Dime-Awake Coin-op Alarm Clock

[tkaz]

I came across this in a local antique shop today, pretty neat little coin-op, found some info on it through a Google Books search in Popular Mechanics.

[MoonDawg]

    I think that is neat!

[Seven181]

Pretty cool!

[rayg]

Cool, Up there with the coin-op magic fingers!

[BrianS]

I really like that clock.  I think I would be going back to the shop to keep an eye on that one.

[davethebirdman]

$175.00 is a good price for that clock (providing they work) . I have been watching them on eBay for a long time now and like everything they have been going up in price.

[tkaz]

One concern I have is that there is no key with it, how hard are these lock style to pick/rekey?

[kbareit]

That's pretty neat. I doubt I would have used it back in the day, who wants to pay to be woke up?

[cohammer]

Go back and make an offer , how many more have you seen

[tkaz]

On one shoulder, I have a nice money savings conscience...on the other is the SMC forums! 

So I went back today to see if the clock had the key, and sure enough it was in the locked case next to it.  I tested it out with a dime and the alarm came on when the clock hit the right time, had to buy it at that point!

Pretty neat little item, very simple device to accept the dime, it simply moves aside a small lever that allows the plunger to pull up and set the alarm.  Nothing there to reject slugs, not that people were looking to trick a $.10 item to wake them up in the morning.

I'll see if I can get a video of it working.  The clock face has a small amount of grime on the inside around 8 o'clock, but it should just pull off so I can clean it.