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picked up my first meter last weekend a double rhodes, needs some work, anyone know where i can find glass and meter face's.
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im always looking but never find, why........
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Does yours look like this? If I ever take this one apart I'll give my local glass guy the chance to cut new glass for it. Other than that my best guess would be ebay. Mike
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hey thx for the reply, yes that's the one, i paid 30$ for it. do you know about what year it is, its in good shape but the glass has yellowed. thx.
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I don't have a clue what years these came out but my older Park-O-Meters had glass instead of the Plexiglas windows that will yellow. There must have been a time when they switched from glass to Plexiglas. I have been polishing up the windows on my Duncan 60's with a car headlight restoration kit. Takes some of the scratches and yellow off and leaves them very nice looking. Any auto parts store carries the kits from cheaper to expensive. Better yet, I'll give you $30 and pay for the shipping and take that meter off your hands. It will save you years of headaches when all you do is think about parking meters and then you come home to this! Mike
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CAREFUL Mike or she'll place it outside the Throne Room ! Just far away that you can't feed it, when necessary.
She might even add one to the shop door, to get in.
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theres gotta be a reall funny joke here,but i cant think of it !!LOL
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Looking for gas,oil related clocks,especially neon and spinners .clock repair available. Mick
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im always looking but never find, why........
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After years of waiting I got this meter tore down today. It is the worst shape meter I have so far. Got it years ago from a guy down the street. Another meter from my hometown of Grants Pass, Or. Poor thing must have been left outside on the ground because it was full of dirt, moss, dead bugs and spider webs. The little clock part of the timers are shot so if I have enough spare timers I hope to get it cleaned up and working again. The lenses are almost impossible to see through. I'll see if my headlamp restore kit can bring them back to life. I am so glad my other Duncan Double from Grants Pass is not in this bad of shape. Mike
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Hey Quincy, Saw this ebay auction for your Rhodes glass.
Item # 220573523877
Sorry but this has ended but contact the seller. I see they have other stuff too. Mike
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Here are the two lenses after an hours work with the headlight restore kit. Not perfect but much better. I am very slow so there was only about 20 minutes of real work involved. Mike
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After looking around and asking question to buy "a" parking meter for the new shop this is where I am now, and have one more coming. May not be up to Mikes collection by who knows where it will end lol. Randall
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You've got a dandy collection there. You have a couple that I would like to own some day. Here is my latest line-up picture. 16 in a row. The two Duncan Doubles on each end are from my hometown of Grants Pass. Mike
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Wow, I started this post almost 2 years ago. Michelle is so happy I found another meter so here it is. Got this from the Spokane, Wa area. Got another timer too. Still need one more timer for my Duncan Double. Mike
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I was surprised by Michelle's liking of the POM I blasted down to bare metal. Maybe she has given up and just letting me do whatever I want? We'll see. Well I was not finished with it. Thanks to my Buddy Bob RICHARDS I remembered I had an extra piece for it. It is a counter, and long ago some of the meters had these. They actually counted the amount of money that should be in the meter. If a nickle was put in, the counter went up 5 and so on. My Buddy KOHOUT had a Michaels Bronze Art Meter that had a counter but I have never seen one on a Duncan or Miller. Park-O-Meters are the most common that I have seen. So far it is the older style that has the cut-out for them and the internals have to have different pieces to work. Mike
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A guy came over to look at my phone booth and I ended up with another parking meter. It is a DUAL brand and I didn't have one of those yet. He had a cute dog with him so that must have distracted Michelle enough for me to get the meter. Mike
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