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SkunkPrince
·When you pay a couple few hundred for an excellent condition Beg Ben from the 1946 to 1949 period, it shouldn't be hard to wind and it shouldn't run 10 minutes a day slow, and then stop.
I am by no means an expert, here, but even I know when a mainspring is bone dry and so is the escapement. Greased the mainspring, oiled the escapement (I even used real clock oil). The amplitude went from barely 180° to an estimated more than 240°.
Easy to wind, and it's keeping good time for what it is. These things aren't temperature compensated and are good for maybe 4 minutes a day, though I usually get better than that. Fortunately the only tool you need is the appropriate screwdriver and a pair of pliers to grab the inside end of the mainspring to get it out. You don't need anythiing special to get the mainspring back in the barrel.
Really makes me not want to send more clocks to him, but there aren't many people who do this kind of thing anymore.
I am by no means an expert, here, but even I know when a mainspring is bone dry and so is the escapement. Greased the mainspring, oiled the escapement (I even used real clock oil). The amplitude went from barely 180° to an estimated more than 240°.
Easy to wind, and it's keeping good time for what it is. These things aren't temperature compensated and are good for maybe 4 minutes a day, though I usually get better than that. Fortunately the only tool you need is the appropriate screwdriver and a pair of pliers to grab the inside end of the mainspring to get it out. You don't need anythiing special to get the mainspring back in the barrel.
Really makes me not want to send more clocks to him, but there aren't many people who do this kind of thing anymore.
