[Chrysler300] To Kill A Battery

[Rich Barber <barber@xxxxxxxxx>]

I must agree with John.  I bought an inoperable 6V clock on eBay for my 
1955 C-300 and then bought a lantern battery to power it as I nursed it 
back to health.  I lubed the clock using a grandfather clock oiler kit 
that has a long hollow needle attached to a clear squeezable tube of 
clock oil.  The points were like new and worked perfectly from the start 
and I quickly got the clock going, but I couldn't get it to run quite 
fast enough using the manual adjustment on this clock.  I let it run a 
couple of weeks, then relubed everything that looked like a bearing or 
relative motion point.  I must have got the last zerk as it then started 
running too fast and was easily regulated.  I monitored the battery 
voltage with a digital meter and it never dropped even 0.01 volt in 
several weeks use.

Some car and boat batteries can discharge when totally removed from the 
car or boat during a long period of non-use.  Others hold up quite 
well.  I think a battery in pretty good shape with a full charge has a 
better chance of staying alive without being recharged, but I also feel 
it is worthwhile bringing any battery to a place where they can be 
monitored and trickle charged or recharged occasionally during periods 
of non-use.  Discharged lead-acid batteries can sulfate off and never 
perform properly again.  Why buy a new battery every year?

The clock I bought is stamped "THE NEW HAVEN CLOCK AND WATCH CO.  
U.S.A."  We don't see that last part on cars much any more.  The clock 
is also nicely date-stamped "APR 8, 1955", nearly a month after  my car 
was born.  There is a slot on the IBM build card for my car to indicate 
if it was originally equipped with "ELEC. CLOCK".  It was not.  But it's 
gonna be!  I like that old tic-tic-tic, kchunk--it reminds me of 50's 
music like Shhh-Boom (1955).

By the way, has anyone found a source of dayglo orange paint to touch up 
the faded hands of a 1955 clock?

Thanks and MoPa'r to ya from

Rich Barber
Brentwood, CA
C-300  (Got the Remington L78's mounted and balanced on wire wheels 
today--wheels and tires also non factory issue for this car, but wheels 
were a dealer-installed option.  The Goodyear guy gets glazed eyeballs 
when I ask about 8.00:15 Bluestreaks with 3" WSW.  One tire took 10.5 
ounces to balance, others took 3-5 ounces.  All mounted on inside rim 
for esthetics.  The tire guy that did the job is a big MoPar fan and 
gave me a real break on labor and new tubes.  Had to wrap the repro 
hubcaps with weatherstrip to avoid rattling.  Bornstein's caps look 
great, but the attaching springs are mislocated by about 1/8".  This car 
really draws car guys young and old and I love to show it and tell about 
it.)



John Hertog wrote:

>Hi Terry,
>
>I beg to differ.  I always leave the battery connected in my 300G rag over
>the winter; probably because I am too lazy to disconnect it. After 3,4, or 5
>months of sitting, the battery is still good, the clock is still going
>"Tchunk - tic - tic - tic " , and, since the "G" has an electric fuel pump,
>it starts right up even after a long period of time . I also believe (maybe
>wrongly) that keeping the clock running may help to preserve its mechanical
>integrity. It can't draw much power, the clock...
>
>Of course, one could easily hook up a trickle charger to the car, even with
>battery disconnected, and that would be enough to keep the clock operating
>thru the long (ugh) winter months.
>
>Buy you a beer in Maine...
>
>John Hertog
>Sag Harbor NY
>
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>----- Original Message ----- 
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>To: <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:05 PM
>Subject: [Chrysler300] Clocks
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>Interesting reading on the clocks in our Brutes.  One comment:   for those
>of
>us who use our cars primarily for intertainment, and may have them  set for
>two or three weeks at a time without starting, the constant winding of  the
>clock can run down the battery.  I think that the quartz clock  mechanisms
>use so
>little current that that should never be a problem.   Terry McTaggart, some
>seven days before heading off to  Maine.
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