Today, my analog clock, hanging on the wall fell of its hook four times. I hung it back up again after it fell for the fourth time, and that was that. The clock had already stopped once prior to this, but i set it back to the right time and it went back to normal. But a while later, the second hand, moving normally until now, started going counter-clockwise for ten seconds. I took my eyes off it after the ten seconds, but quickly looked back, and when i did, the hand was going clockwise again, but now it was ten seconds slow. Can this happen? I know that the only way to make a clock run backwards is to flip the magnetic plate around the copper-wound electromagnet in the clock 180 degrees (you can see how clocks are made to do this here: http://backwardstime-moddy.blogspot.com), and since no matter how many times a clock falls, the plate cant flip itself, this occurance seems pretty impossible. Does anybody have any ideas? A clock expert's/repairer's answer would be greatly appreciated.
2007-03-23
08:46:24
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