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I'm in my late fifties and I remember the Timex manufacturing plant along interstate 40 in Memphis during one of our many cross country moves as a kid. Argh! My husband who is a mechanical engineer, told me it was probably poor shielding due to cheap components. I usually listen to the sleep feature of clock radios at very low, and the hum was even more noticeable when I turned the volume all the way down. Cheap depress buttons! Then, found my favorite FM station and noticed a hum. I finally depressed it super hard and the radio came on. Then, tried it for what I originally bought it for, the radio. I replaced the coin cell and my my, it must have taken 10 minutes just to hold and depress the forward button to get the year from '99 to 2021! Finally, got it all set.
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Brought it home and found out it takes a coin cell battery to keep the factory time settings when shipped, and three AA batteries for the alarm for if the power goes out. For instance, I was at the charity thrift store the other day and bought a Timex t236b clock radio for ten bucks.
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I enjoy the flip clocks firstly because of the gentle "swoosh" sound they make when they change or flip time. My first flip clock was back in 1979, when my mom gave me the one sheh had been using. I was looking up "flip clock noise" in duckduckgo and found this fan site.