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All I Can Say is Wow!
I'm also NY'er my whole life and this is one tour I've missed.
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By: cazalea : September 3rd, 2012-14:27
Hi Art, There was a box full of olde bottles like that on the floor, I think. I didn't ask specifically, but he said they got some spare bits including the dial, just before the Howard factory closed back in the '80's. We did do a little "recycling" of th...
Interesting...
By: chaser579 : September 3rd, 2012-09:28
Having grown up in Queens, New York, I never knew stuff like this could be visited, etc. I now live in Colorado and worked with some of the folks from a local NAWCC chapter on the E. Howard tower clock at South High School in Denver, Colorado, a few years...
Wonderful!
By: Ophiuchus : September 6th, 2012-21:45
Nice to see some old school horology on here once in a while, historical items are very appreciated. I can't believe they have original lubricant bottles! Definitely something I will do next time I travel to New York, thanks for the article.
Many thanks...
By: nickd : September 3rd, 2012-22:36
A clock person says Thank You I love these old turret clocks. There's something very gentle about the way the gravity escapement gently nudges the 4m pendulum - totally different to the frenetic activity of a watch anchor escapement. Alex
Bureaucrats not Parisians...
By: nickd : September 7th, 2012-23:04
Minor correction... Many, if not most, Parisians would be in favour of the restoration, and would certainly approve of the clandestine way it was done. The problem is with the self-important, pompous, faceless, mindless, idiotic, lazy, over-paid bureaucra...
Beer-powered clock?
By: MTF : September 4th, 2012-08:07
cazalea, Thanks for the report. I like that the clock is water-powered...er....actually beer powered. Following the ancient formulae: 1) Man is given beer. 2) Man drinks beer. 3) Man winds clock. 4) Man pees. Where 1 + 2 equals 3 + 4. :-) MTF
beer-power?
By: cazalea : September 4th, 2012-09:01
MTF, Perhaps you have consumed some beer while reading the story, but the NYC clock I saw is powered by 750-1000 pound weights, pulled up once a week by an old electric motor. I did however see a beer truck from San Diego when I was in NY, while wearing m...
Yes and Yes
By: MTF : September 4th, 2012-11:45
cazalea, Yes: I was imbibing a small can of Chang (elephant) beer. :-) Yes: you had consumed an organic Peak beer before your winding adventure. Yes: most great ideas of Man occur after a beer or three............... hehehe, MTF