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I'm the King, baby! (wilth all apologies to Ash "don't call me 'Bruce'" Williams)
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Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:59:11 GMT
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So i've been working at this building here for well over 3 full time years now,
and was a bottom feeding contractor for 2 before that, so over 5 years here in
this building. And in that time there was this beautiful, ornate, gorgeous
grandfather clock sitting in the payroll area. The sad part was that it never
worked. Not once since I've been working here had I ever seen it working.
So, due to restructuring, reorganizing, and selling off parts of the building,
somehow this week that grandfather clock ended up right outside my cubicle.
Strange that.
I have a superfluous boo at it. Verry nice. But still not working.
I have a closer inspection--find keys that open it and wind it up. So I open it
and wind it up. Nope--was pretty much wound up anyway, and still not working.
Pendulum's fine, gears look great--nothing gummed up there.
Then I have a look at the 'escapement' gear, or that thingy which pushes the
pendulum so it'll continue to swing back and forth--"Hey! Something doens't
look right there!"
Seems that, probably well before I got here, this clock was moved and, during
that move, some 'smart person' decided to remove the heavy pendulum so as to not
damage the glass (or any other part of the clock). So that's what probably
happened, and when they set it up again, they didn't put the pendulum back on
right--the escapement wasn't properly situated to push the pendulum. So I stuck
the escapement pin back thru what I deduced was hte proper (and only) hole in
the pendulum arm, and the pendulum's been swinging back 'n forth now for well
over half an hour. I set the chime to ring so I'm at my desk, anticipating
that, in 3 minutes, I'll hear 'dem bells a ringin'!'.
We shall see.
Thanks to Eric and Leo who made LEGO clocks (of which I tried my hand a while
back) so that the 'innards' of a clock were not that unforeign to me.
Dave K
-who is starting to get the rep. in the building that he can fix anything
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