18 hours ago, socorob said:

The working clock that loses time capacitor starts off at 0, then takes a minute or 2 and only climbs to .8uF, then goes up and down from .8 to .6, so maybe the new capacitor will fix this one. I cleaned all the gears, resoldered all the connections and replaced the cap so maybe I'll get lucky.

Yeah, that cap certainly doesn't sound healthy. Hope that the new replacement fixes it!

Its been about 4 days and it still keeps time, so I guess it was the bad cap on the working one that didn't keep time.

Fingers crossed! So the old dead cap either went open circuit, or shorted internally. That style of cap (known as an aluminum electrolytic) has been known to go either way. If it went short, the clock wouldn't run at all. If it went totally open, the clock might work, or might not. Sounds like yours did just that.

Hope you're good from here! Too bad about the other clock though. Probably nothing can be done with that one unless you find NOS of the xtal and/or the control chip.

Socorob,

Your looking way to deep for the problem. 99% of the time it's a mechanical .Email me , ron@zclocks.com

I had mentioned in an earlier post to seek out @zclocks. He has been a consistent contributor to the forum and welcome to questions and advice.

I'm pretty sure this one was electrical. I put the circuit boards from the working clock onto the gears and face of the one that wasn't working, because they looked a little nicer, and the clock has been working since. I suspect its either the crystal or that part that the gear with the magnet? goes in that makes it turn, because it wouldn't turn with all the other gears detached from it.