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Hi Matthew - thanks for your excellent channel. I am a volunteer at my local repair cafe. We try to repair items for residents free of charge to save the items ending up in landfill. I have some clock experience and am currently dealing with a non working 2 weight Vienna Regulator. I have disassembled it, cleaned the parts in an Ultrasonic bath, reassembled and oiled it but the issue I have is the unreliability of the gut line. This springs off the drums and sometimes wraps around the drum spindle when there is no weight or pressure on the line. That makes installing the clock into the casing difficult and is a problem that will reappear when the weights are taken off to move the clock. I have tried twisting and taping the lines together when installing or when taking the weights off but it is difficult to keep the lines in the right place when they are so 'springy'. I have seen advice that suggests leaving the line unwound or half winding it around the drum and taping it in position or replacing the gut with a corded line which does not 'spring when the weights are removed. I favour replacing the gut with a cord but the only cord I have found so far is 0.8mm and the existing gut width and barrel spacing seems to nearer .3-.4mm. Any advice would be much appreciated if it would enable me to return the clock in working order..!

Thank you so much!

Very Helpful Matthew, Keep them coming !

Excellent, clear instructions. You mention setting the pretension on the (?) spring by tightening the set-up click screw to 1 - 1½ turns. Turns of what though? I'm new to this game, and so dismantled the clock without marking anything. Maybe you could explain a bit further or do a video showing how its done. Thanks

Excellent

Thanks Darryl. Will do!!!!

Hi Matthew great explanation and demonstration as usual, what if its a weight driven Vienna clock what is the process there and how do you get the right length of gut line if there wasn't old line to begin with, thanks again for the video.

Exelliant work

Informative video as usual Matthew

Hi please can make a video on putting card on fusee cuckoo clock

Hello Matthew. How do you recommend cleaning the fusee mainspring? Also thanks again for another informative video!! 👍

Hi Matthew, many thanks for the video, very informative as usual. Have purchased your book which is great! Just a couple of questions if I may? When is the second book due out please? And in this fusee movement, your escapement seems to be working flawlessly, mine only wants to run for a short while and not at all when the movement is levelled up both ways! Is there an easy way to set this movement escapement up? Thanks for any help you are able to offer.

Cześć Mateusz, trafilem przypadkiem na ten film. Podpowiedz mi proszę, jak wygląda zegar z takim naciagiem w całości. Dziękuję i Pozdrawiam Tom

Please could you tell me what the name of the disc on top on the winding ratchet is. I need a new one and do not know what it is called! Thank you.

Hi Matthew thanks for the latest video. A question I have is once the new line is fitted would you expect the escapement to start up straight away once the clock is wound ( on all fusee clocks) . I am thinking of my 3 month going skeleton clock which I am struggling to get reliably going. Unlike other fusee clocks that I have serviced (English dial and Bracket clocks) there is no keenness for the escapement to immediately spring into life. Best wishes Ian