Clocky Horror Show

This ships clock came into the workshop, it had dropped off the wall, no damage to the case but the movement was bent out of shape.

We can fix this.....

When you can't get your clock to work, probably because it hasn't been serviced for 50 years, you wind the pendulum up (to give it a really big boost), and damage the suspension spring, now it will never work! How it should look below...

Obviously something had slipped on this clock, it came in as a non-runner, and once it was apart, it was easy to see why.  A fair bit of dentistry was needed to get this movement working again.

This American wall clock was not running because of a botched repair, where the rods had slipped out of the lantern pinion.

Did we get this cuckoo clock working?

Yes we did!

And this is why we wear gloves!

This is why we always remove the mainsprings and inspect them, a few more winds and the sring would have fully snapped, causing major damage to the movement