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An online clock repair technical journal
This is a collection of notes, and technical information on clock repair based on real world experience in the trade. It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license which allows many freedoms. There are also some very important responsibilities that come with the use of this license.


Subject links
INTRODUCTION

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Antique cuckoo specs
Bushings (installing new bushings)
Case (clock cabinet) repair
Clock Repair Essay
Chain problems
Cuckoo clock chain fitting
Cuckoo clock repair
Date code
Dead beat escapement
Definitions of clock parts
Dial removal
Eight day Regula cuckoo
E Ingraham duplex no 3
Elliott clock
Fan balance
Gilbert
GNU Free Documentation License
Golden Hour clock glass
Governor balance
Herschede
How to drill glass
Jacques 7 melody floor clock
Junghans
Lubrication
Mainspring specs
Mainspring Barrell Caps
New Haven
Oil
Quail cuckoo repair
Repivoting Hints
Saw clock(rack clock)
Sessions Inlay Number 6
Sessions Westminster Chime ( 2 mainspring style )
Seth Thomas 115d
Seth Thomas a-200
Seth Thomas ships clock military time
Seth Thomas Sonora chime
Seth Thomas 124
Ships bell sequence
Strike hammer support spring
Suspension repair
Telechron
Theory and problem solving
Tools
Waterbury 3 plate w/c


Included topics:
  1. Pendulum theory
  2. Sympathic vibration
  3. Setting the beat
  4. Tools
  5. What causes a clock to stop ?
  6. Electric clocks
  7. Centerpost cam removal
  8. Drilling glass
  9. Ships bell sequence
  10. Assorted specifications
  11. General Mechanical clock theory
There are as of Dec 2002 approximately 80 pages ( 184k ) of condensed information in this journal. Some of it has been edited and is in the subject index on the left. The rest is unedited except for spelling. It is a very large text file and may take some time to load if you have a slow connection.

Links to other clock sites:
Historical Clock and Watch Research
The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC)
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