How can I be so STUPID! - Videokarma.org TV - Video

AiboPet · #1 06-24-2012, 02:47 PM

I took apart an old RCA "Luna" clock/radio/TV unit about three months ago. Today, I managed to not only FIX the TV (it's modular), but ALSO got the little flip clock to free up AND stay on time for at least a couple hours so far! (I'm REALLY stoked to finally HAVE a working flip clock!).

NOW...I'm PISSED...at MYSELF!

I always manage to KEEP all the little projects neatly in it's own little box...or at LEAST it's own place on a workspace. I somehow have LOST the little aerial that was on the back of this Luna.

I know it's not actually LOST, for this set has not really GONE anywhere.

I'm gonna post a 3D image of my WHOLE apartment...and one of you can just IM me when you find this antenna for me :-P

Oh....it's silver, and about a foot long...GOOD LUCK LOL!!!

All just joking of course. I just feel STUPID and felt I wanted to vent. I may have the antenna SITTING somewhere with an alligator clip on it using it on some OTHER project (stupid idea). Just can't figure out WHERE yet.

***Eric H*** · #2 06-24-2012, 05:02 PM

I've wanted one of those RCA's since I saw one torn apart in my Electronics Shop class back around 1975, it would have been practically new then!

I don't understand the Flip Clock craze, I know the Back to the Future Flip Clock sells for big bucks but the rest?

I hated those things back in the day, I was so glad when LED clocks became affordable (got mine from the "Junk" table at Radio Shack).

The constant hum and the creak,creak, creak, CLICK, creak, creak, creak, CLICK, creak, creak, creak, CLICK, of the flippers would keep me awake at night.

AiboPet · #3 06-24-2012, 05:11 PM

Okay....cancel the milk carton pictures

FOUND the stupid thing....in a toolbox of course. RIGHT where it DOESN'T belong (of course). Thanks to all those that joined in the search. There will be hot coffee and donuts when you get back to base camp :P

Pic of RCA Lunar (Not "Luna" as I thought)...model # AS 059Y...from 1974. of course I can't get away without mentioning that the Sony S8-301W sitting on top of it, is running pretty good after it's recap. The Sony is still a bit fussy though. It may still be in need of some attention, but I'm happy with it for now. I no longer have to wait ten minutes to get a REAL fussy picture. I can now get a SOMEWHAT fussy picture after about a minute.

The RCA's little flip clock IS still keeping time, so I guess the secret to these is CLEANING them...and NOT putting any oil or anything in them. They appear to work JUST fine if just simply cleaned well, unless of course it's broken (which this one wasn't.....just the motor was "frozen")

stromberg6 · #4 06-24-2012, 05:17 PM

Hey, Happy you found it!

I'm guilty of misplacing parts, but have become much better at not doing so in my old age lol. Neat TV combo!

Kevin

AiboPet · #5 06-24-2012, 05:31 PM

I'm only bad about misplacing parts if I get into a set and DON'T work through it 'till it's done. Learned to start keeping empty boxes, bins and pill bottles around just for setting aside projects if I need to.

I do find I have to start and FINISH a project within a week or so, or I'll start forgetting where I took screws out so they go BACK. I really should document more.

This RCA clock/radio sat around some because I wanted to TALK to a couple clock people about how best to get the little flip clock working again. BOTH my clock friends (one of them nearly a hundred years old) said to deffinately NOT go "lubricating" anything. He said that is almost how ALL clocks are ruined. MOST clocks only need cleaning....ever.

bgadow · #6 06-24-2012, 10:50 PM

I have one of these but there is a tiny plastic gear which has gone bad; it basically falls apart if you do anything with it. I was hoping it would be listed in the RCA service manual but I dug it out recently and no go. Guess I'll have to try and make one someday. I've had a few flip clocks but never one that was what I would call reliable.

AiboPet · #7 06-25-2012, 06:46 AM

LOL Eric!

I did notice that about the flip clock. I do have it in the FRONT ROOM though for THAT reason. Sounds like a little tiny hamster wheel that NEVER stops and then the little "click" of the numbers. I don't at all hear it in the front room. I just wanted to have one, and when I saw this wherever I saw it (probly the swap meet), I just HAD to have it. It then SAT in my closet for like four or five years before I opened THAT closet and realized I had sets in there. (I had a few sets LONG before I recognized I had a collection).

Sandy G · #8 06-25-2012, 10:45 AM

Been there, done that on "Losing" parts...An' I dunno what's worse-Havin' a thick rug where tee-ninecy screws, springs, oddments fall into, NEVER to be seen again, or a hardwood floor, where they Bounce...Bounce..Bounce into the same oblivion....Gettin' older, havin' Island-Sized Paws FULL of Good Ol' Uncle Arthur, & failing eyesight don't help matters much...MAYBE when I die, I MIGHT be permitted to go to that Majickal Land where Shit Goes To when it Gets lost...It simply HAS to be in another dimension....(grin)

AiboPet · #9 06-25-2012, 01:15 PM

Whoever gets there first....will agree to put the whole LOT of this stuff...on ebay, with a good "buy-it-now" price :-P

mercury6768 · #10 06-25-2012, 03:14 PM

Glad you found your antenna. What a great little solid state TV combo.

YamahaFreak · #11 06-25-2012, 08:49 PM

Sandy, the WORST is when you accidentally unload the stored kinetic energy of a tiny compressed spring...it goes flying, and it's too tiny to make much noise when it hits something...it's anyone's guess where the hell it ended up, and there's a 99.9% chance you'll never see it again.

Ahh, fun times...

Sandy G · #12 06-25-2012, 08:58 PM

Naw, the WORST is when you FIND said spring in the fleshy part of yr Foot...at 3AM on a Going-to-the-Can trek...

old_tv_nut · #13 06-25-2012, 09:14 PM

I had one of those "cannibal" rug experiences with a jigsaw puzzle piece. A oriental-pattern rug, friends over to put together a world'sfair puzzle while a world's fair travelog plays on the vintage TV. A year later, after fruitless search and many passes with the vacuum cleaner, I dropped a book flat on the rug and saw something jump out of the corner of my eye - there it was!

It's gremlins, I tell ya!

YamahaFreak · #14 06-25-2012, 09:24 PM

Oh yes, we've all been there before. I'm going to start finding a LOT of things I've not seen in years when I start cleaning up the back room soon...

Sandy G · #15 06-25-2012, 09:32 PM

Think I opined Over Yonder that when I Shuffle Off this Mortal Coil, I HOPE I'm allowed to go for a brief visit to that Majickal Place where Stuff Goes When its Lost...I'm sure it must be in some alternative universe/another dimension... And the inhabitants are, of course, all FRENCH, & are taunting & dropping Shit on us like they did in "Monty Python & The Holy Grail"...That would about be Par for the Course...