One way to sort them out is to note that any wheel with a pin belongs in the strike train, as do all other funny-looking wheels. The remainder look quite plain, and those are for the time train. The only exception might be the first and second strike wheels, which don't have pins and resemble their time-train counterparts.
At times I have felt less than confident and have thus endeavored to mark the wheels prior to disassembling the clock. Many wheels stick far enough out that you can do this without much trouble, though I wouldn't use an electric engraving pencil, for these whack the brass rather hard and can stretch and bend things. Reach in with a small screwdriver and write S and T on each wheel you can get at, making sure that you're making your mark on the side of the wheel that would be visible when the removable plate is removed. (In some clocks both plates can be pulled off the posts, so you'll want to know which.) If you can't get at all the wheels it's generally no big deal because if even some are marked you can figure out which is which by guile and imagination.
In my earliest days I'd draw a rough outline of the plate on the side of a cardboard box and poke each wheel through the cardboard as I pulled it out. And take lots of digital photographs, always: a minimum of six good-quality views of the movement from top and bottom and all four sides, no matter how obvious it may seem at the time.
Mark Kinsler
At times I have felt less than confident and have thus endeavored to mark the wheels prior to disassembling the clock. Many wheels stick far enough out that you can do this without much trouble, though I wouldn't use an electric engraving pencil, for these whack the brass rather hard and can stretch and bend things. Reach in with a small screwdriver and write S and T on each wheel you can get at, making sure that you're making your mark on the side of the wheel that would be visible when the removable plate is removed. (In some clocks both plates can be pulled off the posts, so you'll want to know which.) If you can't get at all the wheels it's generally no big deal because if even some are marked you can figure out which is which by guile and imagination.
In my earliest days I'd draw a rough outline of the plate on the side of a cardboard box and poke each wheel through the cardboard as I pulled it out. And take lots of digital photographs, always: a minimum of six good-quality views of the movement from top and bottom and all four sides, no matter how obvious it may seem at the time.
Mark Kinsler