I have posted before about a clock that I bought in pieces and was told to be a Hershedes but told on this forum that it is not. I have finally gotten around to putting it together but there is one item that i am not sure how it fits in. I have placed it where I think it should go. I placed...
I recently purchased a Herschedes Grandfather Clock that is in pieces. I have never worked on a Westminster Chime mechanism before - only time and chime and cuckoo clocks. Since this came in pieces, I have no way of knowing where some of the gears go in order to work properly. I have put some...
I have a grandmother clock with a hermle movement in it. The spring barrel has a removable arbor with a long groove in it to catch on the spring hook.
The hook will no longer grab on the arbor. I have switched the arbors and they work in the other two spring. So my conclusion is that the...
This is a lantern pinion from my Waterbury wall clock. It is missing the wire that extends down through the lantern to the end of arbor. It was explained to me that this missing wire is the wire that picks up the teeth of the count wheel.
I have ordered lantern wire stock and my question is...
Does anyone have any hints as to how to clean pink spots and streaks off of a brass clock? It was very dirty and cleaned up nicely but the brass is discolored.
I am fairly new at repairing spring wound clocks. I have repaired several musical cuckoo clocks - my favorites - but spring wounds are something else. I purchased several clocks and many parts from a barn and need to sort through and repair them. This one was very dirty and I dismantled it...
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