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    Main Springs - an appreciation and what ought I be looking for?

    Thanks for the responses and my comments: I wouldn't mind skipping my dipping process but any concerns about getting the oil on the inner most part of the spring coil? It gets awful tight in there. I've been using a 75W90 synthetic automotive gear oil based on a recommendation. Seems to be...
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    Main Springs - an appreciation and what ought I be looking for?

    Hi Glen, I'm not sure how I arrived at my methodology but I dip the spring in oil, then let it drip the excess back into the oil bath for an hour or so, and then wipe with a oil soaked cloth. The dipping part came about to ensure the spring was 100% oil covered, and the oil soaked cloth is to...
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    Main Springs - an appreciation and what ought I be looking for?

    With clock repair, I started with electro-magnetics, then tall case (weight driven), and now I'm finding myself into spring driven clocks. With regard to mainsprings, I fell into the newbie trap in thinking the mainspring was a relative passive thing that didn't need much attention. So I was a...
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    Insights from a friend that doesn't work on clocks

    but understands them. While I was working on a real disaster of a clock, he stopped by, looked at the clock and said: "The clocks escape meant well. However, it's escapement bent well." Thurmond
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    Craziest clock you've been asked to repair

    A friend asked me to repair this clock for his mother. It was missing its bezel and glass, and the pendulum bob. BUT it had wooden hands that actually fit very well. They don't interfere and they were sized appropriately to the minute and hour shafts. The movement had spider webs in it...
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    Oh man ... my first fusee overhaul

    I'll take a stab at this citing my ME degree (from 30 years ago) as my basis of knowledge ... Say you are the unfortunate fellow, whose fusee clock was improperly wound with a worn cable, and a failure is eminent. He would say a failure, either with a chain or cable, is going to be sudden and...
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    Oh man ... my first fusee overhaul

    Good observation. I have the clock disassembled (again) and I will straighten them. I'm not sure how they got bent in the first place but I'm pretty sure they were there prior to my disassembly. The pixs I'm presenting were taken during disassembly the 1st disassembly at my hands.
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    Oh man ... my first fusee overhaul

    Obviously, I'm no authority on fusee's since this is my first overhaul, and I probably shouldn't have said 'clearly meant'. The reason why I made my comment is based on the way the gut is attached to the barrel. The three holes (and their unequal spacing) look to me as a means to secure gut as...
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    Oh man ... my first fusee overhaul

    The grooves would appear to be squared bottomed. Yet the barrel was clearly meant to receive a cable.
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    Oh man ... my first fusee overhaul

    Hi Uhralt, Thanks for the great suggestion to use tennis racket gut! I suspect that's what the clock had in originally. For the first reassembly, I reused the old cable because I new the odds were against getting it right the first time. Also, on really nice clocks (as this one is), I like...
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    Oh man ... my first fusee overhaul

    All is good until the final winding ... eh. It's all got to come apart again. By the way, can anybody recommend a source for the type of plastic cable with green strip that I currently have on the clock? It obviously needs replacing and I like the feel of what I have because it has virtually...
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    Trouble removing spring from barrel

    Nothing stuck on the hook. The hook is fashioned rather crudely but seems to do its job.
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    Trouble removing spring from barrel

    Thanks guys for the suggestions. A combination of trying the techniques suggested finally freed the spring. The clearance for the needle nose pliers was close but not enough to really grab the spring. But after a couple times of reseating the spring within the sleeve (and trying a smaller...
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    Trouble removing spring from barrel

    The outer hook doesn't want to release from the spring. The first barrel came apart without too much trouble. I've tried gripping the removal sleeve with electrical tape and a hose clamp as a means to grip the sleeve (and spring) so that I could 'wobble' the spring around, and to apply so...
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    Pendulum bob weight

    Sometimes I'll take in a wayward clock for the tinkering fun. I got this one without a weight, pendulum rod, or bob. DIgging around the parts bin(s) I found a weight and bob. Had to experiment with the rod length until I got it right. And then I made the final rod as Shutterbug suggested...
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    Is there a minutes advancement tool?

    Hi Bill, Now I feel silly. I have those tools and they are an arm lengths away from me. Yet I was searching TimeSavers and else where for basically what I already have. Thanks for the response, Thurmond
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    Is there a minutes advancement tool?

    I'm not trying to change the timing per se. I'm just trying to find a fast and easy way to advance the clock by hours to certain critical operating points. For instance, the tall case clock I'm finishing now, advances the date wheel twice a day and the detent spring (on the date wheel)...
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    Is there a minutes advancement tool?

    During final test and adjustment, I need to advance the minutes/hours to certain points in time. And I resort to putting the minute hand on the dial-less clock as the tool to do it. Takes time to install / re-install the hand every time I need to make an advance. I'm imagining a screw driver...
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    Japy Freres clock disassembly question

    Excellent! I have hand pullers from my wristwatch days that have never worked that well on clocks. They just aren't designed to generate the amount of 'lifting' force as needed in clocks. This tool looks like it could pull anything of its shaft. Thanks for the pointer, Thurmond
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    Japy Freres clock disassembly question

    Gave it a half hearted try. The tweezers fit under the flag nice and snug, so there is good leverage to lift the flag off the arbor. But I felt that I was applying just too much force and something bad was going to happen. The idea of giving the arbor a tap is interesting. Its a useful...
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