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Subject:Re: Disconnecting my loud ticking clock?
From:Michael Elliott
Date:Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:58:02 -0800

I'm just tryin' to help!
--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 1/7/2008 1:25 PM Jake de Villiers wrote:

> Ain't you the helpful one Rocky!
>
> On Jan 5, 2008 4:29 PM, Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> <mailto:camping.elliott@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hey, Don camps in the California desert a lot. Can get real quiet out
>     there. Too quiet. A loudly-ticking clock could cover up the sound of a
>     crazed Charlie Manson-like ax murderer creeping up on you in the
>     dark. In
>     the night. In the dark. Alone.
>
>     tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
>
>     "What was that?"
>
>     tick tick tick tick tick
>
>     "I didn't hear anything."
>
>     "Shh -- listen!"
>
>     tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
>
>     "I still don't hear any -- ARRGGH, NO!" CRASH "HELP! SOMEBODY HELP US,
>     HE'S GOT AN AX, HE'S GOT AN . . . "
>
>     tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
>
>     --
>     Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>     71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>     84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>     74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>     KG6RCR
>
>
>
>     On 1/5/2008 4:07 PM Mike Collum wrote:
>
>      > It would probably be better if you first pulled the instrument
>     cluster
>      > so you can maneuver it and see well, but, if you look at the back
>     of the
>      > clock (front of the bus) you'll easily see both electrical
>     connections.
>      >   One is even labeled +12v.
>      >
>      > You do realize that there are those that have been trying, to no
>     avail,
>      > to get their analog clocks running, huh?  I can almost sense the
>     heads
>      > shaking.  LOL
>      >
>      > Mike
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > dhanson@gorge.net <mailto:dhanson@gorge.net> wrote:
>      >>   One message just dissapeared from my screen, so if this is a
>     duplicate, sorry.  I need
>      >> advice/direction on how to silence my clock in an 84 regular
>     van.  I don't see an obvious connection
>      >> to the clock from the printed circuit "foil" and I don't get how
>     to find it on the Bently wiring
>      >> page with enough confidence to go cutting a circuit..
>      >>   I have plenty of other time-pieces around in my van and the
>     analog clock is quite irritating when
>      >> all is quiet around camp.
>      >>   Thanks all,
>      >>   Don Hanson
>      >>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
> 1984 Vanagon GL
> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> Crescent Beach, BC
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