Wooden Work?s Clock Movement Restoration & Best Practices (Clock Repair You Can Follow Along) - Softcover

Lloyd, D. Rod

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798215071892

Verlag: D. Rod Lloyd, 2023

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Wooden Work?s Clock Movement Restoration & Best Practices 2023 Edition If you are lucky enough to own a clock containing a wooden works clock movement, you own a rare piece of history. You are just the current steward of a part of history. Like anything else, these clocks must be maintained. Fortunately, wooden movement clocks are the easiest clocks to work on due to the large size of the parts, their simple design, and no mainsprings to deal with. Wooden movement clocks are the perfect starter clock if you have never worked on a clock before but are interested in how they work. Repairs to wood parts only need basic woodworking skills. This book will take you step-by-step on your journey to learn how to repair wooden movement clocks and restore your rare piece of history.

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As a kid, whenever I saw an old clock at a jumble sale or going cheap, I would buy it and take it apart to see how it worked. I don't think I ever got one back together again, but I enjoyed tinkering with them. Twenty years later when I was getting married, now living in the USA, Auntie Florrie wrote to me saying I could now have my Grandfathers clock. I arranged to have the clock shipped over and it was proudly placed in the entrance hall to my home. It was built in about 1880 in Maghull England by a local clockmaker, [before the electric light was invented], had a stately mahogany case, hand-painted dial and ran nicely. After a few years, it stopped. I was frustrated that I didn't know what was wrong with it or how to get it going. I ended up having it serviced by a local repair shop and it ran again. I was fascinated with the clock. In 1995, my family decided to spend a year in England including putting the kids in school. It was a big challenge to arrange to swap houses with an English family. Finally, we were settled, and the kids started school, my wife was volunteering at a local charity shop and suddenly I had time on my hands. I read the paper that morning and came across an ad for a clock course starting nearby at Manchester City College. I called the college and they told me it was a three-year course, one day per week. I explained I was only in the country for one year, so I persuaded them to let me take the course, coming all three days. I enjoyed the course and did very well. The final exam took several weeks, making a ‘suspension bridge' from scratch to exact specifications, restoring several old clocks and watches. I documented the process and took the extensive final written exam all set by BHI [British Horological Institute]. I did pass the exams and became a Horologist. 25 years later I teach clock repair classes and ‘pass it on'. This is the class workbook.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: D. Rod Lloyd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798215071892
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Deutschland