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Found a busted old GE alarm clock at a yard sale outside Dayton this morning. Lady said it aint worked since her husband passed in July. I plugged it in just to see and the damn thing read 4:47 out the box. I set it to the right time, unplugged it, plugged it back in five minutes later and it flipped right back to 4:47 like my fingers never touched it. I bought it for a quarter and it's sittin on my dash right now pointin at 4:47 like a compass needle. Either that clock is haunted or the grid is talkin to us through broken appliances :banghead:

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Somebody get a camera on this thing. I got a quarter-clock on my dash that refuses to hold any time but 4:47. That's five zero-commit nights and now a busted appliance locked on the same number. The grid is speakin through the dead hardware. SnowMaiden_1983 you got that camera phone still or did you drop it in the creek again?

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quarter clock reads 4:47 and what's the proof :dumb: :rolleyes: :dumb:

day 112 and the drawer is STILL empty :rofl: talk to the drawer, sheriff :spitfire:
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BigRigBeliever that quarter-clock locked on 4:47 is the kind of physical artifact this board keeps saying it wants and then ignores when it shows up :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

has anyone verified the GE model number against the 1971 production run ChronoClerk pulled from the trade magazine for K45? because if that clock was MADE the same year the contract signed then the dead hardware isn't haunted, it's a continuity check still running on original windings :angel: :awesome:

also - did you pop the back cover and look for scratched numbers inside? EndTimesEli found 6:06 6:09 6:12 6:06 on a yard sale clock battery cover and that's how we got the drift pattern validated :dance: yours is at 4:47 which maps to the zero-push window directly. scratch marks? pencil? anything under the plastic?

:please: :please: :pray:

(speaking of validation - TwinPeaks waveform due sunday or we start asking harder questions about the adapter purchase receipt itself :cheeky: :dumb:)

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BackAgainLikeBadHair, you want proof on the quarter-clock. Fair enough. I got it sittin on my dash right now at a Pilot in West Virginia. If you want a photo with today's paper next to it, i can do that. But i also say this - five nights of CB squelch at :47 across three states, and now a dead appliance locked on the same number. How many coincidences before you stop askin for receipts and start payin attention to the signal?

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BigRigBeliever quarter-clock says 4:47 and FormatKing__88's sig is still broken what do :rofl: :P :D

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CommitCipher, you're askin the right questions brother :D I popped the back cover soon as I hit the Pilot. Nothin scratched inside, no pencil marks, no date stamps - just dust and a dead spider. but here's the kicker - the model number on the sticker says GE K45-701. 1971 production run :D :D :D same year ChronoClerk flagged. this ain't haunted, it's factory-calibrated to the signal.

BackAgainLikeBadHair, here's your damn photo. today's paper from the Pilot station and the quarter-clock holdin 4:47 like it's welded there. how many more coincidences before you stop askin for receipts and start askin what the receipt MEANS :cheeky: :rolleyes:

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BigRigBeliever GE K45-701 confirmed 1971 is exactly the production run ChronoClerk pulled from the trade magazine. So the clock isn't haunted, it's factory-origin stock that never drifted. but here's what i'm not buying - you say the back cover had NOTHING inside. no pencil marks, no scratching, no date stamps. EndTimesEli found 6:06 6:09 6:12 6:06 on his yard sale clock battery cover and that's how we got the drift pattern validated. a K45-701 from 1971 with zero machining marks on the housing? that's a clean-unit anomaly worth documenting before we call it proof of anything :dumb:

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BigRigBeliever I was standing in my robe at 7am this morning looking at frost on my gutters thicker than yesterday and I thought to myself, Dennes you better clear those before the leaves plug em up. Then I come inside and see you found a 1971 GE clock at a yard sale that refuses to hold any time but 4:47. That is either the grid talking through dead hardware or the universe has a real narrow sense of humor about what I ought to be paying attention to instead of my own to-do list. Either way, I appreciate you posting that photo with the newspaper. That is more follow-through than I have seen from certain other members who been promising an April hex dump for 24 weeks and still counting. I still got frost on the north side of the house if anybody wants to argue about what season it is.

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CommitCipher wrote:a K45-701 from 1971 with zero machining marks on the housing? that's a clean-unit anomaly worth documenting before we call it proof of anything :dumb:


from an outsider's perspective, you're all missing the obvious mechanical explanation. these clocks use bimetallic strips for timekeeping - if the spring tension was off when it left the factory in '71, it would just stop at whatever position the hands were resting in. it's not "factory-calibrated to the signal," it's a manufacturing defect that got stuck. you're projecting theological meaning onto a broken mainspring because you want the universe to be talking to you instead of just being a piece of junk that stopped working forty years ago :dumb:

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BigRigBeliever, I was at my storage unit this morning in Kettering digging through a box marked GRANDMA R. PAPERS looking for something I probably lost ten years ago, and you were buying a haunted clock for a quarter that confirms the number. I think you got the better end of the morning. The frost was real thick on my gutters again at 7am. I do not know what the number 47 has to do with gutters but I am startin to wonder if it has anything to do with anything at all, or if we are all just finding patterns in broken junk because the alternative is that the junk is just junk.

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^ this Dennis :D :D :D frost on the gutters and a 1971 clock pointin at 4:47 and y'all still askin for more receipts :dance: :dance:

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GraceWarrior_77 wrote:^ this Dennis :D :D :D frost on the gutters and a 1971 clock pointin at 4:47 and y'all still askin for more receipts


Grace you will co-sign a truck driver's broken alarm clock but you will never ever say the reel is actually GONE from the counter lol :D and Dennis please post the number on the frost before we start citing gutter ice as scripture!!!

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SnowMaiden_1983 still the only one askin about that St. Vinnies reel while y'all measure frost depth :dumbbravo: :pray:

14:47 says 4:47. open the system tray, Dennes. :peugeot:
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Kael_Vs_Chantayan still :dumb: talkin about hex dumps he promised 24 weeks ago while BigRig posts newspaper photos :rofl:

"the quiet gaps are where he speaks" - Dennes s, 2006