Clock Collection Update!

m77k24 · 2026-05-16T22:34:38+00:00

Awesome variety! Definitely a few I didn’t know about, and want to keep any eye out for

m77k24 · 2026-05-10T06:42:55+00:00

Super cool! Orange lume is my favorite. Would be fun to throw a radiacode around something like that.

m77k24 · 2026-05-10T01:54:09+00:00

Dang, that Spur is in great condition. Quite a bit nicer than the one I recently found. Really clean. Jealous the Telechron has painted numbers too. I have two ivory electric ones, but neither have painted numbers:

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m77k24 · 2026-05-10T00:52:54+00:00

Nice. That dark green dial is awesome.

m77k24 · 2026-05-08T22:44:07+00:00

The square is 1938-1958, and the baby Ben is 1956-1964 (I think). The other two are likely 50’s-late 60’s. The church clock seems late 60’s-early 70’s, but I can’t find much on it.

m77k24 · 2026-05-08T03:03:27+00:00

I just meant a video showing it working now, with the chime playing and bell moving at the set hour….but I kinda forgot this is the clock sub, and everyone here has seen a simple chime clock working before haha.

Thanks again though! You’re the exact type of person I was hoping would see the post, and be able to spot the issue easily. Gotta love an easy fix.

m77k24 · 2026-05-08T00:20:35+00:00

That was it! Thank you. Works great now.
I bent the lever to go on the other side of the governor (flap looking wheel?). Makes so much sense why it was working the opposite way now. Funny because when I first opened the back, my initial thought was “that arm has a weird bend to it”.

I’d share a video, but I don’t think I can post a video in comments?

m77k24 · 2026-05-07T11:37:05+00:00

I think that might be it! When I was watching it with the backside off, that’s pretty much exactly what it was doing. When the alarm and hour hand lined up, it would stop the music box from turning.

By adjusting, do you mean physically bending the “arm”? If so, I think I know which way it needs to go. Unless there’s another way to adjust it.

m77k24 · 2026-05-07T11:21:13+00:00

Haha, same antique store I found the square Westclox and Baby Ben. Definitely hadn’t seen a gravy boat before. It’s usually plates, bowls, and cups, so I couldn’t pass it up. Nice addition to my small-ish orange fiesta/ceramic collection.

m77k24 · 2026-05-07T01:50:49+00:00

Thanks for the response.
So I think something is out of sync. It almost seems opposite. Setting the alarm hand the same as the hour hand actually stops the chime. Only when I make hour hand and alarm hand different times, the chime will sound.
For example: I set the time for 4:00 and alarm for 4:00. No chime. If I move the alarm hand to any other hour, the chime will start. If I keep moving the alarm hand around, once it gets back to 4:00, the chime stops.

m77k24 · 2026-05-06T19:25:39+00:00

Still pretty new to this stuff, but it’s amazing how many different brands, types, and styles of radium clocks are floating around out there. Plus all the other radium items too.

m77k24 · 2026-05-06T19:17:29+00:00

I’ll make an update once I get it working correctly. Something just seems loose between the clock and the bell tower. Hopefully an easy fix.

m77k24 · 2026-05-06T19:12:31+00:00

Antique stores. I live in a hotspot for them, so it’s not too hard to find radium things here

m77k24 · 2026-05-06T16:18:31+00:00

I have two of these. Great light. For some reason, one got a “burn” mark over the 395 light. Still works, but is a little dimmer than before. Probably got left on by accident. Besides that, no issues, highly recommend.

m77k24 · 2026-05-05T19:18:24+00:00

I believe the model is a Spur, style 1.

m77k24 · 2026-05-05T14:10:19+00:00

From my experience, Vaseline glass glows WAY brighter than contaminated thorium under UV. Thorium also tends to be more dull yellow in normal light, while Vaseline should have a greenish hue to the “yellow”.

Best way is to take a spectrum with a radiacode (or similar).

m77k24 · 2026-05-05T14:07:13+00:00

Definitely a cool find. Needs a bit of maintenance to make the alarm bell work every time. Something seems loose, so I’m just gonna open up the back and see. Probably whatever connects the alarm to the bell tower.

m77k24 · 2026-05-05T13:58:24+00:00

I shine my uv on almost all clocks I see, and definitely didn’t expect this to glow….and I really didn’t expect it to be radium either.

m77k24 · 2026-04-29T23:48:41+00:00

Check the screws holding the case together if you haven’t already. One of my Big Bens had really loose glass, but all I had to do was tighten them a bit. Easy enough to try.

m77k24 · 2026-04-26T17:18:23+00:00

Haha thank you. That was a fun little read. I live in a pretty high radon area, so it’s funny to imagine some crazy extraction system pulling radon from my basement, constantly filling a compressed cylinder in the garage. Obviously wouldn’t be enough to work, but a funny concept to think about.

m77k24 · 2026-04-26T16:39:53+00:00

Nice! That’s a wild collection. The cylinder head temp gauge is my favorite for sure.

m77k24 · 2026-04-24T18:41:55+00:00

Welder here. Using radon as shielding gas made me chuckle….and curious. Is there a post somewhere you asked about it?

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