When I first started "researching" about this clock and the company, I repeated the first thing that I came upon - that the company was founded by Irving and Max Schulman - Jewish brother who were refugees from World War II that came to this country and set up the Cuckoo Clock Manufacturing Company in New York City.Īnd while that sounds good, it's evidently incorrect - by a long shot, really. So now this little piece of flip clock history has joined the other early flip clocks in FlipClockFans studios.This is my story about this clock - the Linden Model 969 from the Linden division of the Cuckoo Clock Manufacturing Company.īut it's also my feelings (rant?) about how much of clock history, and just the history of people in general is simply lost to time. Halogen lights are known to have significantly more UV light in their spectrum. ![]() When I switched over the halogen shop light, I noticed a significant increase in the speed of the process. ![]() They are broad spectrum and actually do have some light in the UV spectrum. In the case of this MiniMod Clock, I started the reaction by using two household LED bulbs. While I used to question the need for UV light, my experience tends to support the use of UV light. It is asserted by many that the action of the hydrogen peroxide is enhanced by UV light (the cause becomes part of the solution). When hydrogen peroxide reacts with these molecules, the bromine oxides are converted to hydrogen bromide which is colorless. Oxides of bromine have a yellow to yellow-orange color and these products remain bound within the matrix of the outer surface of the plastic, giving us the aged, yellow look. This reaction liberates bromine allowing it to bond to oxygen. UV light reacts with what are called brominated (bromine containing) flame retardants that have been added to plastics. What causes plastics to yellow in the first place? No more than 72 hours after starting, the yellowing disappeared. Later, I moved the operation to my garage and finished the process with a halogen shop lamp. In any event, after coating the surfaces of the yellowed plastic generously in the hydrogen peroxide containing gel, I covered the bowl with plastic wrap (to decrease evaporation) and irradiated it with bulbs on my desk. The 40 probably would work just as good, I'm sure. I have to confess that I have access to a licensed professional who supplied me with my stuff. Typically only licensed hair care professionals can get a strength up to 50 (us lowly consumers can only purchase 40 volume). But FlipClockFans rule number two of FlipClockery states: Use the simplest and cheapest method! All you'll need is some light, and a bottle of the stuff people use to bleach their hair (hydrogen peroxide containing creme developer).Īfter disassembly, the Caslon flip clock was placed in a bowl then coated in Salon Care 50 Volume Creme Developer. In this Google driven world of free information you'll find several alternatives for de-yellowing plastic. Before this, people had assumed that the plastic had become permanently yellowed due to age. But "De-yellowing" plastic has been around at least since 2009 (this being performed by collectors of vintage computers among other things). Whitening flip clocks was not commonly discussed until about 2013. Turning a plastic banana clock back to it's former glory. Unfortunately, this particular formerly "frosty white" flip clock had become very, very yellowed over the approximately 45 years of it's existence. It seems somewhat quirky, not really representative of typical fonts of the period, and not really easy to read. The front of the clock face is real glass and the font face of the white on black digits is compressed, but with thick lines kind of angular and otherwise without much flair. It sits high enough up on this stand that you could wrap the cord around it (I saw that on eBay once. It's an unusually small flip clock with unusual styling, the retangular clock face cradled by a semi-oval shaped case resting on a base that looks like a trophy stand. This is close enough to the actual measures, but the clock's shape does not lend itself to being easily measured. ![]() The clock's advertised dimensions are 5 1/4 inches wide, 3 3/4 inches tall and 3 1/4 inches deep. The Caslon MiniMod has no other features besides the flip clock. First seen in advertising Novemthe Calson MiniMod was priced from $7.88 to $11.99 ( equivalent to $46.29 to $70.43 in 2017 dollars).
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