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Been a little quiet lately...busy splitting my life into two physical locations...

My friend brought me this clock to fix and I figured it would be a no brainer.  Then I discover this bent pivot.  If it were on a regular wheel, I would chuck it up in the lathe and make it right.  But on the anchor...I guess I have to disassemble it.  Not excited about that, frankly.

Any random thoughts?

 

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I decided that, for a pivot that never makes a full rotation...perhaps only 20 degrees...I would just assemble after cleaning and see how it goes.  It is running nicely!

Anybody ever seen a solid escape wheel??

BTW, this is an E. N. Welch.  I date it somewhere between 1885 and 1899. In 1903 Welch was taken over by Sessions.

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14 minutes ago, RichardHarris123 said:

What are you doing with the case? 

Nothing.  I have the clock on the stand for regulating.  Once that is finished, it will go back into the case.

BTW, that is faux marble accents.

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The steel in those American clocks is as soft as s***. Those black American cases are made to look like black slate like the French use but in fact they mostly wood. I have seen a few made of iron. 

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2 hours ago, oldhippy said:

The steel in those American clocks is as soft as s***.

I am pretty sure it was bent when a previous clockmaker was assembling and forcing the pivot in place.  It is a delicate dance when merging the two plates!!

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There not the easiest of movement to work on. You should try putting one together without spring clamps. I did for a bit of a challenge it took hours.   

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2 hours ago, oldhippy said:

There not the easiest of movement to work on. You should try putting one together without spring clamps. I did for a bit of a challenge it took hours.   

I am not familiar with spring clamps. When I assemble clocks, I just hold the plates together with my hand while nudging each wheel with a special tool until they are all in place. The tool has a tool on one end and a notch on the other.

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