Arvin Advertising Clock! WILL IT RUN? Part 1

Here we work on another vintage advertising clock.
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[@TomBiggerstaff-gn1ws]

Hell Ross I guess I'd watch you put a handle in a pitch fork lol

[@chrisduggins3435]

Fitting a pitchfork handle properly requires skill

[@TomBiggerstaff-gn1ws]

@@chrisduggins3435 yes it use to now days seams like the only handles you can find are the ones that all ready have the metal on them and thay cost as much as a new pitchfork thanks Chris

[@pagrainfarmer]

You sure have a wide range of things you collect. You must have a wall full of clocks. 😄😄

[@rosstheoliverman]

*walls 🤣

[@markflick1641]

Doesn’t matter what you do . We love your humor and entertainment so keep on doing what you do . Great video Ross, see ya tomorrow

[@keithwuchter624]

Nice fideo Ross. Looks like you got another nice clock there. Looks like it will cleanup nice.

[@larryfrey1283]

Making old stuff great again your channel mission statement 😅

[@bigun447]

A good friend repaired clocks and watches. He would put pocket watches and other clock mechanisms into an Ultrasonic Cleaner. Water with a touch of soap in the cleaner tank. Most mechanisms would start working after the Ultrasonic Cleaner did its magic. HF sells an Ultrasonic Cleaner. We sold Arvin exhaust systems back in the 1950s. They had a deal where if you purchased a package of popular mufflers you got an air impact chisel. I still have it. The last one of those popular mufflers that we still had in 1963 went on my first car as my Dad was against my having a straight pipe exhaust. He really got upset when I came home one weekend with 4" header dump tubes I made in the welding shop, sticking out from under my car. I had it sitting high with extra leaves in the springs and a spacer in each front spring and the front bumper taken off. I had rewired the OverDrive unit so I could shift it using a switch on the dash. That gave me 2 speeds in each of the 3 speeds on the gearbox. With the dump tubes open while cruising the main college drag, it was fun to pull up alongside some rich man's son in his Corvette and match his shifts, and then after he was in 4th gear I would shift into 5th gear. The welding shop instructor was cool. He let me bring in 4 rims and Spray Weld Aluminum on the wheels. Then I painted where the holes would have been on aluminum wheels flat black. The car was painted in red primer. It was my version of the high-riding Dodge the Ramchargers had on the dragstrip. The weak link was the ball trunion driveshaft joint. I scoured every junkyard and bought driveshafts with those joints. The joints were identical even if the driveshafts were different lengths. I removed the balls, the housings, and the pins and had a supply of them in my trunk. I could roll under that car, unbolt the broken joint, drive the pin out, put a new used housing on, drive the pin back in with my driver I made in machine shop class that guaranteed the pin was centered, put the new balls on and some grease in the housing and bolt it back on the transmission in about 15 minutes. I had found an overdrive unit from an earlier Chrysler that had a higher ratio and put the gears in my O/D unit. Those were the days. Hot rodding with a $5 budget. I came home every weekend to relieve Dad at the gas station. I worked cleaning the auto shops and had access to the cleaning solvent. I would put 5 gallons of gasoline in my car and then 5 gallons of the cleaning solvent. It ran well and kept the carb perfectly clean.

[@chadschiefelbein8697]

Since it’s winter and you really seem to love the cold weather 😂 you should do a video on your toy and clock collections! Unless you’ve got one from the past that I haven’t seen.

[@JoTa8389-gu9vi]

Wow what a flashback when I saw that round florescent light, we had a light fixture in the kitchen over the table with the same bulb maybe larger, it lasted forever and the meals we ate there. That's enough nostalgia. Good luck and I hope you can find the parts you need.

[@opasvintagegarage]

I know of the company, I believe they purchased Maremont in the late 80's and may have joined or consolidated production. I can not tell you how many of those mufflers and exhaust systems I installed at Farm and Fleet (Sears also used the same parts at their shop across the street as we would help each other out when either shop was short on exhaust parts) in my younger days back in the late 80's. The mufflers had a lifetime warranty and our rep (worked for Arvin parent) would need to inspect/approve every warrantee claim. When we collecte 50 mufflers, he would pay us a visit - plus he would always take us out for beers after the shop closed at 9PM - nice guy and great parts, never needed to fudge too much of the parts off the shelf. I tend to keep business cards, but I couldn't find his with that exact logo on it. Thanks for the video, that logo brought back a rush of memories!

[@hughperkins707]

Good morning Ross from Alberta, Canada

[@stephenheyes4324]

Ross has time on his hands

[@stewartlynch2676]

I have confidence that when you get the clock finished, it will read correctly at least twice pet day.

[@michaelsheeder148]

Ross, look like you've made time for the clock 🤣🤣 thanks Michael

[@TomThomas-w8b]

Arvin industry has quite the history,it’s really worth going back and looking up. Another great video Ross that brought back some memories

[@corydriver7634]

I guess the starting fluid worked ok on the plastic gears but my thought was Ward soapy water and a toothbrush. It probably wouldn’t hurt to put a couple of drops of 3in1 oil on them also. Cool clock, looking forward to the finish product.

[@jonathancrissinger2301]

Always something interesting. I do love your humor, lol. I think those old clocks are cool. See you later.

[@martymurphy7477]

just clocking along cool video

[@samuelashton4344]

Cool clock

[@michaelmcconnell7958]

That blue label says Union Label with a number beneath. I’ve seen that on other clocks.

[@AbcDef-iq4no]

I love old clocks and have restored a number of them. Several clocks I was restoring bad motors which I was able to replace with ones which I found in other clocks I bought from thrift stores. The thing I found out about replacing a motor was to find a clock with the same size face to take a motor from, because each motor is calibrated to a certain sized face. So if you take a motor out of a clock with a small face and put it in the clock you are restoring it will appear to run too fast, and conversely if you use one from a clock with a larger face than yours it will run too slow.

[@davidroberts3489]

Winter tinkering

[@tlewis2009]

Union label is that blue sticker. I believe the clock was a duralite products, should have been another sticker above that one saying that.

[@alexgarrod9093]

Nice bud good collection

[@dalehammond2264]

Ross I think the clocks were used as night lights. I enjoy your videos!

[@JohnBryant-qc5zg]

Careful!!!

[@stewartlynch2676]

Pretty sure the label is the sheet metal workers union labor sticker

[@larryklostermann5779]

Nice video Ross.

[@Ron-m9p]

my dad used to mess with pocket watches he used lite fluid to clean the working parts

[@Ron-m9p]

lighter fluid like the fluid that goes in a Zippo lighter

[@darweb3417]

Tick Tok; good luck!

[@AllanHanscom]

Another video!😊 Two days in a row...keep em coming brother, if you don't you'll lose favor with the tube, I hear it's a hard job to gain their favor but super easy to fall out of it. Time to get creative and keep piling up the views.

[@corydriver7634]

He has put out a video everyday for like the last three months.

[@AllanHanscom]

Not on my feed, I think you're watching reruns, since it turned cold Ross has been skipping a day now and then.@@corydriver7634

[@jaholl97]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@rosstheoliverman]

Thanks Jason!

[@shawnmarvin6348]

Hi Ross, I was just wondering maybe if what you called a " plastic type frame?" Is actually called "bake-o-lite? (SP?) Just a possibility?

[@kennycriswell141]

Did you get that clock that I tagged you on the Facebook post awhile back? I think it was already a older post when I tagged you.

[@drunkensasquach3311]

Farmers decided to bend tailpipes after taking it up the tailpipe

[@rosstheoliverman]

🤣🤣🤣

[@DonWelter]

Your mechanical talents are curiosity-driven...bet you were on the "outs list" as a 10 yr old taking various items apart. LOL No shortage to the variety of subjects in your videos. Likewise over the years I've taken a few things apart that weren't designed to be serviced, but if it's already broke there's a chance for revival!!!

[@paulprillwitz9901]

😄😄👍👍👍👍

[@servcetech81layton74]

Union sheet metal workers sticker

[@kennycriswell141]

Just my 2 cents worth brother. By changing them to LED don't that hurt the overall originality value of the clock?

[@345farm]

With all this closeup precision work with the camera…maybe you could get a manicure for us….sure would be purrrdy….