plastimo clock

[sailaboutvic]

We have a nice plastimo clock which stopped working.
A replacement is around £150 .
I didn't fancy paying that , so what do you do when these clock stop and stripping g them down get you no where?
I bet many here know what I'm about to say
For them who don't buy a cheap clock ( £3 ) and just change the moving parts .
Job done .

 

[Supertramp]

We have a nice plastimo clock which stopped working.
A replacement is around £150 .
I didn't fancy paying that , so what do you do when these clock stop and stripping g them down get you no where?
I bet many here know what I'm about to say
For them who don't buy a cheap clock ( £3 ) and just change the moving parts .
Job done .

And you can then use AA batteries instead of the strange and expensive one in my plastimo clock!

 

[Praxinoscope]

Not 100% certain about the workings of the Plastimo clock, but most of these clocks rely upon a small I.C. Clock chip, which is just a small metal cased chip with two wires, these do fail occasionally and are usually the reason for the clock failing, bt they are easy to replace if you are reasonably competent with a small soldering iron, and only cost a few pence each although you may find a minimum order of 10.

Additional information, thé chip is a 32.768KHz Crystal oscillator. Available from CPc or many other suppliers, it’s worth a try at only about £0.20 each.

 

[Graham376]

when ours packed up, I fitted a replacement movement off ebay for about a fiver. Lots to choose from but they vary in spindle length and the type of hand which fit. clock movement: Search Result | eBay

 

[sailaboutvic]

Not 100% certain about the workings of the Plastimo clock, but most of these clocks rely upon a small I.C. Clock chip, which is just a small metal cased chip with two wires, these do fail occasionally and are usually the reason for the clock failing, bt they are easy to replace if you are reasonably competent with a small soldering iron, and only cost a few pence each although you may find a minimum order of 10.

Additional information, thé chip is a 32.768KHz Crystal oscillator. Available from CPc or many other suppliers, it’s worth a try at only about £0.20 each.

View attachment 138196

Nothing like that .
Plastimo puts in a cheap windings .
Most cheap clocks have the same ones .

 

[sailaboutvic]

when ours packed up, I fitted a replacement movement off ebay for about a fiver. Lots to choose from but they vary in spindle length and the type of hand which fit. clock movement: Search Result | eBay

Yep that type, I found the same one in a Acton shop for £3

 

[TonyMS]

We have a German radio controlled clock, about 150mm diameter, that cost about €12, and has worked brilliantly for about 10 years. Look on Amazon.de.

 

[Plum]

when ours packed up, I fitted a replacement movement off ebay for about a fiver. Lots to choose from but they vary in spindle length and the type of hand which fit. clock movement: Search Result | eBay

+1. I did the same when my 20 year old plastimo movement stopped last month. The cheap ebay movement looked almost identical the the Plastimo made-in-China original

www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk

 

[dunedin]

when ours packed up, I fitted a replacement movement off ebay for about a fiver. Lots to choose from but they vary in spindle length and the type of hand which fit. clock movement: Search Result | eBay

Yep, just did exactly the same on our clock- except needed part quickly so Amazon Prime next day. Total cost about a fiver.

 

[sailaboutvic]

Great to hear others have done the same and not throw a good clock away to add to the mount of rubbish.