The clock repairer's handbook

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Penman, Laurie

Antiques & Collectibles

Arco Pub.

This revised edition is a technical guide to all aspects of clock manufacture written to assist both the beginner and the experienced clockmaker. Each aspect of the movement and dial of a clock is considered as well as the instructions needed to actually carry out the work. It also describes deadbeat escapement and how to set about painting or engraving a clock. The author is a well known clock maker and restorer, who writes a regular column, "Penman's Pages" for "Clocks" magazines.

Clock Design and Construction including Dial Making

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Alphabooks

A guide to diagnosing and correcting faults in many different clocks, whether antique of fairly new. There are detailed descriptions of repair methods, including alternative techniques to suit a less well equipped workshop or inexperienced repairer. Many aspects of clock repair are covered, including lathe work, cleaning, bushing, pivoting and mounting, replacing or repairing an escapement, train faults and gears, suspension and crutches, striking and chiming work, lubrication, assembly and testing.

The Clock Repairer's Handbook

David&Charles

This truly comprehensive and practical new work is the first book to be devoted solely to the repair and restoration of the carriage clock, and as such will be greatly welcomed by professional and amateur alike. It describes the variety of movements found in the clocks that were produced by the thousand in France. The details of the simple timepiece, strikers, alarms, quarter repeaters, and grande sonnerie are shown and discussed here. Over 220 detailed and accurate drawings display the operation of the more complex parts and the text describes symptoms, faults, and corrections of each type of movement in turn, with other chapters on tools, major repair techniques, cleaning, maintenance, and a list of suppliers of materials.

The Carriage Clock: A Repair and Restoration Manual

Robert_Hale

This book is a practical guide to selecting, setting up and using an engineer’s lathe to create parts specifically for clockmaking or clock repairs. It begins as an instructional manual and consequently the first chapter assumes that the reader does not yet have a lathe and needs advice on choosing one. With over 160 diagrams and photographs, topics include: choosing and setting up the lathe; turning - materials and facing; boring and milling techniques; chucks, collets and face-plates; creating a height-centring gauge; pivots, wheels and pinions; removing and mounting gear wheels; fly cutters; making a flat depthing tool and, finally, creating centre marking tools. The intent is to provide a gentle learning curve for the practical use of the lathe.

Using the Engineer's Lathe in Clockmaking

The Crowood Press

Clock Design and Construction

Argus Books

Mr. Penman has done it again with this practical guide to building a time-only weight-driven brass movement. The machining steps for all parts are shown with complete illustrations, specifications and measurements. No detail is left to chance. Many tools and jigs are shown as well as the steps needed to make high-quality fly cutters for cutting the wheel teeth. He also lists where to get the pinion blanks. Of most interest to me is the unique "Penman Escapement" which is detailed in the book described as "a new form of recoil anchor escapement" which is easy to make, adjustable and fool-proof in operation. Needed are a lathe and drill press and typical machine shop hand tools and measuring devices. All measurments are metric so invest in a high-quality inch-metric mic if you don't already have one.

Making Clocks

Clockworks Pr

This book describes in detail how to repair and make the most popular clock escapements: crownwheel and verge, anchor(recoil), deadbeat and Brocot, with information on the more specialist types, such as the pinwheel, gravity and grasshopper escapements. Various types of pendulums and suspensions are also discussed. The emphasis throughout is on practical information, with additional advice on tools and jigs.

Practical Clock Escapements

Britain  in  60AD is divided into two major areas, the south east, which consisted of Roman Britain and the north which was now the nation of Camelod. This nation had grown rapidly from a small colony established by two Roman refugees, in 34AD. Over a quarter of a century Camelod has built a highly mobile army, and industries that make use of steam and water power. Although tiny by comparison with Rome, its' economy is strong.  When Roman tax collectors took advantage of the death of the King of the Iceni (officially recognised as a 'Friend of Rome') to seize property, much of the wealth of the tribe,  humiliate his Queen, Boudica and rape her teenage daughters before the assembled tribe, the Iceni rose and followed the raging Queen in an orgy of destruction vented on the cities of the Roman province.  Camelod watched the rapid growth of the rising, and mobilised its army to take advantage of the chaos that is resulting in the south. Rome's occupation of Britain hangs in the balance.

Boudica: Celtic Empire Part IV

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

BookSurge Publishing

The “common escapements” are those that are found in the domestic clocks that are most frequently found in a clock repairer’s workshop. The average clock repairer is very rarely called upon to attend to a three legged gravity escapement or a “Graham grasshopper” (my earlier book “Practical clock escapements” deals with those). A book that deals with the design of the escapement only is very useful, but what a repairer really wants is a quiet word with the person who mauled the clock last and some useful information about what to do to repair or replace the sad result. This book describes what the escapement should look like, how it should operate and practical measures to achieve those aims. It also explains the effects that different proportions of the movement have on the design of the escapement and points out the errors that arise as a result of assuming that all escapements are “square”, ie. linking the pallet arbor centre to the tip of the tooth that is about to be touched by the pallet, from there to the wheel centre and from there to the tooth that has just been released, and back to the arbor centre again – will trace out an approximate square. Most British authors appear to make this assumption, because long case and bracket clocks typically have square escapements, yet American and Continental clocks very frequently are anything but square. As a result repairers find themselves in difficulty when dealing with escapements that do not conform to the British pattern. My hope (and expectation) is that this book will make the life of the average repairer a little easier.

Common clock escapements: A description of common escapements and practical workshop methods for mechanical clocks ancient and modern

Penman, Laurence W

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