As seen in context above, Greg Garner <Greg@rt-eng.com> wrote:
"...What they do is to do some machining work on your clock in order
to make the BORG clock kit fit..."
Doesn't seem too difficult. Lets take a look at what it might take to
adapt the Borg Quartz Kit to our GT clocks.
Stock clock on the left & our subject laid out beside it. Thats Borg
instructions in the background.
Now we have RTE instructions in the background & just making sure
the Borg kit will fit in the rear housing well enough. So far so good!
The stock mechanism needs to give up the hour & minute gears.
The hour & minute gears are the top two.
So the plan is to add your minute gear to the kit, choose the appropriate transfer gear from the kit & follow up with your hour
gear.
My gears will not fit on the clock kit. Time to investigate what
machining is required. Well, first off, the minute gear hole could be
enlarged or the shaft on the kit reduced in diameter. But wait: the
drive gear is too close
There are so far only two solutions that
I can see. They are to either get the E Body clock gears or to not
play at all.
Yes, there is more. Say, we do actually find the E Body gears.
What then? Well mounting it all to our clock face, of course! This
too is a busted hope. The hour, minute & secondhands must
protrude from the center of the face. (everybody kno dat)
This requires new mount holes. More of the alluded machining we
heard of! The trouble is there is no way to center the kit on the
face & engage the time set gears.
It is my belief that only a low voltage & high current limiter will save
your clock after it is rebuilt. That is until a quartz kit is developed for
our GT clocks
Thus this chapter closes.
There are so far only two solutions that 