O.T. somewhat Old Chime /Clock Door Bell Repair

Can you scrape off the carbonized material and just coat what remains with clear nail polish?

A filler needs to be used and then re-solder the four contact points.

Chris

What is a door chime clock?

Plastic wood? It's not white but it might be more like the wood that is there?

It is a door bell A nutone k46. They have not made them since the mid 90's and you can no longer get parts. They were the rage back in the mid '50s when they came out.

Chris

I don't think I ever saw one but I'd love to get just a plain door chime with 4 or 5 chimes and they ring a short song. Well I love to get one if it were cheap anyway.

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how cheap? this one's only $50- and it is programmable, but has >100 songs in it already.

I haven't seen them but I've heard them, live, going back 40 years, that play, dum, dum, doom, dum; doom, dum, dum, doom. (I'm not sure my representation is very good. I'm tone deaf so I can't give you notes from a scale.) That's at the front door. AT the back door they just play the first four sounds.

These are real chimes, not electronic sounds. There are between 2 and

I think it could get annoying if you have a lot of visitors, that it has to play 8 notes every time.

you mean Westminster chimes?

nate

I've only been to Westminster, Maryland, so I'm not sure.

Listening to the midi file here at least some of them were that, and the midi file reminds me that that sequence is 16 tone. No wonder I found it annoying, and I was just visiting the house.

It seems to me the page wasn't written entriely by a native English speaker. At least not American English. It says in part:

The permutationen are:

1. g4, f?4, e4, b3 2. e4, g?4, f?4, b3 3. e4, f?4, g?4, e4 4. g4, e4, f?4, b3 5. b3, f?4, g?4, e4

played as three crotchets and a dotted minim. A different sequence of these permutations is played at each quarter-hour: one set at the first quarter, two sets at the half, and so forth, as follows:

No thanks, I want real chimes. The long metal tube type.

Hi, Mine has 5 tubes and it is played by motor driven rotating plunger/hammer. 3 tunes, front, back, side door. My only problem has been plunger spring sticking. I had it more than 30 years and always took it when moving.

Or glue a strip of teflon.(good insulaion)

those are expensive, if you haven't already figured it out (I've been keeping an eye out on eBay for a cheap one, but they always seem to go for $150 or more.)

nate

Cool. I've worked on regular door bells (chimes) with the solenoid and plunger that hits the chime. In a way are a lot like solenoids in pinball machines (I fixed them for close to 30 years). Anyway, if you take apart the sticky unit and clean it well, don't give it _any_ lubrication and it should work for a long time. If the solenoid has an aluminum sleeve, well they just suck. If it's brass it's a lot better, and if it's nylon it's better yet.

I've worked on similar units in pinball machines and I *think* I can picture exactly what you have. After removing all the carbonized areas, I've used epoxy or bondo, put tape on the back and fill in the void. I've fixed some that were so bad that after epoxy, I had to drill out and install the old, or new brass rivets that make contact with the wiper fingers. Then of course the wires have to be soldered back onto the rivets.

Never ever ever ever use contact cleaner on it. For some reason it will cause the carbon arc to form. I've seen it literally 100's of times. Clean it with light oil on a cloth and leave some oil on it or give it a light coat of lubriplate (actually almost any light grease will do) Just stay away from the contact cleaner. If grease on electrical contacts doesn't sound quite right, well it didn't sound right to me either 30 years ago when I first saw it. It works great reducing friction wear and also helps keep the contacts from pitting.

Note: this is only for contacts with wiper fingers, relay type contacts get filed clean and they never get grease/oil and again never use contact cleaner. I honestly don't know what contact cleaner is good for?