go.
 
thanks to all who responded....especially NachoRTg74....excellent info. Being that i broke the seconds hand and will probably break more things trying to get it apart, i decided to send this off in Instrument Specialties.
 
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