In this video I show how to change a stock ticking clock mechanism with a silent running one on ebay. They can be ordered online for a dollar or two and make a night and day difference on how a clock sounds.
You have no idea how helpful this was. My mom gifted me a clock for my very first apartment and I didn't have the heart to throw it away or give it away. This was the perfect fix because ticking makes me anxious!!! Thaaaanks
I have a bunch of clocks here in my bedroom as we speak and they all talk. They all are different in their way. I have 3 analogue clocks. One Classico and 2 radio controlled. I have the classic one ticking right now. Their is just something about hearing the tick of that analogue clock in the night. I usually would wake up with my iPhone but I decided to go back to old school and wake up with one of the clocks. It is cool actually going back using the real thing. I wake up with one of the clock radios. One of my digital alarm clocks is sitting in front of me now. It is very quiet but in the morning it is loud. The classic analogue clock though has an alarm which is super simple. It just beeps really loud. It is not a buzzer one. It just does 4 beeps in a row. I got inspired to use an alarm clock again after using my iPhone for so many years. I put a battery back in the analogue clock and it is ticking now. All the clocks in my bedroom are different types but they all talk.
This is the best video ever - thank you! For those of you that are curious like me on how to find this stuff on ebay, I figured out that you just type in "silent clock mechanism" and you can add "with hook" if needed. I'm ordering mine today and this will be my new project for my hubby! Thanks for saving the day! I cannot stand ticking clocks and thought I was going to have to sell a cute clock I bought because I could not use it (I REFUSE to listen to a ticking clock even if it's not that loud - it drives me crazy!!!)
This really helped me. I did it. Thank you so much for this video. The only thing is that at 2:24, instead of just popping the back box off, I first used small pliers to unscrew the nut on the front of the clock that held the back box on. Then the back box came off without any prying.
I don’t know why, but I love the sounds of ticking clocks. I have a whole slew of clocks and they talk. I have from analogue to digital. The digital clocks are quiet of course, but I love the sound of my 3 analogue clocks because it shows they are working. Nothing better to hear at night a ticking clock.... I wake up with one of my alarm clocks one digital one with a radio. I have been waking up with my iPhone but it is so nostalgic to wake up with the actual thing. It really makes me appreciate the clock. During the day it is hard to hear the clock in my bedroom,, but during the night the ticking really comes out and I love it. Especially in the winter. The rain and a ticking clock is something comforting....
Red Barn Homestead do you have a cuckoo clock as well? I don’t have one here in the house but I do have some pretty loud clocks and like I stated they all talk 3 of them tick. I have 2 analogue radio controlled ones that tick but the batteries are out of them now and then I have a regular analogue talking clock that is actually ticking as we speak. The hourly announcement is very simple and it doesn’t have a do not disturb time like the other clocks. That will shut off at 10 P.M. this one if I let it it will report the hour all night. I really do find it amazing how at night the clock sounds louder in its ticking than during the day because everything is so still. That is the time I love to hear the clock ticking. I have been using my iPhone to wake me up for the longest time and then I got the hunch the other day to put a battery back into the analogue clock and hear it ticking once again.
One clock in my room has this mechanism and honestly I don’t mind the ticking and it actually helps me sleep at night. But this is so cool. I like this video and will recommend to my friend.
This is very helpful, I didn't know that it's that easy. I have a beautiful clock but it's getting on my nerves! in winter when it's quiet. Thank you very much!
I’m glad it answered your questions. Not sure I mentioned in the video, these mechanisms tend to go a year on one AA battery instead of the usual 2 or 3 years.
Oh, my goodness! I have been wondering if such an animal existed. Thank you so much. I have some cute clocks that I didn't want to get rid of, but wasn't using because of the clicks.
In my case and it worked for me, and I don’t see why it won't work for most battery-powered wall clocks. If the ticking annoys you, an easy way to stop the ticking is to remove the second hand if you don’t need it. It’s easy. Just remove the clock front, pull the second hand off and replace the clock front. Done.
It’s not that easy, while it does remove some gear noise, the tick is still there. I have clocks with no second hand that still tick, the only way to fix it is to replace it with a non-ticking mechanism.
Those sweep hands use a lot more juice than the old kind. Expect to change the battery every six months. They don't tick but after a year or so they have a constant whirrrr noise from wear.
Bro mine started making weird noises after about of week of use. (It was a quartz wall clock) It came with a Chinese brand battery so i'll change it out (maybe the battery is bad?) But i'm worried i have to change out the core like in the video, but it's worth it.
Would need to test it ion several units. I have found that some movements consume more then others. I wasn’t aware of this when I started, so I’m not sure if I got a bad batch or if it is a systematic thing that is common to all.
Amazing...I just did a search to convert my clock, because it matches my decor perfectly. What are the chances that its the exact same clock as the video. Thanks for this info.
I've never been a guy who likes quartz clocks very much. I'm too much of an old clock collector to like them. What fascinated me about this was the fact that the smooth "gliding" of the second hand is very reminiscent of the 1950's, 40's, 30's and 20's electric clocks. If I had to choose, I would much rather have a quartz clock that has the "gliding" second hand rather than that cheap "tick" most quartz clocks have. Having the clock make no sound and not make that jumping forward action makes the clock have a higher quality feeling. Great video, thanks for posting.
Technically, I believe the 'gliding' hand clocks do jump but the distance is so short, it seems as if it is gliding. The shorter distance is what makes it silent.
Hello, I have the same hobby my friend. I understand this is called a silent movement or a sweep hand movement but I've seen some movement for sale that are called "with inside tick" and I don't know what it is?
Pretty helpful. But when you get to a house that has already one. Say you need it and can't take it out. An extra solution with regular skill is open it and extract the seconds needle by pulling it with force ( it can be put back if nec), it will decrease the noise 3/4 or 4/5 ths which is a looot and will give you a fast 80% solution.
I was just thinking about removing the seconds needle to try to decrease the ticking sound of my wall clock. I was not certain it would help. Then I found this Red Barn Homestead `s helpful video and then your helpful comment. Thank you all very much indeed.
@@Queteimp Thank you very much for your great comment. I am going to remove the seconds needle first. If the noise reduction is not sufficient, I am going to try to remove the last gear.
Dang..... Not gonna lie, its absolutely a viable solution. Personally I was hoping for a way of quieting an incremental movement (My personal preference is for a movement that moves the seconds hand on the half second, so two 'ticks' per second) perhaps by tightening up some tolerances or something. Oh well.... In this day and age of a slightly different face over effectively the same mass produced device (not just clocks, about 90% of all the things have a little 8, 12, or 16 pin microcontroller in them with the part number lasered off (they're most likely an atmel clone)) this is a shining example of 'just find something that does what you want and see if its bits can fit in those bits...' kind of engineering! Of course, thats part of why they laser the part number off the MCUs....so you cant repurpose their 3 cent controllers.....
Do you know how to make a non ticking lock into a ticking one? They make me feel relaxed. No an app isn’t the same either, it must be a clock. Having trouble finding loud ticking clocks these days.
I did this, the gears move and it is much quieter, but now the arms don’t move. I have taken them off and put them back on a few times. They move when I move the manual dial used to set the time. I can hear the tick, tick,…. How do I fix it so the arms move again?
Well, check to see if they are moving at all or are the arms hanging them up, you can do that with a marker. The fact you can set the time but it doesn’t keep time sounds like your unit was defective. You can also take it out of the clock and see if it will work alone, which it should.
@@RedBarnHomestead thanks. I tried the marker and took it apart again. I think all the wheels are so flimsy and weak that it will be impossible to get all the wheels to move each other again. It does tick but the part that moves the arms no longer moves. Are all wheel so thin and flimsy?
Amazon. Type in 'sweep hand battery clock kit'. Be sure to get the correct length on the shaft, which will probably require you to remove the old one first.
There might be a dragging issue with the hands or the mechanism? I have found a smooth motion clock uses about 1 battery every 1.5 years instead of 2 to 3 years on a pulse quartz.
oh my god I haven't had a clock since I moved out in 2016 because EVERYTHING TICKS. I had no idea it was so easy to fix... I've thrown out various clocks I purchased because they tick lol
I waited 2 months for them to arrive, and now I can officially say that these things are so bad. Obviously they make less noise compared to traditional mechanisms, but they do make noise anyway. It's impossible to sleep in a room with one these things on: it's like constantly hearing somebody gently scraping their nails on a blackboard. I do not recommend this if you intend to place the clock in a bedroom.
@@RedBarnHomestead I bought 8 of them in total, just to be sure since they were cheap: 4 from ebay and 4 from Amazon, both shipping from China. Technically they are "silent" mechanisms, cause they don't tick and they keep turning the hands in a continuous way without stopping every second. But I can assure you, they do make sound nonetheless. My idea was to place 4 clocks with 4 different timezones in my room: it feels like being in the middle of an airport. I just checked: Quartz silent mechanism is what I bought. Do you have a link for one that makes zero sound?
@@pupupuskassa I wasn't being mean - just light-hearted! 🙂 I actually knew someone who couldn't sleep with the sound of a ticking Watch! He used to have to take it off at night and put it in another room completely! It can be really annoying.
@@RedBarnHomestead Yeah... wooosh. I guess i was hoping to see how to manipulate the current clockwork into something else - not buying an entire new one. O welp
@@robinadahl7841 If you cut off the second hand, noise will be greatly reduced, but there will still be a teeny, tiny bit left. Depends on how sensitive your ears are.
