The Clock Repairer's Handbook
1st Edition
Published on 17. August 2010
176 pages
978-1-62873-070-8 (ISBN)
Description
Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast. The Clock Repairer's Handbook provides information on how to repair and maintain a clock's delicate mechanics and teaches the basics of clock repairing through detailed, easy-to-follow instructions and more than three hundred instructive diagrams and illustrations. Advice and directions for cleaning clock movements, pivoting and mounting, fixing train faults and gears, the importance of lubrication and friction, and how to make sure the strike and chimes work on the hour, every hour. The Clock Repairer's Handbook provides all the necessary information to troubleshoot any clock's problems and to make sure your clock continues to run in perfect order for generations to come.
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The Clock Repairer's Handbook
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 - Finding Clock Faults
- FAULTS COMMON TO MOST CLOCKS
- ADDITIONAL FAULTS IN SPRING-DRIVEN CLOCKS
- FAULT FINDING CHART
- 2 - Cleaning Clock Movements
- FIRST STAGE
- SECOND STAGE
- THIRD STAGE
- FINAL CLEANING FOR ASSEMBLY
- 3 - Bushing Clock Plates
- BUSHING SYSTEMS
- 4 - Pivoting and Mounting
- RE-SURFACING A PIVOT
- MAKING A NEW ARBOR AND PIVOT
- RE-PIVOTING AN ARBOR
- MOUNTING WHEELS
- 5 - Anchor Escapements
- REPLACEMENT
- REPAIRING AN ANCHOR ESCAPEMENT
- 6 - Dead-beat Escapements
- REPLACEMENT
- REPAIR
- DEAD-BEAT ESCAPE WHEELS
- THE 400-DAY CLOCK
- 7 - Verge Escapements
- DESCRIPTION
- VERGE FLAGS
- PIVOTS AND KNIFE-EDGES
- BED AND APRON
- LOWER BEARING FOR CROWN WHEEL
- DRIVING POWER
- 8 - Train Faults and Gears
- MOTION WORK, DATE AND MONTH WORK
- CORRECTING ECCENTRICITY
- DAMAGED WHEELS AND PINIONS
- GEAR FORMULAE
- 9 - Suspensions and Crutches
- KNIFE-EDGE SUSPENSIONS
- SUSPENSION COCKS
- CRUTCHES
- PUTTING IN BEAT
- 10 - Strike and Chime Work
- STRIKE ON PASSING
- COUNT- OR LOCKING-PLATE STRIKING
- RACK STRIKING
- REPEATER STRIKE
- CHIMING WORK
- 11 - Lubrication and Friction
- Applying the oil
- 12 - Weight and Spring Drives
- WEIGHT DRIVES
- SPRING DRIVES
- FUSEES
- MAINTAINING POWER
- RATCHETS AND CLICKS
- 13 - Tools and Equipment
- *Pliers
- *Screwdrivers
- *Tweezers
- *Brass brush
- Bench
- *Lighting
- *Vice
- *Files
- *Saws
- *Dot and centre punches
- *Hand-drill
- *Drill bits
- Special drills
- *Broach
- Steel ruler
- Scriber
- *Emery paper and other abrasives
- *Gas torch
- *Micrometer and vernier calliper
- Lathe
- Taps and dies
- Soldering hearth
- Depthing tool
- Tin snips
- Planishing hammer
- Special tools
- Materials needed
- Supports
- Glossary
- Suppliers and Further Reading
- Index
