SPRINGING YOUR CLOCK TO LIFE AND KEEPING IT SAFE.

 Date: 24th November 2024

The Main springs are the life of your Spring Driven clocks, keep them in excellent condition and your clock will enjoy long life, but that too only if your other parts, gears, pivots wheels etc. are in good working order and not cracked bent or worn out in any way.

I recommend you have your Movement completely disassembled especially if you have purchased this clock from a third party, then to not only give it a regular service but have it thoroughly examined, double check the main spring(s) and if you see fatigue change them, while we are here ensure everything is checked including the nuts that hold the plates together and the pins, if there is excessive in any item wear change it or have it repaired, no two ways about it, this is an antique and it's got to stand the test of TIME, that's what these clocks are all about.

                                            Movement Completely disassembled

If it is the case of a broken spring do the same thing from disassembly and change the spring. Do not use broken springs it's just not worth it. it's quite common practice for some repairers here, they punch a new hole and fix it back without annealing that end, and unless they are metallurgists they can't. 

I hope I have sufficiently impressed you on you the need to change the springs, don't save on the pennies.

A snapped spring can result in damage to corresponding wheels  resulting in the need to make new wheels for which the clock repairer must be competent in machine shop practice or he may have to outsource the fabrication of such broken parts adding to costs.  

                   A broken Spring and an unused Spring of the same size.

More often than not clock repairers will tell you that fabricated gears and wheels although done with high tech equipment do not work and they are right, because if the components are not polished or polished insufficiently for lack of proper equipment and skill will result in unwanted friction which causes stoppages and all kinds of other compounded problems, avoid it.

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