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    One regulating nut short of a full Japy Freres

    Thank you very much for your guidance and advice. Does anyone know of a supply for the regulating nut for the center of that pendulum? Thank you for the cement options, I will look into that. I was also told to talk to a highly talented glass blower retired in our town, a useful part of our...
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    One regulating nut short of a full Japy Freres

    Another something followed me home yesterday, and I was hoping for some wisdom and guidance from you. Its a Japy Freres stamp (terrible picture included), I think the Grd Med from 1867. Between the stamp, a side click Brocot, a count wheel, and the pendulum I am guessing made between 1867 to...
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    Is this an early Gebruder Resch?

    Thanks Piotr and Scottie for your help. My father is getting it back once I finish timing it. I really have enjoyed this one, partly for tinkering with mechanisms far older than I am used to (oh the tiny pivots and pins!) but a lot due to imagining the personal history of the previous...
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    Is this an early Gebruder Resch?

    Great! Thanks for the info, knowing what it isn't is one step closer to knowing what it might be... I just spent a while looking at web images of the backs of regulators and found 2 with a similar bridge, but none were identified. Are things like the bridge shape and other specific features...
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    Is this an early Gebruder Resch?

    My father picked this up and I just finished cleaning and restringing it. Is this a Gebruder Resch? No makers marks, only the ser# 7048 on the back of the movement. I compared the back of the movement to a number of Vienna Regulators online, and the closest match I could find was a G-R...
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    Pagoda style Jahresuhrenfabrik

    kamil, there appears to be some reproduction finials from the more traditional style on eBay from this seller. http://www.ebay.com/itm/BANDSTAND-LOUVRE-DOME-400-DAY-JOURS-ANNIVERSARY-TORSION-JAHRESUHR-CLOCK-FINIAL-/121237034538?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c3a4a562a
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    Who is F. Zacher?

    No relation to me, so I am of no help. Are these uncommon enough (badged with the Zacher surname) to preclude me from ever finding one for myself now that I know such a thing exists! zacher
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    Yay! My first Gustav Becker: couplea Q's

    John, Thanks very much for the info, it is good to know that some of the replacement pieces are being remade. My bracket seems to be a #7, so I am not sure if that top block fits it. There is however a wrench thrown into the ID: I found some "extra" parts in the box, a set of posts shown...
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    Yay! My first Gustav Becker: couplea Q's

    I was done with any more 400 day acquisitions, but then a GB followed me home today. Well, most of one, it looks as if it has been augmented. And the wire guard is long gone. And the base bothers me. But it has a dome! However, the previous repairman was able to correct that well known...
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    Cuckoo Found a strange "mountain scene" cuckoo

    Harold and soaringjoy: Thank you for your guidance! I just finished cleaning and reass'y. I now understand what cast plates are, I nearly cut myself on the ragged over-mold. On the movement, there was a faint brickwork? pattern on the brass in some places but no stamps or words of any kind...
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    Cuckoo Found a strange "mountain scene" cuckoo

    No, I don't have any pre-war cases. I see what you mean, that the wood looks kind of whitish like it might not be really old. I do have a 60s(?) era one and it looks kinda similar on the inside, although the wood latched side doors are plywood instead of solid wood like the one door that came...
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    Cuckoo Found a strange "mountain scene" cuckoo

    Harold, thank you for the guidance! So, how do I tell if this is a cast plate? While the front piece looks like a more recent addition, the sides and back of the case feel quite aged, the pictures don't really capture that. The front being newer would also explain the silver paint on the dial...
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    Cuckoo Found a strange "mountain scene" cuckoo

    Found this odd cuckoo and couldn't help myself! Pictures below, it is a relief carved mountain side front with 2-tone stained highlights. I guess 1950s by the guts. Has a wooden bird w/ moving wings, lyre movement with count wheel, 1 day, numbers are silver paint, and has 720g weights...
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    Seth Thomas Alarm Clock Electric Motor Replacement

    Looks like a M5A motor from general time. Look on the paper around the field coil on the side, it should say which motor it is. Search for M5A in the forums for more info and pics.
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    Schatz 400 Day Clock missing peice

    That is plate 1279 in the Horolovar book. They recommend a .004" suspension wire for this one, and you can also buy the whole suspension assembly premade for you if you wish. Just for clarity, I assume the picture is of before you lost it the part you are missing is the square block. Chris...
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    Schatz 400 Day Clock missing peice

    Plove, Its called a lower suspension block. You can contact the Horolovar company at (740) 277-7083 for a replacement. It may also be a good idea to get new suspension wires while you are at it to have a few on hand, as if the bottom block fell off it most likely broke the end of the wire off...
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    Info wanted about Geo Borgfeldt & Co Clock made in Germany

    In a similar vein, I also have a Geo Borgfeldt shown below. It is ser# 18022 which I think puts it 1927 (no cup, and a little bob for the lower post on the pendulum). I haven't seen enough pictures of them to know, but were the enamel faces like this from that period? I have seen quite a few...
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    I'm a sucker for the odd one...

    Thanks for your help. The set wheel does just idle in place. Oddly enough, I found that a pendulum ball cap from a junk John Wanamaker movement was exactly the right pitch size and I can use this until a permanent solution is found, or until I just forget about it and leave it there. Heh!
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    I'm a sucker for the odd one...

    Upon realizing I was merely acquiring clocks and not collecting, I am starting to be a bit more judicious about my finds. But, alas, I am still a sucker for the weird one. This is a Kundo midget, some kind of odd box arrangement, sort of a plate 1407A but with extra holes for the set knob and...
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    keeping time at 7.5 beats per minute after wheel transplant?

    Joe, well that's a relief! Thank you for that link. My predecessor turned the ecc nut and adjusted the pallets so I have been fighting with this getting it back to correct operation for a while and had assumed it was still fluttering initially. The 7.5 bpm was the last straw. On top of that...
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