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Here's mine again in my office right next to my Electrolux vacuums. (I will have to either move the clock or the vacuums). I DO have Universal stuff the clock will be more comfortable with. The home-made second hand looks red in this view. It looked black in the night-time picture.

Here's one of them. I saved this picture in the event I was to ever get one of these clocks....

And here it is finished and running. Universal. Hard to believe right? I made a new second hand out of Lexan to match what I had seen many times on auctions that I was out-bid on......grrrrr.

Here's the completed case of the clock ready for the stainless steel ring and the front glass. Can you see how the back of the clock is now flat as opposed to the way it looked without the sticks?

See?

Now re-fitted with the works and new lights. I went with the curly bulbs (even though I'm not fond of them) so they would cast a "white" light, and work cooler than incandesant bulbs.

Now, I have added these Distance Restoration Spacers (wood sticks) to the back of the case. They then press on the back of the face glass. The cardboard had become out of shape for what ever reason (had become concave)and in doing so, the hands rubbed the clock "crystal". It also made the hands...

This is where the hanger was repaired. You can see the wrinkle paint was able to move a lot more than on the "cardboard" and it is slightly more "wrinkled".

The outside was re-wrinkled. I could have painted over the black with a dark brown, but decided to leave it black.

I sprayed the interior with a high gloss white paint in hopes of having as much light reflection as possible.

These are the hands of the clock. The second hand is not original, but was necessary....you'll see why later on. The minute and hour hands got cleaned up and polished.

Here's the clock works and lights. Cleaned these up and did what little repair was required.

And repaired the hanger. I reinforced it with aluminum and PC-7.

Carefully worked off the rest of the old paint.

The composite material had seen better days, so these areas were treated with PC-7 epoxy.

No doubt it had slipped off it's hanger a few times...

So, I'm in St. Louis two or three years ago at a vacuum cleaner mini-meet, when I get a phone call from Hans (norgeway here on AW). He said he found a clock for me that I had been looking for, or had missed out on on auction sites and asked for my approval to buy it for me. Yes, I said, and here...

I seem to have the "kills threads" gene....

This is a nice thread.... ....hope it doesn't come to a screechin' hault.

How do I move a Unimatic? Simple. Place a Hooverwheelaway at the point you want the Unimatic. The Unimatic will move itself. Just like magnets, and like magic.....