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   Knotscott | Mar 26, 2006 01:52pm | #1

   Clockparts.com offers quartz movements with mechanical chimes that are very reasonable. Which one sounds best to you is your opinion, but I liked the single "ding" of the mechanical bell far better than Big Ben being played through a distorted 12 cent speaker.

   We have a store bought wall clock that reproduces such incredibly poor sound, that I literally taped paper towel over the speaker to dampen the distortion, and inverted the back panel so the sound opening was 12" from the speaker...it helped but it still sounds best with no battery! ;-)

   http://cart.clockparts.com/index.php?cPath=180_21_39

   
   

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   Edited 3/26/2006 10:15 am ET by scotty

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   SteveSchoene | Mar 26, 2006 02:16pm | #2

   Bells are fairly difficult to reproduce through speakers.  So I agree that a mechanical bell would likely be much nicer. 

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   EricAnderson | Mar 26, 2006 02:54pm | #3

   Klockit has some pretty nice sounding electronic clocks, and they have some examples that you can play back. (Click on the red notes)

   http://www.klockit.com/products/dept-158__sku-BBBSS.html

   I wish all of the suppliers had the ability to play back the sounds like this example.

   I can't find the dial that I want, however, and I would like to see some competing examples.  Klockit seems to have the best selection from what I can see, but I guess I expected more of a selection of dials from these companies.  This seems like the extent of round dials in the 4 to 7 inch diameter:

   http://www.klockit.com/products/dept-139__sku-AAAMM.html

   Someone must sell these dials:

   http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/eganders/clockfaces_0001.jpg

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   EricAnderson | Mar 28, 2006 02:42pm | #4

   Thanks for the link to Clockparts.  They have the face I was looking for.  I may be making the wrong choice, but I probably will go for the Westminster electronic.  I will probably try some things with a speaker change if necessary or modifying the housing around the speaker.  Sounds like a challenge.  Right now I am going to start by cutting out the frame.  Seems easy, but even that has some choices on ways to create the half round on the top of the bezel.

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/eganders/octagonclocksketch3.gif