Just reading through some of these older threads while it's heavy raining and stormy outside.
A 33 kV pole fell over outside our depot and knocked all power out this morning with a large humm from the substation transformer.
Taking the brake magnet out will make the meter go faster.
I collect older electromechanical kWh meters and when I was younger I liked to see the dials move faster too to watch numbers click over to 1000 or 10000 etc, so by removing the magnet and put the low load adjuster to + or fast the meter will creep even with no load at all.