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  1. tango

    The rarest or most interesting item

    "Before" isn't hugely impressive, the case is in pieces in the basement - much of it is plywood and the very top section (the part that holds the movement) is damaged from where it was dropped. If the price of wood doesn't go stupid I'm expecting the new case to be made from something nicer...
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    The rarest or most interesting item

    I have two grandmother clocks. One needs attention, the other needs major attention. By "major attention" I mean it needs to be serviced and cleaned and needs most of the case replaced. When I've got space for a new case for it, and got myself a workspace that's suitable for clock movements...
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    Current project/projects

    A house renovation. Updates range from frequent to patchy in the "What are you doing?" thread. Thankfully now I've got a better handle on a lot of stuff than I did when I started out, so the next couple of rooms to get rebuilt should be vastly faster than the first one.
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    The rarest or most interesting item

    I have a load of clocks. Some of them work. I have one I bought from a guy at an antique show on the basis it didn't work properly so really hammered him down on the price. Then when I got it home I literally used a piece of pegwood to get the balance wheel turning and it's been working just...
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    How safe where you live?

    Probably 1 or 2. Not far from me I know a couple of friends who still don't lock their house and leave their keys in their cars overnight. That said when I lived in the city I left my phone in my car overnight a couple of times, when the car was parked on the street, and it was still there in...
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    Driving vs being the passenger

    Depends on the setting. Going out with my wife she does most of the local driving and I do most of the longer distance driving. For local driving it doesn't make a lot of difference who drives, except that when we visit a brewery she's more into the food and I'm more into the beer so it makes...
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    The rarest or most interesting item

    It's a mantle clock but not a gingerbread type. I would post a picture but it's in a dark corner of the basement so I'm not sure how easy it would be to get at it. It, along with several others, has been covered over with sheets for some considerable time, to protect them from dust in the...
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    The Exodus

    For what it's worth I don't see anything wrong with asking questions like the ones you are asking. Sometimes we have to take things on faith - there's a lot of a sense of mystery where faith is concerned - but at the same time things that are true have a tendency to leave some kind of evidence...
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    The Exodus

    Years ago I came across a theory that the "pillar of fire by night" and "pillar of smoke by day" was the result of a volcano. In the day the smoke was visible and in the night the erupting volcano would look like a pillar of fire. It's an interesting theory but it's still just a theory. To...
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    The Exodus

    Did the poster in question give any explanation as to why he came up with his conclusion? It's easy to write something that says little more than "I went there and after much thought I now conclude that (whatever)." without providing anything that would withstand scrutiny. Unless the poster...
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    The rarest or most interesting item

    It was out of beat. If you set it level instead of a nice even tick...tock...tick...tock...tick...tock, you got something more like tick...........tock-tick.......tock-tick.......tock-tick. The fix was to push the pendulum all the way to one side, then very gently push it a little further...
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    The Entire Bible and Old Testament

    I've read the entire Bible except for the Psalms (I've read some of them, just not all of them). I really wasn't looking forward to Leviticus but actually found it fascinating. If you regard it as a list of "do this, don't do that" it looks like a very long and very tedious book of rules that...
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    The rarest or most interesting item

    Yes, I think most clocks that strike the hour also strike the half-hour. If it has three trains (and three weights, or three winding holes) it will also chime on the quarter hour. I believe some clocks with a single train will strike once on the hour. I've never seen such a clock myself - I...
  14. tango

    Listen Carefully

    My clocks ticking.
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    The rarest or most interesting item

    I have a clock that is almost exactly like that but in a slightly different case. It has a slightly hollow sounding strike. When I lived in a terraced house it sounded quite eerie from next door's living room.
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    The house you grew up in

    Depends how you define that house. My parents travelled on business a lot when I was a child so many different countries featured on the list. I was too young to remember much about very many of them, and many of the memories I have are muddled.
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    Some more progress on the house. I got a nasty sheet of plywood ripped off the floor, a load of scraps gathered up and a big pile of nasty splintered plywood and wood with nails in it burned. Another 120-150lb of drywall and plaster bagged up ready to go out with the trash. Another section of...
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    The rarest or most interesting item

    I've got all sorts of curious things floating about the house, it's hard to choose the most interesting among them. If I had to choose it would probably be an unusual ornament or one of many clocks. I have a clock my former next door neighbor asked me to look at, then when he and his wife...
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    The temperature in your house/apartment

    We have a heater in our room. When it gets really cold my wife sleeps in the spare room because she struggles with it. I'm OK with the temperature going way colder than many people - when it drops into single digits outside I don't turn the heater on until it drops to about 50 in the bedroom...
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    You are looking forward to

    The end of the silly posturing around this Wu-flu.
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