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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    That is an excellent design and way to put the clock in beat quickly and easily. So much ingenuity in all these clock designs. Mark
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Our cat is a computer assistant too, jealous of the device, of course. Sounds like yours was a good one. I thought about the verge being slightly off center and realized that the "misalignment" would be handled by bending the crutch until the clock was in beat. And then it occurred to me that...
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    I forgot to ask FatrCat - are those pallets garnet? Unusual color, so I had to ask. Mark
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Hi FatrCat (cool name, BTW) - That is a neat arrangement for adjusting the verge lock engagement. What movement is it? I presume it's French, but only guessing. RC - I don't think I follow your comment about placing the pivot hole to the right of centerline. I presume you mean a vertical center...
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Hey - I thought of something else about your fine illustration: it seems to me as if the way either the excessive or insufficient lock is remedied is to move the crutch pivot either up or down. And in thinking about that - if I'm right - it's part of the reason Ansonia employed the arm that they...
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    That is an excellent contribution to the site, IMHO. Clear and easily understandable. Thanks for taking the time to lay that all out and generously give it to this community. I like to think that many clocks, down the road, will thank you as well :) Mark
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Excellent presentation and very good advice. Clearly, though this escapement design is robust, it's also requires a good deal of precision to make it work well. Incredible that clock companies could achieve reliability on a production basis, in that day, with such demanding requirements.
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Just a guess: the people frequenting this site likely have enormous clock conversations going on :)
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Thanks for the detailed reply (plus the riff on ruby/Garnet). I figure that it my friend's clock continues to run seven or eight days, I'm good with it. It would be interesting to try and rotate the pallets, but such a hassle if I broke one. I gather Timesavers still carries them (haven't...
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Thanks for pointing us to RC's video. My Newton and Muse Art clocks run with that much swing, which is what puzzled me about my friend's Don Caesar clock. I think it is an excellent movement, very accurate and linear over the course of the week. It's rare that either one is more than 20-30...
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Thanks. Good to know. I have Tran Duy Ly's Ansonia book and while some options are mentioned in the catalog pages, I've yet to come across the ruby pallet option. But then, it is a big book :) Mark
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    Replating Ansonia Statue/Figure Clock

    Say, I have another aspect about these figure clocks that's a mystery to me: how did Ansonia (and others) cast these complex shapes? Clearly not a two-part mold, of course. I don't know much about casting, but I am familiar with the lost-wax method. Problem there is that a new wax version would...
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Thanks. Lots to go wrong here. It would have been neat to see an R&D section in Ansonia's factory, where they worked all this out.
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    Welch 19th c American Welch 30-Hour Clock Weights

    Thanks. Good idea. Guess they were still working out the kinks...
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    Thanks for the leads on this - I should have searched for the subject first. Clear to see though how someone put the new ruby pallets in and got it wrong. Lucky that it worked at all. Mark
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    Ansonia Exposed Escapement Anchor Pallets

    So, here is a bit of an interesting mystery, one with two questions. But first, a little background...I imagine a lot of people here are familiar with the classic Ansonia open escapement movement, which were used in SO many clocks. It is a neat design, though it makes for a louder clock, seeing...
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    Welch 19th c American Welch 30-Hour Clock Weights

    BTW, it turned out that the channel the time weight runs in just needed to have the weight go up and down many times. My guess is that some crud of some kind had coalesced on the sides of the channel and were causing some friction. Hasn't been a problem for a long time now.
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    Replating Ansonia Statue/Figure Clock

    Richard - thanks a million for your experience and advice, which I'll gladly take. Someone else directed me to another thread that involves this discussion topic; in there it was said that the original method was a gilt wash (or bronze, in this case). Do you know how that process was done? Just...
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    Ansonia Figural Mantle Clock

    I have Tran's book too and you'll note that he has only one listing for each clock type, even if it was made for a series of years. He chose 1894 as being representative. Check the upper right hand side of page 160 for the note regarding this issue. As to the June 1891 date, that's just the...
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    Ansonia Figural Mantle Clock

    True, they aren't bad, but there are small places where the "brass" coating is gone, showing the gray spelter below. It would just be neat to see it as it was originally. Still mystified as to how these statues were created on an economical basis, too.
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