which I was used to. My problem was at home: it was shift work, and there were times I'd wake up, look at my 12-hour clock, and- especially in winter with so much dark- have to get up and figure out if I could go back to sleep or had to get up.
So when I found an alarm clock that would set to 24-hour, it was wonderful. Still have it, but now it won't set to 24-hour. Not much problem now that I'm not getting up at 11 or 12 at night to get ready for work, but I miss it a bit.
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Many wristwatches have optional 24 hour settings, with an alarm function. I am wearing an Armitron which has that setup.
I would like to have a much nicer watch, with a mechanical movement, but years ago, I found that I am like my grandfather. For some reason, my dad's father could not wear a wristwatch, his body seemed to make them stop. My dad told me that it was somehow due to his dad's electrical field in his body.
I had a self winding wristwatch, I don't remember the type, that worked for about a month, then quit. I stuck it in a drawer, for a month, then tried it again, same thing, it would work for a month, then quit. Did this several times, then gave up on it.
I got a cheap Timex wind up watch which worked for a bit, but then it just died. Now I use the cheaper quartz types. I have one of the first digital types made by Bulova, that is a very nice watch, but I don't wear it.
I cannot even count the number of watches that I killed working around an induction furnace over 35 plus years. Taking slag off with a rebar or taking temps with a pyrometer on the end of a metal rod, of some alloys seemed to kill them. I used the stop watch function on the digital watches to time heating the bath to temp. So many minutes at full power of 2500 KW's would give you 100 degrees. We would usually tap out of the furnace at 3100 degrees, over to a vessel, where we would remove carbon, then get to spec and cast into a bar, to be cut up while still red hot.
We made metal for gun parts, food service industry, boat propellers, anything the investment cast industry wanted.
The other end of the shop was vacuum furnaces for melting metal for the aerospace industry. I ran those furnaces as well.
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