No matter how smart you are, there is always someone smarter than you. Let me know if you'd like to see more pictures. I'm asking $1 + shipping for this radio, which is what I paid for it. The faceplate is a bit worn and scratched, but most of what is in the pics is the reflection of the rug. This clock uses a black light tube (tested and working) that makes the clock numbers "glow" in a dark room. The small light for the radio is burnt out, but the clock light is fine. All other chassis screwsare present and secure. The cabinet also has the plastic screw hole missing on the bottom left corner, which can be seen in the third photo (sorry that the photo of it is blurry). I will include the original rotor and gear with this clock radio, in case someone wants to try to rebuild the rotor. The widget features the following: - 3 widget sizes, 4x1, 4x2 and 5x2.
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The gear is a 18 tooth gear with a 1/8" note. A full featured, fully customizable digital clock and weather forecast widget. I also started cutting the rotor open with a dremel, but stopped.
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The problem is that I broke the clock rotor when I tried to free it up, and then melted the gear attached to it trying to remove it. The radio portion works fine on am and fm, and the case is pretty clean. This hook will catch any falling hour leaf (as mentioned above, it falls from its metal tab a few minutes before the hour) until it is released by the minute leaf's fall at the top of the hour.I'm tired of looking at this radio on my bench, and I would like it gone. The purpose of this tooth is as follows: at 45 minutes after the hour, the tooth pushes a small hook that protrudes into the hour wheel area. Minute leaves 45 through 59 have a small tooth on their left edges, pointing toward the hour leaves. The disadvantage of this is that 24-hour clocks cannot use this design, nor there is a way to show "AM" or "PM" information in a 12-hour design. A different design features 60 leaves with the numbers 1 to 12 repeated in fives, each leaf falling after 12 minutes. One leaf falls each half-hour, at approximately 25 and 55 minutes after the hour. Having two sets of leaves for each hour also allows the clock to alternate between 12- and 24-hour display, every half hour, like this: 12 am, 0 h, 1 am, 1 h, 2 am, 2 h. There are two of each hour, like this: 12 am, 12 am, 1 am, 1 am, 2 am, 2 am. No wonder Sony calls the TFM-C770W a deluxe FM/AM clock radio. These leaves have hour numbers printed on them. A beautiful example of Sony’s flipclock technology of the 1970’s. The slower wheel has connected to it a similar ring of leaves, only there are 48 leaves on this ring. This ring is put into position and rotated so that one page falls each minute, showing a new number for the minutes. Beautiful job (as always) - cant believe they would pay for all that and not do the caps though. The "book" is opened vertically, and its pages form a ring. 1970 Sony 8FC-79W Flip Clock Fully Restored for Customer. On the leaves are printed numerals so that, when a person holds two adjacent leaves apart like an open book, the two open leaves spell out a numeral, and flipping a leaf down increases the number shown by 1 unit. The faster wheel has connected to it a ring of 60 flat plastic leaves. The small hook which retains the hour leaves until the top of the hour can be dimly seen, retracted, in the inset.
This is a synchronous electric clock which is kept to the correct time by the 50/60 Hz AC power grid.
The narrow numbered wheel and knobs on the left are the alarm mechanism. The inset shows the metal tab holding back the top flap. Mechanism of a split-flap alarm clock, removed from its case.
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