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Answers to common repair questions. The previous repair sticky posts may be found here. Clock hints and tricks
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Hints & How To's

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ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF ARTICLES IN THIS FORUM
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Tumbling Chains, etc., to Polish Them
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Reducing pendulum swing of quartz movement
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Historic Timekeepers Cleaner
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Using the old anchor to pattern a replacement.
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Adjusting Swinger Clock To Tell Accurate Time
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Putting an even patina on Brass
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Cuckoo Bellows Patterns •
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Chime Sequence is off on ODO Mantle Clock-Help?
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Count Wheel Mvt Without Locking Lever --discussion
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Setting the Beat of a Swinger Clock
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Pendulum Swing with Deadbeat Escapement
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Three-D Printing of Clock Parts
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Rack Hook Landing on the Point of a Tooth
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Ansonia count-wheel strike setup
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Useful Hints and Tricks •
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The cannon pinion
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Winding Key Letdown Tool
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TAMING THE SESSIONS TWO-TRAIN CHIME MOVEMENT
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Lantern Pinion Repair
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Adjusting the J-wire Strike •
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Encyclopedia Articles on Clock Repair •
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Putting a Swinger Clock in Beat •
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Grand Sonnerie Movement Explained •
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The Westminster Chime Sequence•
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Singing Bird Automaton •
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What Makes a Clock Run Slow? •
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Searching the Message Board using Google •
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Chime Rod Removal Tool •
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Drilling Brass •
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Re-Pivoting; Using the Center Finder •
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Replacing Barrel Hook •
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Adjusting & Making a Dead-Beat Verge •
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Dealing with the Sessions 2-train Chime Movement •
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Bill Stuntz on cleaning without disassembly •
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How to repair a quartz movement •
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Replace the Click Spring in a Hermle Sprocket Wheel •
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Calculating the Size of a Mainspring •
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Disassembling a Hermle 261-080 Two-train movemnt •
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How A Pendulum Clock Works •
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Clock Parts Terminology •
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Gustav Becker Two Weight Movement Tips •
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Kitchen Clock Alarm •
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Mainspring, Installing a "C" restraint •
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Mainspring, measuring length of •
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Mainspring, Re-holing •
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Mainspring -Servicing Full-Length •
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Oil a clock, How To (5 pages) •
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Reassembling a Clock Movement •
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Shellac, All About •
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Smoothing Broaches, making your own •
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Springwinder instructions:Keystone, Webster and Joe Collins
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Winding Key Sizes •
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Encyclopedia, How to Access •
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Floating Balance, All About •
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Making Vuillamy Deadbeat Pallets
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Making New Vulliamy Pallet Nibs
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Dovetailing for Tooth Repair •
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Disassembling an American Time & Strike Movement •
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Pivot-Polisher/Turns from a door hinge •
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Alarm Clock, synchronizing time & alarm •
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Arbor Hook - Replacing a broken •
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Hermle Chime-Strike Setup •
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Mainspring Chart •
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CRASH COURSE IN CLOCK REPAIR
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Calculate Pendulum Lengths from Tooth Count
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Gong, Making a... 101
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Remove the Numerals from Ansonia Ball Swinger
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Make your own liquid hide glue
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Using Compass to locate hole center
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Pendulums, All About •
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