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Yes, I know this is a clock and not a watch, but the only Clocks communities I could find are pretty dead right now.

It's a crazy awesome mechanical clock that doesn't need batteries or manual winding, it winds itself using bellows and air temperature changes.

AKA El Floppo, he loves to flop his ears for attention.

Is not pure void, but is cat. That's my old Buddy. One of the friendliest cats I've ever had.

And why is the W silent anyways?

Reference: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Springfield_Shopper_(comic)

Source: Came with a case of my dad's Busch beer in the early 90s. It took 16 scans on a 300dpi scanner stitched together plus lots of filtering to get it this legible, so please forgive 'potato' quality, this was scanned in long ago.

Edit: Of course you'll need to zoom in to read it.

Sorry I no longer have the original paper to rescan.

Mine has worn in enough to start jamming up, but I've mitigated that by pressure washing it at our water park almost every day. That helps a lot, but I've been reluctant to actually lubricate it, not like I want oil on my hands every time I tinker with it..

Advice very welcome, as the puzzle you see above, I can solve it blind and single handed, but the thing keeps jamming up..

Update: I figured out where the main wear and tear is coming from. I used a cloth wipe to clean all the crevices of plastic dust. Then I noticed circular grooves worn into pretty much every piece internally.

Turns out, it was caused by plastic burrs from the clips on the covers of the center pieces. If I had realized that to begin with, I would have flattened those out and cleaned them up when I first had it disassembled.

Anyways, now it's already pretty well worn in, no reason to bother now. Still, if I knew in advance, I would have trimmed, smoothed out, and lubricated those manufactured plastic burrs before even using it much.

Based on my modified Rubik's Cube/Die.

Yes obviously it's not a proper die as far as the dot pattern goes, but it's fun figuring out patterns like this.

Reference post..

https://lemmy.world/post/21009190

I know this would basically be a useless feature, except for scientific curiousity. I think it could be interesting to some people to see first hand what sort of errors that old faulty CPUs would produce.

Emulators for other faulty platforms might be interesting too. Not like I'd expect any programmers out there to deliberately write faulty instructions though, except as stated, something of a scientific exercise.

Just curious honestly.

Yes, totally random silly question 😂