It's a clock that's come back from a previous service that I did. It may be my fault for giving it the quick horolene bath treatment. The thing is, it is the cheapest, feeblest mass produced clock I have ever seen. It came to me with not much wrong with it. It just struggled going. But as the movement sat there for a week or two on my dresser table various other things kept sneaking up on me, some were quite perplexing. Well whats happening now is the chiming side does not want to go. I think (I hope) it is just the levers catching on each other. They are so thin and flimsy. So the movement is coming out of its case for the umpteenth time.
The big question: do I replace the three springs? In a clock not worth £10.
Notice my nicely silvered dial? :)
ReplyDeleteWell your not going to believe this. I gently removed the movement from the case and sure enough with a prod and a poke the chimes would not go.
ReplyDeleteAll the time I did not notice, all it was, was one of the hammers had crossed over one of the others! I must be more gentle when fumbling about in the back.
Still the question is posed: Do I service this properley or shall I risk it?
I don't want to spend any time on it.