I am a clock collector and restorer of vintage and antique mechanical clocks. Join me at the bench as I service, repair and restore antique and vintage mechanical clocks, mantle clocks, wall clocks and alarm clocks.
Learn how to repair bent clock wheels / remove clean and install clock springs / use an ultrasonic cleaner / re-machine and blue clock screws / repair a damaged barrel mainspring / grease clock springs / and advanced clock repair techniques.
American clocks, English clocks, German clocks, French clocks, Alarm clocks, Japanese clocks, Flip clocks, Cuckoo clocks, Korean clocks and Chinese clocks.
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Thank you very much for the video that shows the restoration of a clock! On watching the video people will no more get tempted to throw the old, damaged and unfunctioning clocks into garbage or by the side of road. Instead they get idea to repair and use the clock again. So that wastage of old ones and soil pollution can be avoided.
Thank you very much for your demonstration and explanation! People will get idea to repair and use the clock again if it did not function so that wastage of old ones and soil pollution too can be avoided.
Anyway..have you ever got difficulty in pulling out the crown ? I have another swatch, i can not pull out the crown for the second step (to set the clock)
Thanks for this series on the Westminster chime clock. Is there a final upload, showing how to adjust the cams etc, to make the chimes operate in correct sequence?
241 I love speculating about how a clock was damaged. Most cuckoo clocks I've seen suffered a fall at some point, usually breaking hands and the crown, and sometimes bits of the roof. That cutout corner of the roof on the first clock makes me imagine that someone cut that part of the roof off so they could put the clock in a corner out of the way. At any rate, an interesting reveal - thanks for the video.
It makes perfect sense to anneal prior to performing the rework steps but is there a re-temper step before reinstalling the mainspring and what are the recommended steps to perform the re-temper? I assume the heat applied should have a cherry red color at max heat but what is the quench medium? Water or oil and what kind of oil if that is the medium?
I have a 30 Day Rhythm Clock and am unable to get the spring to wind back up. I know it probably isn’t valuable but it is sentimental. It was given to me by someone I looked up to. Any suggestions?
Thank you very much for your demonstration and explanation! So that people will no more get tempted to throw the old unfunctioning clocks out and buy new one. Thus wastage of old ones are avoided.
Thanks for the detailed video. I started working on a Sessions movement and, upon inspection, found that I need to replace both click springs. I've never replaced one before and found this video to be very helpful. Thanks again. Jim
An alarm clock with alarm hand in the central axis or in sub dial which is more expensive and what is the difference between the arrangement of gears in both?
Thanks for your kind comments. I have a new Clock Repair-Essentials series starting in a month or so, as soon as I have some more content ready to upload.
In the 1950s, car manuals explained how to set up the engine tappets, modern car manuals warn against drinking the battery acid. 'Nuff said. Thanks for your comment.
Hello, Scottie! Thank you for these videos on this Gilbert clock. I am currently working on my first clock adventure and it, too, is an old Gilbert movement with a circa 1879 patent date. It is a weight driven movement for time and a spring driven movement for chime. The wheels arrangement is very similar to this one of yours, though. I think the wood on your clock may be maple. It could possibly be pecan but I don't think it is dark enough. Probably not ash. Definitely not cherry. The grain appears too fine and not enough contrast in the grain structure to be oak, JMHO, though.
@@ScottiesClockWorld I am gonna pick op some polishing paste today and try to polish the transparant part. I'll let you know how it turned out. Do you perhaps know in which video you show how to do it? Would be nice to see before I start with mine! Thanks:)
hello, i have 2 questions. the first is, where did you go to buy the replacement spring, it isnt in your description nor comments. secondly, how do i tune my clutch so that the pendulam does not stop. thanks for sharing all this
Hi Scottie -a question if I may After I’ve disassembled the clock what would happen if the time side main spring on reassembling went back in the strike side of the clock and visa versa - would the clock work??
Yes, the clock will still work. The strike and going side Great Wheels and mainsprings each have slightly different wear patterns that's why it's best to return them to their original train.
Great video. Can’t believe my grandad used to change his by hand with the clock I inherited. Think I’d rather use a winder, as doing it by hand looks more dangerous than giving a cat a bath. Loving all your very informative videos.
Hi Scottie. Have been watching over time (opps!) many of your U Tube videos absolutely spot on for a beginner like me .They have helped me enormously to progress my interest and hobby in clock repairs etc. Already booked a front seat for the next round Kind regards PNH.
