Elliot Clock, No Tick Or Chimes.

[Geo]

I had a nice wee change today, a friend asked me to see if I could get his fathers old Elliot clock running. It could probably do with a complete strip and clean, but I'm way too busy to do that just now.

It was an easy fix to get it going, both the crutch and the pendulum needed a slight bit of tweeking. Someone has been at it in the past, and was a bit heavy handed. The crutch required very little bending to sort, but the twist and bend in the pendulum required a little more effort.

The Westminster chimes wouldn't work because one of the actuating levers that is driven from a cam was completely in the wrong place. It was an easy fix, after I worked out how it should operate. Another issue was someone had bent the click spring on the right hand barrel, thus preventing the chimes barrel from being wound. Again it was an easy fix. When the movement was fitted back in the case, I tweeked the hammers to get a nice clear sound.

After a touch of oil in the relevant places, it's now ticking away and chiming as it should!

[clockboy]

Nice looking clock & easy fix.

[oldhippy]

There good movements these Elliot's I have two platform escapement timepieces. If I remember correctly with the chime movements you can remove the barrels without taking the movement apart, very handy if the springs break and theirs no other damage. The whole movement is very simple to work on. Well done George it looks as if it needs a clean so you can always have it back in when you have less on.