I am anxious to see what approach you will be taking on the movement as I have a Daniel Pratt that is waiting to be worked on.
Ron
Ron, there wasn't anything special about this one except the Babbitt bushings that were removed. These were fairly large, like is often the case even with wooden bushings. One was squarish and fairly thick and irregular and left a deep scar. I filled around the new Delrin-AF bushing with JB-Weld. It isn't easily visible and made a strong repair. The movement was in pretty good condition and the strike side had never been bushed so I used smaller bushings there. I think the pictures tell most of the story. The time side winding arbor had some bad places where it contacts the pivot hole so I used a thin steel sleeve over that section. The owner did not supply the pendulum and suspension so I used one I had here for the test run. Movement ran without any apparent issues on the first try.
I got a little snookered for a while on this one until I realized what was wrong. Apparently the owner, or someone on his behalf, had taken this movement apart. All the wheels were were in place but the two strike control levers were loose in the box. I noticed the three teeth that needed to be replaced on
the time side great wheel. I did the repairs and was starting to put things back together and something didn't seem right. The count wheel will run 12, 11, 10,-----2, 1 and the escape wheel wants to turn backward. Well whoever put it together got the main wheels in the wrong place. Thankfully I discovered the problem before the final assembly.'
The movement was already pretty clean and it appears that the plates and wheels had been coated with something, probably turpentine and linseed oil or something similar. That makes things look pretty but is a practice I do not approve of. On the edge of the movement is a very old strip of paper with an early date and words that are difficult to read. It had previously been varnished over. I was asked to preserve that label and I believe it survived OK.
RC
EDIT: Most of the pictures have captions that, at least on my computer, are not visible unless the image is enlarged full screen.