Thanks, as always, for taking the time to help a friend in need out.
To start, I have an adamantine clock, built in January 1898. It's been recently repaired well (and as you know finding a 'guy' isn't all that easy, and is most likely getting harder all the time). It's style is 717 1/2 and it has a No. 44 movement.
Three questions, I hope I'm not being greedy:
1. It gongs about 1.5 minutes after it should, i.e. at 1401.30 and 1431.30. Is there a fairly simple way to correct that? I haven't tried moving the minute hand back, as I presume that could mean the end of the world as I know it, with dogs and cats living together and all that.
2. I recognize the s/f hole at the top of the dial (that hole clearly has a name right?) Do you all use that, or do you just ever so slightly adjust the pendulum only? And related to that, I presume that one could turn this all the way to the right or left to its limits. Is there a way to know when it's right in the middle, so it has the ability to be fully adjusted either way?
3. I purchased two of Steven Conover's books which I find interesting. I thought I might have found a copy of the original instructions but they weren't there that I could see. Do they exist? Did they?
Thanks much. I do so enjoy this clock, and these conversations.
Vr, Drew
To start, I have an adamantine clock, built in January 1898. It's been recently repaired well (and as you know finding a 'guy' isn't all that easy, and is most likely getting harder all the time). It's style is 717 1/2 and it has a No. 44 movement.
Three questions, I hope I'm not being greedy:
1. It gongs about 1.5 minutes after it should, i.e. at 1401.30 and 1431.30. Is there a fairly simple way to correct that? I haven't tried moving the minute hand back, as I presume that could mean the end of the world as I know it, with dogs and cats living together and all that.
2. I recognize the s/f hole at the top of the dial (that hole clearly has a name right?) Do you all use that, or do you just ever so slightly adjust the pendulum only? And related to that, I presume that one could turn this all the way to the right or left to its limits. Is there a way to know when it's right in the middle, so it has the ability to be fully adjusted either way?
3. I purchased two of Steven Conover's books which I find interesting. I thought I might have found a copy of the original instructions but they weren't there that I could see. Do they exist? Did they?
Thanks much. I do so enjoy this clock, and these conversations.
Vr, Drew