Installing a mig chronometer in my hotrod.

PM Rustem. He's cool.

 

The Russian language uses the cyrillic alphabet,
The small dial with "cek" is for seconds. The word on the knob on the side means 'start" probably to start chronograph. Russian word is ПУСК, pronounces 'poosk'.

 

You don't want to use this. Metric clocks don't coincide with American time. You will never have time to drive your car and when you do it will take forever to get there!!

 

You're assuming the car runs anyway I think it'll class up the joint a bit

 

Shoot me a PM if you get more pictures of whatever you want translated, but yeah - pusk/poosk directly translates to "start" or "launch". More likely than not the winding mechanism.

Cek is a contraction, sounds just like sec, and stands for seconds.

 

From my brother-in-law, the Navy hasn't had him fly much in the last couple years because of his new position, but it's interesting that they use a similar clock in the Navy's P3 Orion:


Gary,

The CEK in the center means Sec for seconds. The writing on the right hand knob means “Start.”

It seems like a fairly standard (actual face and Cyrillic writing aside) aviation “8 day clock.” Without being able to fiddle, my initial guess would be that the red knob would be to set the clock portion (possibly pulling out to adjust the minute and hour hands). The right knob being to wind it (ours winds only one way but you rotate the knob back and forth) and pushing in would start/stop/reset the center timer portion. I’m trying to recall from memory how our 8-day clocks actually worked. If I was to get back into the cockpit, again, it would just be there. As it is I have to work the old noggin’.

Hope this helps.

 

So I finally got this chronometer in the mail. And for those of you that helped so much I figured I'd let you know that I worked it all out.

The red button is the winding mechanism. It doesn't twist to the right, only to the left and while you turn it to the left you can feel it winding.
Upon further study pulling this knob out also allows you to set the time.

The metallic button labeled ПУСК has two functions, pressing it there is a loud click and the stop watch starts. pressing it a second time freezes the watch, pressing it a third resets the stop watch.
This confused me since there is an arrow above the word and no amount of twisting in that direction yielded any results. So I twisted it the other direction out of curiosity. Twisting the opposite direction of the arrow stops the main clock. Twisting back restarts it.

So ultimately its just plain cool. The only problem is it's about a half an inch bigger in all directions than the guy that sold it to me measured (stupid epay) so I'm either going to have to find something else to do with it (unlikely) or modify my dash.

Thanks for all the help fellas.

 

Hi! Sorry, read the post later. This is a good watch. Military production. Very high precision. A good buy. I hope your car will fly like the MIG!

 

Are you going to put it in your GAZ-A? Why not use an American chrono, like from a P-51 or F-4 or something?

Google "GAZ Ford" for more info... Gary

 

My car in Russia. See the emblem

 

The clock is both mechanical AND electirc. 27vac, although, 24 volts works as well.
The red knob....pull out to wind, counterclockwise only, do not go back and forth. Push in to set the time.
The other knob on right....twist to the left to operate the sweep hands. Twist to the right to stop the seconds operation. Push to reset the second hands to zero.
Sorry if this has already been explained, but it doesn't cost anything but a few minutes to type and/or read.