Clocks - Restoring a Longcase / tallcase chapter ring, re waxing & re silvering 

I’ve just done this job myself. Unfortunately, I found your video AFTER I’d done it 😡 I followed advice on another video and on a website and they left out two very important steps that you showed us here. Washing out the old wax with ammonia - and wiping off the hot wax with a card. Really, really wish I’d seen that before I did it! I did find, though, that a heat gun (like a super hot hair dryer) worked very well to melt the wax.

It was a real pleasure watching this Sara. I'm a watchmaker and don't really work on clocks, but you taught me something new. Thank you.

Very nice job Sara, and thanks for sharing.

You are good. I have one like that off of a grandfather clock.

I am seeing this years later but appreciate it none the less. I have done numerous dials and it is simply a lot of work! I am unsure of the product you used (at 12:00) to remove the residual wax (the purple liquid). This has always been a struggle point for me in that I tend to unwantingly remove newly applied wax/shellac from the relief areas. Thanks!

Thankyou for such a good demo of restoring and re silvering the chapter ring I've done a few of them in the past but I much prefer your method as it's more efficient. Jim from AUSTRALIA.

sara -- many thanks for the wonderful video -- if you are still monitoring the thread -- what cleaner did you use to remove the last vestiges of shellac wax from the chapter ring at 12:10 in the video ? the purple liquid -- you have given me the courage to attempt a similar project --

Is the shellac stick the same thing as engravers wax?

Very useful and informative tutorial. Are you going to tackle anything else LC related / brass backplate for example ?

12:01 “So meths” she says. Is that a uk wax cleaner😂the purple stuff, please….

Your technology is interesting, and then your hands probably turned black in the sun. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very nice job Sara, and thanks for sharing.