You don't want a wind-up, because wind-ups wind DOWN.
There's something delightful in the idea of setting a CD player, clock radio, etc. to whatever music he hates most- Sinatra comes to mind- and having it come on at full blast. Unless you could find such a device at a yard sale this would get into too much money.
I wonder if there is an alarm clock program you could set going on his computer. If he has one, and if he's not in the habit of turning it off at night. And if it has REALLY LOUD speakers.
Other than that, I would guess the best option would be any of a wide variety of cheap battery-operated analog quartz alarm clocks. See if you can't find one that is cheap and loud! But here is where you get really nasty:
Glue it shut.
Glue the battery compartment shut. Cut off the setting knobs and of course the one that turns the alarm off, and seal the holes with glue, caulking, putty, something. If the clock is made of the usual styrene plastic, what you want is the kind of glue they use to assemble plastic airplane/ car/ ship kits, Testors model cement. But Super Glue will work. Just watch out, if you use it on styrene it puts out some nasty fumes.
Then you duct-tape, glue, or screw the clock to the back side of the headboard of his bed. Being careful not to do so in a way that would muffle it at all, of course.
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There's something delightful in the idea of setting a CD player, clock radio, etc. to whatever music he hates most- Sinatra comes to mind- and having it come on at full blast. Unless you could find such a device at a yard sale this would get into too much money.
I wonder if there is an alarm clock program you could set going on his computer. If he has one, and if he's not in the habit of turning it off at night. And if it has REALLY LOUD speakers.
Other than that, I would guess the best option would be any of a wide variety of cheap battery-operated analog quartz alarm clocks. See if you can't find one that is cheap and loud! But here is where you get really nasty:
Glue it shut.
Glue the battery compartment shut. Cut off the setting knobs and of course the one that turns the alarm off, and seal the holes with glue, caulking, putty, something. If the clock is made of the usual styrene plastic, what you want is the kind of glue they use to assemble plastic airplane/ car/ ship kits, Testors model cement. But Super Glue will work. Just watch out, if you use it on styrene it puts out some nasty fumes.
Then you duct-tape, glue, or screw the clock to the back side of the headboard of his bed. Being careful not to do so in a way that would muffle it at all, of course.