Oh Lordy, I now own a Fordy (a Lincoln actually)..

[njsteve]

And I was playing with the spare clock I bought on ebay 4 years ago. I started looking on youtube for repair tips and it turns out the best tip is to use brake clean and spray away all the solidified factory oil on the pivot points. I did that and used my old points file and cleaned the two contact points. I then used a tiny needle applicator and applied gun oil to the pivot points very sparingly. I set it up on a battery and then set a stop watch. It runs beautifully. It was a consistent 55.7 seconds between the audible click when the points would contact and snap apart, thereby winding the mainspring for another minute. It got kind of addictive after a while: 55.79, 55.72, 55.75 seconds... for 25 minutes straight. It wound up being more of test of my thumb reaction time on the lap counter at that point. I left it overnight hooked to the battery and this morning it s right on time (actually a little under a 1 minute fast as compared to my Iphone). And the battery was still registering the same 12.7 volts as the day before, so there isn't much of a power drain after all with these factory electric clocks.