[Steveromo]

I have a cute wall clock that plays music and has characters "dance" for about 15 seconds on the hour. The time-clock works on 1 AA battery and the music- animation works on 4 AA's. Well, the clock stopped showing accurate time. The second hand just stops in place and doesn't advance. Tried multiple batteries, no success. So I am trying to fix it. I purchased a standard wall clock and replaced the time-telling part just fine. I'd love to get it to animate! The animation worked by having 2 blue wires running to/from the gear housing. Inside the gear housing they connected to a copper pin attached to one of the gears. I assume it makes some kind of contact as it passes each hour. If I could replicate this in the NEW gear housing I might be back in business. But I don't know how since the gear housings are slightly different. Anyone ever do such a repair? Any suggestions, links, info you can pass along? Thanks!!

 

[joed]

Are the hands metal? Maybe you make your own set of contact by poking two tiny wires out of the 12 that the minute hand will hit as it passes the 12.

If not metal hands then a piece of aluminum foil glued to the back of the minute hand should do it.

 

[dmxtothemax]

Have you tried using a magnet and a reed switch ?