Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock(pointinthecloud.com) |
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock(pointinthecloud.com) |
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(The elevator motors are also up there so there's a lot going on.)
Shortly after 9/11 I was flying out of Hawaii back to the mainland and I watched the screen when they swabbed my bag. It reported as positive for every single type of explosive (to the best of my knowledge, I was not carrying anything even remotely explosive). The tech looked at the results, said "that can't possibly be right" and waved me on.
For extra fun times, baby wipes / wet wipes get flagged as explosives in the US when they use the sniffer devices.
We didn't put it at #1 though! That is a confirmation that we made a good pick.
Of course the above all depends on the exact situation in your area. Some of them are just a social club, and some are not. Some of them have religious affiliations that you may not like. Some of them are good in abstract but you hate the particular people in them.
We moved in to the house in 2003 and that battery died this year, so I would imagine that it is already or will very soon die. That said, if it's a backup battery and the electricity supply is stable then it may not make any difference.
https://www.rapidonline.com/yuasa-yuvolt-yucel-y1-2-6-valve-...
https://static.rapidonline.com/pdf/18-5207_v2.pdf
Design spec is up to 5 years. The one in the photo looks like it may have a date written in Sharpie on the side. I don't think it's 25 years old though. The "090323" on top could be DDMMYY indicating a battery from 2023.
If someone knew to replace the battery just three years ago, I would expect they also would have enough knowledge to set the clock itself. Or at least explain what was going on. Maybe this person isn't connected with the building anymore. But I would expect the new owners would be able to contact the old owners for help on this instead of sending a generalized call for help.
long-long-short-short-short is 7 in morse code. They don't say what time they tried this or if it ever changed, though, so that's just a hypothesis.
Perhaps the long-press commits the hour, which is why it rang once initially.
I didn't build the chime box but it looks like the sort of thing I used to do back then.
Fred Dibnah was a treasure. If you enjoyed 5 minutes of Big Ben, here's an hour of his day job in heavy industrial steeplejacking - "The Ups and Downs of Chimneys" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK2wF_-yoEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl_UA36ouzM&list=PL2vJ5Cg-wl...
> I had hoped we could do a "test" by letting the clock chime thirteen
What in the Orwell
it's literally kittycorner from City Hall, and hasn't been running for a while...
i'd do it for free if i knew who to even bother about getting up into it
https://www.youtube.com/@DingDongitsthebellguy
He also posts on reddit under dingdongbellguy
I've half an idea I did some networky stuff for the Community Wardens probably around the time that chime box was fitted - if you see anything marked Alvarion or Ceragon, it's probably got my real name on it somewhere.
I'd love to poke about in there some time, maybe if I'm down in that part of the world I can jump in and volunteer to help too.
There were three identical street clocks in Edinburgh that the council there have tried to remove. They succeeded with the one at Tollcross.
sometimes you get paid because you know things, sometimes you get paid because you know how to figure things out.
I could just hear the clockmaker James Martin calling me a butcher in his disapproving manner