It's a roll clock like mine but it's much smaller, and the black case with silver face is more modern looking. I've seen the same clock show up in several movies I own. Maybe I should go with something like the GE 8142-4. They kinda look like stereos from classic cars! Personally I like the look of old fashioned radio tuners, especially ones that light up. I have been using it for a while now as my daily alarm and it works flawlessly, and the sound quality is good. The GE I restored seems to be very well built. The GE clocks at least "tried" to look like real wood instead of brown plastic! He's always commenting on my clock so I'm sure he would be satisfied with another model besides the one from the movie. It displays the time with flip animation in large white numerals against a black background. Personally I think most of the Panasonics look like very cheap plastic. Fliqlo for Mac/Windows is a clock screensaver that allows you to make your desktop/laptop device screen look like a flip clock. Thanks for the great input Mackey! I see your point, I should probably just look for a more stylish clock if I'm not getting the real deal. Honestly, the Panasonic flip clock radios are not that cool looking to a non-FlipClockFan (ask my wife!). not a clock radio (they look nicer anyway) and your friend's significant other, if he has one who is style conscious, will like that better anyway. In fact, if your not going to get the real deal, I'd get just a clock. Perfect for dorm room, office or bedside In good, tested, working condition (both clock and alarm), the clock has minor scuffs and. I'd just as soon someone got me a decent restored flip clock like yours instead of one "sort of like" the one in the movie. Heres a vintage General Electric flip clock Model 8125 from the 1970s This retro electric alarm clock has a black clock face with a white plastic rectangular case. Just getting a flip clock that sort of looked like the movie clock would not have done nothing for me. ![]() It was christened the 'Suspended Animation Clock' which carried on after it's tenure with Sharper Image had ended, and is even carried on in some knockoffs today. I'm speaking from experience, because I'm a big fan of Groundhog Day (the movie). In the early 2000's, Sharper Image brought a new novelty clock to market that hadn't been seen before outside of a few very niche applications. You can get him a clock like the one in Back to the Future, but it's not going to be the right clock. I believe the GEs are more reliable overall but nothing can touch the Copal Clocks for reliability. The motors tend to freeze up more than others (I think because the case lets in too much dust compared to GEs and especially early Copal clocks), but the motors are very easy to free up with a little cleaning. The RC-6015s are notoriously easy to crack. Which is almost what the seller on eBay is selling one bulb for.Īs far as reliability. Miniatronics is the brand I use for this. They look exactly like the original when you add a little white shrink wrap to them. It's a 12V 50mA 5.5mm diameter bulbs with leads. There one on eBay but it's ridiculously priced Unless it has immense sentimental value, I would just use it until it stops and then maybe attempt to swap some parts if you're attached to it.The RC-6040 is going to take the bulb most of those Panasonic's take. There are quite a few for sale on Ebay so you might be able to harvest one or two for parts, but most are sold as non-working. They are designed to be dry.Īs for preserving it and leaving it unplugged.not sure why as it is designed to be used to tell time.and play some tunes. FlipClockFans is a web forum with members who include the most well known and experienced restorers and collectors of flip clocks in the world. I like the layout and the colour on this one The price (currently anyway) is right as well. ![]() It'll need to be cleaned, but do not lubricate the cams and interlocking gears on the cylinders. Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 2132 1 RCA avocado/grey flip-radio-clock May 24, 2021, 04:12 AM. They get dusty/dirty and when they interface with each other they can make noise. The groaning you hear are the cams that interlock to move the cylinders. Model QP-213 Type: 12-H The clock will not work so if you have a clock that needs parts or know how to fix this one you can buy it. Emerson also used the same movement in one of their models. They used 3 different induction motors (2 of them were Telechron knockoffs from Omron) during the production of this model in 1975-1976 and all of them were unreliable. ![]() The TFM-660W (and TFM-770W) suffers from a fragile motor assembly that will, at some point, fail.
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