RESTORATION FROM SCRATCH TO FINISH

 DATE: 17/06

Only at the Old Cloxhibhition can you get your clocks fully restored from scratch to finish.

If you own an old clock that is worth keeping and if it is not in pristine condition, have it restored from scratch without sacrificing its identity.

Restore the clock to its Glory days and maintain it is a family heirloom. Antique clocks add splendor to the interior of any home, they become an icon in your homes, and appreciate in value  time.

See the before and after work. There are More examples at our Gallery.

At the old Cloxhibhition we send your clock mechanisms to experienced and skillful horologists overseas to repair and service your clocks and return the piece in it's original condition to work as if it were new.

We offer a 3 year warranty on the clock from the date the clock has been repaired.

Our works are total, although at times we may find difficulty in restoring damaged, finely carved cases.

Our Equipment

Our dedicate workshop in Vietnam is equipped with State of the Art equipment to give you the best quality in clock repair.

The above is a picture of a Spring Barell mounted on a 3 - jaw, lathe chuck and being machined to perfection.

The chuck on this lathe is designed for securely clamping cylindrical workpieces.

These chucks feature reversible jaws to accommodate different workpiece sizes and shapes.

They are ideal for fast, repetitive machining of symmetrical parts due to their self-centering capability.

Concentricity is adjustable within 0.005mm to 0.05mm depending on the model and quality.

The Desktop lathe machine doing this job is more than effectively sufficient to cater for even the most complicated clock parts;

 

    

Common Applications in Clock Repair

• Bushing Worn Pivot Holes: Over decades of use, clock pivots wear down the holes in the brass movement plates, changing their shape from perfect circles to elongated ovals. Clockmakers clamp the plates to the milling table to locate the exact original center, then use precise end mills to cut straight, perfectly centered holes to receive new brass bushings. [1, 2]
• Wheel and Gear Cutting: While a lathe can turn the initial brass wheel blanks, a milling machine paired with an indexing head or rotary table is used to cut the precise profile of the teeth into the gear. Special profile cutters run along the edge of the wheel blank to create identical teeth. [1, 2, 3]
• Cutting Pinion Leaves: Clock pinions (the small, high-stress gears that mate with larger wheels) are cut out of hard silver steel. The milling machine provides the rigid setup necessary to machine the exact tooth profiles and spaces of the pinion leaves evenly. [1]

The picture of the Spring Barell above is from this lathe, this machine is highly  a highly  sophisticated tool for clock making and clock repair.

.In clock repair and horological restoration, a desktop mini metal lathe serves as a foundational tool used to fabricates or repair precision components that cannot be bought off the shelf. While watchmakers utilize tiny, specialized 8mm or 6mm collet lathes, the extra mass, rigidity, and physical power of a mini metal lathe make it ideal for the larger scale components found in mantle, wall, and grandfather clocks.

Core Applications in Clock Repair

• Pivot Polishing and Re-pivoting: Clock wheel axles (pivots) wear down or break over time. Repairers use the lathe to turn down the worn steel, drill a precise microscopic center hole into the arbor, insert a new high-carbon steel pin, and polish it down to its exact original fraction. 
• Making Custom Bushings: When the brass plate holes supporting a clock gear's arbor wear into oblong shapes, the lathe is used to machine custom brass bushings. These are bored out and pressed into the plates to restore perfect vertical alignment. 
• Fabricating Missing Parts: Antique clocks rarely have replacement parts available. The lathe allows a repairer to turn raw brass or steel bar stock into custom parts like winding stems, click springs, clicks, posts, and arbors.
• Trueing and Repairing Barrels: Mainspring barrels can bulge or distort from the extreme energy of a spring snapping. A mini lathe provides the clearance to mount, face, and true the inner or outer dimensions of a mainspring barrel back to round. 
• Gear (Wheel) Cutting Extensions: When fitted with a specialized indexing plate and a vertical milling attachment, a mini lathe can be used to accurately space and mill custom teeth out of raw brass blanks to replace broken or stripped gears. 

For real quality repairs and restoration jobs of your clocks you require work of this quality to ensure that your back plates and parts are still reworkable should they fail. 

Our work is guaranteed for a period of three years, that does not mean your clock will breakdown after the period, it could go omn for even 10 years if properly looked after and cared for.

All our customers are briefed on clock care after their clocks are worked on.

If you are seeking to have your clock worked on ensure that anyone who works on your clock is equipped with the right equipment to conduct such repairs.

Screw drivers and tweezers, spanners and sharp points may be sufficient for adjustments, but repairs and full service requires  a full set of equipment and good and present day state of the art.

At The Old Cloxhibhition our dedicated Repair workshop has all that.

Contact: email: oldcloxhibhition@gmail.com

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