It Still Runs!

A short, sharp video, recorded in August 2021. This is the clock and timer assembly from the gas stove in the Roach Palace. It still runs, even after the console on the stove was clamped in the jaws of the tractor's loader as the palace was being torn down.
Just how tough were Telechron clocks? You will be amazed.
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I still have this clock and it'd probably run like new if I cleaned and oiled it. Maybe I will.
There's been a bunch of sabre-rattling lately about blocking ads on KZbin. So, I hope to put a real bee in their bonnet when I tell you that I allow and encourage you to block ads on my videos if you wish. It's your computer, after all. They can cram it. (And if that's the end of my KZbin account for saying so, well, it's been fun.)

[@vwestlife]

It still runs? Better go catch it!

[@garrettdidomizio2391]

Glad to see ya Bill!

[@AiOinc1]

Wow! Still wish we saw more of the inside of the roach palace before it fell over, but this is a cool memento to keep. Amazing that it still works. Always good to see a new video from you.

[@uxwbill]

I wanted to go through more of the Roach Palace before it came down. I didn't trust it enough structurally to do so by that point. I also really wanted to see it come down!

[@AiOinc1]

@@uxwbill Yep I recall you saying something to that effect in the video. Wish you got to see it fall over in person! What's the space used for now? More cars?

[@uxwbill]

@@AiOinc1 It's just an empty grassy lot. My brothers and I don't have the time any more for project cars. I don't know if I will ever put anything back up there or not.

[@santinocappellaro7468]

It's great hearing from you UXW Bill !! Miss the car and truck videos!! 🇺🇲🏁🏁🏁😎🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@TheTrueVoiceOfReason]

Perfect for October - Dr. Frankenbill: It's alive. IT'S ALIVE! Good to hear from you, Bill.

[@misterrocks3035]

The clock still runs and this is still the first comment that needed to be made :D

[@mercuryoak2]

I remember that type of clock you would see in a range stove. My late grandparents had a high point range that they got probably in the late 70s early 80s and it had this type of clock on it. They had to change the range to a newer style because the original bit the dust. And the new one was a GE. They have digital Clark and digital buttons for the oven function which they had to get used to and my grandmother didn't like it. You know what it's funny though is my mom resides in that house now and I never knew what was used to make sure the range had power I thought it was a circuit breaker. To my surprise that house has cartridge style fuses just like your parents house has. The house was built in 1951/1952. Still has fuses for most of the stuff except for the dryer and the boiler it is a circuit breakers. Glad you got that clock running. Good job

[@RielMatildaRoman]

Cool clock

[@wilkes85]

That's probably one of the few mechanical stove clocks that still runs lol... it would be cool to clean and lube it and install it in a cabinet as a desk clock. I bet you could find a good use for the timer function too, like a switched outlet.

[@uxwbill]

It's also probably pretty close to one of the last ones ever made, before they all went digital. The clock/timer in my mother's 1971 Hotpoint stove is also still going strong. I hadn't thought of building a cabinet for it. I might do that.

[@eDoc2020]

@@uxwbill When was this stove made? The old stove that used to be here would have been installed around 1996 and was still equipped with an electromechanical clock. It was a plain analog-face clock rather than a more expensive digital readout like yours has.

[@robertsitch1415]

It seems that the 1990s was the main transition decade for digital oven controls. It seems that just about everyone younger than uxwbill expects digital controls for nearly everything.

[@Underappreciatedclassics]

Was literally talking to one of my fellow vintage computer enthusiasts about you. So funny you uploaded today

[@Bleachanna]

In the back of my mind i wondered if that thing worked when you made note of it in the roach palace video. Satisfied my curiosity!

[@whosaidavery]

Telechron made a fine synchronous motor. It was a big deal back in the day when you had an electric clock fitted with a Telechron motor.

[@mikehall3976]

Thank you for the follow-up! Wasn't expecting to see it.

[@davoid96]

Its good to see a new video from you Bill! Ive been binge watching your old vids the last couple days.

[@odius94]

an unexpected bill!

[@JoshuasRecordings]

Thats awesome. Glad to know these have Telechron motions in them, i have one on my electric GE range in my house now. Thing works like a charm, still keeps perfect time too.

[@geronimome4153]

Great video bill , wish you could do more.

[@Bluethunderboom]

I didn't know that the clock still works. It's a good idea to save this clock from scrap run and from gas stove that is far gone. Hopefully, down the road, the clock will be restored and build a wood box for the clock. Who knows it might be a table clock instead of the stove clock.

[@DimensionDude]

A uxwbill short, but without the vertical video. Thanks!

[@uxwbill]

I don't know if recording a "short" imposes that cursed vertical video formatting. If it does...no thanks!

[@weasel2htm]

@@uxwbill KZbin won't consider it a short if it's NOT vertical video.

[@eDoc2020]

@@weasel2htm I believe square videos are also eligible to be considered "shorts" so _technically_ it doesn't need to be vertical. Now I'm wondering how YT will classify a video with nonsquare pixels. If they only look at the pixel count that will trick it. After a video with nonsquare pixels is uploaded the transcoded versions have properly scaled square pixels so if that step is performed first this trick definitely won't work.

[@hofertyp]

I'm follower since around 2012 lost and refound this channel. Is the keykeeper still around loved those old videos ❤

[@Destroyed007]

Now to turn it into an indestructible tabletop radio clock

[@rrcoster]

Glad to see a new upload Bill

[@joeyf504327]

looks very similar to the clock and timers from our 19080s JennAir double oven i grew up with

[@standard74521]

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[@windowsuser321]

Hey uxwbill -- This is awesome! I love seeing machinery still wanting to keep going despite years and years of abuse. It rarely happens with modern stuff, but if you go back into the 70s or earlier, you will start to find things that have been thru hell and back, yet still want to run...whether successfully or not. I'm curious, and I'm not trying to push you to make computer videos -- I am not that kind of person, you owe nothing to me -- what computers are you using today? I have noticed that a lot of people hanging on to Windows XP or 7 have had to acquiesce and adopt the junk that is Windows 10 and 11 (incl. me), so I can't imagine that you are still using any Pentium 4 PCs or similar. And, is your daily driver still the...2003? 2007? Silverado 1500? Do you have any other cars that are in running shape that you rotate around on occasion?

[@tricogustrico]

Wow you must live in a humid place, here there would be dust and no rust.

[@rangerpru]

Always great to see a Uxwbill video. This may be your shortest one ever?

[@PastPreserver]

ITS ALIVE!!!

[@twocvbloke]

Build it right, it'll last forever, build it to what an accountant says is right, it'll be in the bin before you know it... :P

[@ryanthenascarguy4871]

Woah!

[@KrissBartlett]

looks like needs a good clean

[@HiVizCamo]

Any signs of the the gas heater from the RP kitchen, was that salvageable? Same engineering and manufacturing heritage as this bad boy, it might have been.

[@uxwbill]

There wasn't a heater in the RP kitchen. The nearest one would have been the Chattanooga Royal unit in the laundry area, and it went off to scrap along with all the other metal from the house. I saw no particular reason to save it. I didn't have any use for it personally, it was not in the best condition and I wouldn't want any liability from selling it.

[@thelazyfishkeeper2730]

it looks a littel rough. will it be getting some tlc? or just put back in the box,and shoved back into the back of thecloset...stay well

[@PINKBOY1006]

This isn’t the clock out of the oven in the main house is it or was it from something else?

[@uxwbill]

It's from the wrecked stove that was in the Roach Palace when it was torn down.

[@PINKBOY1006]

@@uxwbill oh wow, I had forgotten all about that stove. Geez time flies, I remember you getting that house electrified again and doing all sorts of things to it. The thermostat hack for the wall heater always comes to mind when I think of that house. Shame the roach palace was too far gone in many respects.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

Reads the video description Whoa that's blasphemy Uxwbill, tho shall not speak ill of Google/KZbin lol.

[@uxwbill]

I did, which proves that it's possible. At least for a while.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

@@uxwbill 🤣🤣🤣 indded