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Clocks, here's the deal

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jlaird

jlaird

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Take one MGB clock, made in Germany.

Cut the black steel ring off the case, replace with a 2 inch Spridget chrome ring off an old insterment. Use the orginal seals and such. Add a 2 inch O ring for between the clock and the dash. Cut hole in dash as required, use an old insturment mounting bracket on the rear.


Now you have an optional Bugeye or Spridget dash clock.
 
Jack,

I was wondering where you had been. Sounds nice.

Pat
 
I had a visitor, Tony was here with his wife. Good talk, good food, nice drive. Tony even drove a bit.
 
I kinda figger'd the bezels would interchange but never had a clock to try it out with.

That's great info, Jack! Now I gotta get a clock from Tony... along with a BUNCH of other stuff. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
Yep Ray, those are nice if you need gauges of course. However, they are not quite orginal but for the water temp/oil pressure one. For example the fuel gauge on our cars has the needle comming from the top.

A good deal if you are really stuck.
 
Jack - I'll mail you the little mounting bracket & knurled knob when I get home.
 
Oh, neat, thanks Tony. Kind of wondered how I was going to coble something for that. Is a really close fit for a reg gauge bracket. It would need to be insulated it is so close.
 
I remember that the bunch of parts I just bought had some clock brackets thrown in a box - loose...I'll just have to go through them
 
Jack, I did the same thing with a clock!! Took the one out of my old VW Scirocco, swapped bezels and.."voila!"

You better be careful though, with Pos. ground the clock will run backwards and you will constantly be running out of time, hehe!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif
 
Jack

The links I sent previously each had Smiths clocks (in addition to all the gauges). Did you see the clocks?
 
Those old style clocks never worked that well. The points that applied the rewind when the spring wound down would get a little oxidized and it would miss a rewind every once in a while and the clock would run slow. They should have gold plated the points and it would have been better.
 
Yes I saw them. thanks.
 
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