[modeleng] Re: Is this a record?

  • From: "kenny" <kenny.macdougall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:28:43 +0100

Nice Story Jesse.
Kenny
Skye
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:17 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Is this a record?


>I have a pocket calculator I used for many years at the sawmill to 
>determine
> the downtime etc.  This was a daily thing and when I left the mill I kept
> the calculator, a Sharp, and used it at home.  After 20 some years I 
> decided
> that maybe I ought to replace the battery/s so I took off the back.
> Amazingly, it still had the original Chinese made AAA batteries in it and
> still worked perfectly so I sealed it back up.  It is somewhere in the 
> mess
> on my computer desk, but I know not where so I had to zip off and purchase 
> a
> new calculator yesterday.  The new one has larger numerals which help my
> nearly 80 year old peepers and is fueled by a solar cell, but other than
> that, I had rather have the old Sharp with its antique batteries.
>
> Speaking of watches, my parents gave me a Wyler Incaflex wrist watch just
> before I went into Uncle Sams service during the Korean mess.  A nice 
> watch
> it is/was, but while at Ft Jackson, it needed cleaning so I took it to a
> jeweler.  After I got it back, it would suddenly gain 10 or 15 minutes.  I
> came home on leave about that time and told my father what it was doing. 
> He
> said there was an old machinist!! at the railroad who was good with 
> watches
> so with misgivings I let him take it to the old fellow, a Mr. King, who 
> was
> self taught in watch work.  When I got it back, my father said that 
> whoever
> had cleaned it had left out a thin washer from the works and that allowed 
> a
> couple of the gears to bypass each other.  I wore the watch when I left 
> the
> Army and immediately went to work at the railroad as a machinist 
> apprentice
> (It helps if your father is assistant Master Mechanic) After a while the
> watch got dirty so I handed it to Mr. King for a cleaning and it came back
> running perfectly.  Over the years Mr. King cleaned the watch about once a
> year, but then he died.  It needed cleaning eventually so I took it to 
> three
> different "watchmakers" and they could never get it to run more than a few
> days.  It was sort of like the Grandfather's clock that ran 100 years 
> until
> the old man died and never ran again.
>
> Jesse in windy and cool Troy, TN USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phill Smith" <steam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:56 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Is this a record?
>
>
>> I'd call that a win!!
>> I don't think there's much chance of that record being beaten..... Ever. 
>> I
>> wonder how/if it could be recorded in the Guiness Book of Records....
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Clif Walker" <clif.gwr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:39 PM
>> Subject: [modeleng] Is this a record?
>>
>>
>>> HI All,
>>> As it's a bit quite at the moment, a bid for a record.
>>>
>>> Somewhere about 15 years ago I won a small Transistor Radio in a
>>> competition. It was the type where it has one battery for the Radio
>>> Section and another watch type battery for a small digital clock.
>>>
>>> The upshot is that after initial use the radio got relegated and then
>>> never used and the 9 volt radio battery removed to stop corrosion.
>>>
>>> The other day when looking for something else in the workshop, the radio
>>> surfaced. To my amazement the clock was still going. The digital figures
>>> are getting a bit feint but the time was still correct.
>>>
>>> So the watch battery must have been going for at least 15 years.
>>>
>>> Is this a record or can somebody beat it?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Clif
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