This 1990 classic hardcover book was revised seven years later as a second edition and is now in soft cover, workshop style binding. The book opens flat on the bench and is easy to use! The larger 8-1/2 x 11 page size is an improvement, too. The author has received favorable comments from repairers all over the country who have been rescued from difficult chime clock repair problems. They turned to the chapter on their clock and followed each illustrated step in the disassembly, repair, assembly and adjustment. Eighteen chime movements are covered, including Seth Thomas No. 124, 113, and Sonora Chime; New Haven; Sessions; Hermle; Ansonia; Winterhalder; Urgos; Jauch; Mauthe; Junghans; and more. The two lead-off chapters, Chime Basics and Common Repair Problems, are also indispensable. The novice clock repairer can move on to repair the clocks covered in the book; these are the clocks people actually have, not rare museum pieces. The professional will want to keep the book handy to use as a reference each time one of the movements comes in for repair and that's often! The detailed drawings in this 126-page book are the author's trademark. Chime Clock Repair has a table of contents and index.

Chime Clock Repair

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Conover, Steven G.

Home Improvement & Design

Clockmakers Newsletter

Book 9 German Clocks covers repair procedures for a category of clocks representing a wide range of styles and ages. This book is organized into four chapters covering several types of German clocks. Chapter 1, Older German Wall &amp; Mantel Clocks, covers late 19th and early 20th century German movements. Chapter 2, Modern-Era German Movements, provides repair information on wall and mantel clock movements from the second half of the 20th century, as produced by Hermle, Urgos, Jauch, and others. These German movements were cased and sold as complete clocks by American companies such as Howard Miller and Ridgeway. Chapter 3, Cuckoo Clocks, describes a group of clocks loved by their owners, yet avoided by some repairers. Most cuckoo clocks were designed to run one day on a winding, with a cuckoo bird figure appearing every hour. Some cuckoo clocks had complications such as music boxes and miniature whirling figures in colorful German costumes. Chapter 4, 400-Day Clocks, covers a style of German table clock that was manufactured in the millions in the second half of the 20th century. These clocks featured a torsion pendulum that rotated in one direction and then reversed itself, rather than a swinging pendulum or a balance. Grandfather clocks with German movements, whether modern-era or older, are covered in Book 4 Grandfather Clocks in this series.

Book 9 German Clocks

Steven G. Conover

How to Repair Herschede Tubular Bell Clocks, Expanded Second Edition covers complete repair procedures for these famous American tubular bell chime grandfather clocks. Topics include the Whittington, Westminster, and Canterbury chime melodies; disassembly and repair of the movement; assembly and adjustment; troubleshooting; a company history; plans for a test stand; illustrated spare parts list; and a reproduction of the Owner's Manual. The author's original drawings provide details of the movement's parts and assemblies.

How to Repair Herschede Tubular Bell Clocks

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Building an American Clock Movement presents an exciting clockmaking project: making a sturdy American timepiece movement! The pendulum length is just over six inches, perfect for a shelf clock case. First-time clock builders will be able to follow each step through to completion. The author explains and illustrates each clockmaking step as he uses Sherline and Unimat equipment to make the parts. Since writing the book in 1994, the author has heard from many clockmakers who sucessfully used these plans for making their first clock movement. The ability to make gears is what sets the true clockmaker apart. That's why it s a big bonus to have the complete set of plans included in this book for making J.M. Huckabee's Wheel Making Fixture and the gear tooth fly cutters of Archie Perkins (AWCI). The book is especially helpful to repairers who want to learn to construct missing clock parts such as wheels, recoil escapements, lantern pinions, and other assemblies. With 155 photos and drawings, this 8-1/2 x 11 spiral-bound format opens flat on the bench.

Building an American Clock Movement

Striking Clock Repair Guide uses the author's time-tested method of presenting detailed illustrations and step-by-step setup and repair procedures for clock mechanisms. The subject here is the striking clock. Just look at the movements covered in this book: American count wheel mechanisms by Ansonia, Seth Thomas, Ingraham, New Haven, and others; French count wheel and rack strike movements; English bell strike grandfather movement; German wall clock with count wheel strike; Hermle 130-series strike; and four different ship s bell strike clocks. There are two bonus features covering the making of hand-wound brass wire springs for strike arbors and a bending tool for adjusting strike levers. The easy-to-use 8-1/2 x 11 format opens flat on the bench. The clear writing and 108 illustrations make this 90-page book a must.

Striking Clock Repair Guide

Antiques & Collectibles

Clock Repair Basics is a clock repair course in itself. Start with letting down the mainspring power, then take apart a movement, clean it, and repair it! The basics on escapements, pendulums, bushing work and more are all in this book. You'll have a glossary of clock terms, a lubrication guide, a beginner s guide to strike and chime mechanisms, a section on electric clocks, and a special chapter featuring five starter clocks: OG, American spring driven strike clock, cuckoo, 400-day, and modern Hermle chime clock. There are 92 pages of text, with index, and 158 photos and line drawings in this large 8-1/2 x 11 format. Experienced repairers will also find plenty of useful information in the book. Compare your methods to the ones described in the book, and use whatever helps you! Keep it right on the bench for the hard-to-remember mainspring length formula, the methods for determining beats per hour and pendulum length, and quick-reference adjustments for the major escapements.

Clock Repair: Basics

Crafts & Hobbies

Attention clock builders! How to Make a Foliot Clock presents full instructions on making your own complete clock. It is printed in the publisher's 8-1/2 x 11 spiral binding format that opens flat on the clockmaker's workbench for easy reference. The 88 pages are organized in twelve chapters with a table of contents, tool and material list, index, and 73 photos and drawings. The clear text is placed on pages facing the major illustrations, sparing the reader much page-turning during the project. The author's clear digital photography and drawings combine to show the steps leading up to a complete, working clock. The foliot clock is a weight driven skeleton timepiece controlled by an antique style foliot balance, rather than a pendulum or hairspring. Made primarily from brass and steel, it has a paper dial, a single hand, and a swinging foliot made from oak. Pinions are of the lantern type, made to work with specially designed wheels with triangular-shaped teeth, in keeping with the antique appearance of the clock. The foliot clock runs for a day and a half on one winding. Use your miniature lathe and gear cutting equipment, drill press, and other shop tools. Add some modern adhesive, tie a few knots, and create the latest in 17th century technology!

How to Make a Foliot Clock

Clock Repair Skills is the sequel to the author's book for beginners, Clock Repair Basics. The new book carries the reader through the next steps in becoming an expert clock repairer. Learn the intermediate skills that the beginner is often unable to do. Some examples of the skills covered in the book are repivoting, lantern pinion repair, gear tooth replacement, making bushings, making and repairing hands, recoil escapement repairs, and many more! The topics are presented as step-by-step, specific repairs. If you repair clocks, you will often find the task on hand covered in this book. Look at it another way: master all the procedures in Clock Repair Skills and you'll be ready for just about any repair! The binding matches author Steven G. Conover's other repair books. You ll have an easy-to-read, 8 1/2 x 11 size volume protected by clear plastic covers and spiral bound, to allow the pages to open flat on your bench. There are 12 chapters plus an index 92 pages packed with 225 photos and drawings!

Clock Repair Skills

How To Repair 20 American Clocks is the author's eighth book about clock repair and clockmaking, featuring a new approach: the whole clock is covered! Each chapter covers the assembly procedure for an American movement. And, depending on the particular clock being restored, chapters discuss one or more of the following: escapement, hands, dial, pendulum, and case. Each clock is scored for construction quality, ease of assembly, ease of adjustment, and timekeeping accuracy. There is also the author's analysis of the highs and lows for each clock. You'll find more: gear tooth counts for time and strike trains, beats per hour, and mainspring specifications. The author has included 18 striking clocks by the major U.S. makers, including Seth Thomas, Ansonia, New Haven, Ingraham, and others, plus two Poole electromechanical clocks. The American factories installed the featured movements in hundreds of different cases. The book illustrates case styles of the 19th and 20th centuries including OG, walnut shelf, steeple, cottage, black mantel, wall regulator, and more. The book is 8-1/2 x 11 in size and protected by clear plastic covers. It is comb bound to allow the pages to open flat on your bench. There are 20 chapters plus an introduction, table of contents, index and mainspring table &amp; 140 pages packed with 246 photos and drawings!

How to Repair 20 American Clocks

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Chime Clock Repair

Book 9 German Clocks

How to Repair Herschede Tubular Bell Clocks

Building an American Clock Movement

Striking Clock Repair Guide

Clock Repair: Basics

Chime Clock Repair

How to Make a Foliot Clock

Clock Repair Skills

How to Repair 20 American Clocks