7 Aug
2002
7 Aug
'02
8:48 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 07:30:31PM +0100, Tony Duell was confused by
my previous description.
Um, never trust an eye witness. Last night I shined a bright light
into the guts of my clock, and I was wildly wrong in my previous
posting.
It *is* an escapement movement. The prawl I was remembering was a
completely different clock. Sorry for the confusion.
Another (smaller!) correction: the self-winding "motor" is a single
action device. A solenoid pulls a lever in, and a spring pulls it
back. (I think I had earlier said it was two solenoids pulling
alternately.)
Damn. Maybe someone will collect the whole stack and sell and ship
them to others.
-kb
Seeing another
e-mail that there are a bunch of these in the 'tty
warehouse, I think you might want to visit NJ soon and get one.
There is the slight problem that the Atlantic Ocean is in the way!