Magic Fix for Clocks

[Folkvisor]

I discovered that taking the clock mechanism out and putting it on a test stand will fix a clock.

Before I removed the clock mechanism the minute hand wouldn't move for some reason but after I took the works out and put it on the test stand it was fine.

So, now I have to sneak it back into its case without it knowing...

One Caveat, this may only work with Ingraham clocks...

[Lenj]

That's good news a least there is nothing seriously wrong then, maybe the hands were too tight?? Be interesting to see once back in the case..

[Folkvisor]

It seems happy back in its case. 

[clockboy]

4 hours ago, Folkvisor said:

I discovered that taking the clock mechanism out and putting it on a test stand will fix a clock.

Before I removed the clock mechanism the minute hand wouldn't move for some reason but after I took the works out and put it on the test stand it was fine.

So, now I have to sneak it back into its case without it knowing...

One Caveat, this may only work with Ingraham clocks...

If only it was that easy !!!. 

[Folkvisor]

I'd had the thing working for more than a year with no problem but it just quit.

Going again now...

[Folkvisor]

Someone suggested it may have been a small piece of wood from the case that fell into the works and then, when I took it apart, it just dislodged.

So, perhaps, but I didn't see anything...

[Lenj]

Very much like going to the dentish with tooth ache and when you get there, the tooth ache has gone...lol

[Folkvisor]

Very much! I think dentists scare them away...lol

[oldhippy]

Magic Fix for Clocks. There is no such thing.

[Folkvisor]

The hours I've spent working on them proves you out.

And I am just an amateur...

[Folkvisor]

I took the French Slate clock back 'home' and I got a call after a week telling me it had stopped.

I asked them if they'd wound it. The guy just said, 'O.'

Haven't heard since...

[oldhippy]

1 hour ago, Folkvisor said:

I took the French Slate clock back 'home' and I got a call after a week telling me it had stopped.

I asked them if they'd wound it. The guy just said, 'O.'

Haven't heard since...