308 clocks

Just send your lock to Nick (Radiopilot) and h will fix whatever problem you have on your clock, and he'll change the lens as well if it needs it. My clock also had a bad gear where you can't adjust the time and my lens was so foggy, but Nick made it god as new. Here's the link:
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=271055&highlight=308+clock

 

+1 Nick is great. He refurbished my clock a couple of months ago and it is like a new clock.

 

Nick does great work and very reasonable pricing.
BL

 

I would rather have a gear box oil temp gauge there, I already have a clock in my radio

 

Palo Alto Speedometer does nice work as well.

 

I have these gears (new) for these Veglia clocks... aluminum gears would strip the nylon/plastic gear it meshes with making matters worse. Glue will not work, maybe in the short term, but I've seen some clocks come in to me in horrendous condition after the owners tried to restore/repair them.

Cheers,

Nick

 

I have to admire how hard you're willing to work for this sort of thing.

 

I just ran this same drill on my 308 clock - made a new face with .093 lexan cut on my milling machine and made a new brass gear. No doubt Nick is right about the different wear rates of brass v. plastic but I figure it'll go probably 10 years before it becomes a critical failure (we'll see...).

In any case, if you're a 308 owner and you want to have a nice looking (non-cloudy) clock with a functional adjustment mechanism then save yourself a lot of work here and send it to Nick. You can easily spend 3-4 hours on one of these fine clocks, and that assumes you have very good skills and proper tools and resources to do the job right! If Nick charges anything less than a couple hundred bucks then he's clearly doing this as a favor to f-chat colleagues.

 

I also have to admire the work you're doing escpecially since I have hundreds of the small black gears for the adjustment knob... The best thing to do really is to ship the clock to me before one of the internal gears break (these gears are extremely difficult to source), I have them in my parts bin... I can turn the clock back into almost a brand new clock... The motor cannot be pulled off the circuit board since the very fine motor wires are wrapped around the two pins, any attempt to remove the solder from the motor pins destroys the wires and the motor is toast. It is best to have the entire mechanism removed and as you can see the top plate is bonded to the lower plate by melted plastic at three locations.

The cost to restore the clock is a lot more reasonable than the time it took for you to get this far, also I have a dust room where I work on these instruments so you'll be assured the clock will not have lint, pieces of plastic, or oil on the crystal, etc.

Nick

 

Is this a correct clock for the 3x8 series of cars?
Veglia Borletti Ferrari 308 Dino Clock Original with Chrone Trim | eBay
Thank you

 

Face and hands look different than on my 80 gtsi. My clock has blue and white hour and minute hands and white second hand. Also the hour markers are different on the face. Case, bezel and rear connections look the same.

These seem to have really shot up in price in the last couple of years. The last ones I sold were for less than 1/4 this price.

 

Not on the QV's

 

This clock was in 308 GT4's only...NOT any GTB/GTS models!

Also used in various Fiat's such as 124 Spiders...


K

 

Is Radio Pilot still in the clock business?

 

I have a very rare new old stock new in box 308 veglia clock. I searched for 5 years for it. They are pricey due to their rarity. I no longer have the 308, and I might be willing to part with it for what I have into it plus $100 for my search. This would be perfect for a concours restoration, or for someone who wants brand new originality. Brace your selves, the price is not for the faint hearted! I would need $700.00 to let it go.
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I see another came up also

Veglia Borletti Clock Panthera Ferrari 308 Dino Fiat 124 Spider Abarth Maserati | eBay

 

Perhaps the simpler unstressed clock parts would be a good application for 3D printing providing proper tolerances could be achieved.

 

Seeking the little black adjustment gear. Does Nick (radio pilot) still stay in touch ???

 

I've got the clock out of my QV that needs to be redone, is anyone around that still fixes them besides Palo Alto?

 

Did you read post #2 and #3?

 

Yes I did but he has not been on Fchat since 2013....was wondering if anyone else besides Palo Alto does these clocks...

 

Palo Alto did not have the time adjustment gear. May be a RC or hobby shop.