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The Grandfather Clock Owner?s Repair Manual, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along
The Grandfather Clock Owner?s Repair Manual, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along
The Grandfather Clock Owner?s Repair Manual, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along
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The Grandfather Clock Owner?s Repair Manual

The most comprehensive Grandfather Clock Repair Book. Brand New for 2023. Perfect for Grandfather clock owners or professional Clock Repairers. Hundreds of photos and diagrams.

  • Do you own a clock that is special to you that has stopped working, perhaps a gift or a family heirloom? This book is for you.
  • Do you like to tinker with mechanical things? This book is for you.
  • Have you taken a clock apart but can't get it back together? This book is for you.
  • Are you fascinated with clocks, have several you have bought but do not work? This book is for you.

Be bold. Take on your project. This book will hold your hand every step of the way and guide you to success. YOU CAN DO IT.


Why does a Grandfather Clock Stop Working? Often, the works are dirty, need oiling, or most likely, both. When the clock stops, think of it as "the oil light is on". It's a "cry for help". Without oil, the metal parts grind on each other, causing severe wear and damage. Oil also attracts dust which can make the oil "gummy' and add drag to its operation until it can no longer overcome the friction. If a clock is oiled regularly [every three to five years], chances are you will only ever need to re-oil your clock. If the clock is allowed to run until it stops, the only sure way to service it is to remove the works from its case, dismantle the parts, clean, service, and put the movement back together with fresh oil and correct adjustment.
This book will teach you how to do all this.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherD. Rod Lloyd
Release dateJan 1, 2023
ISBN9798215191088
The Grandfather Clock Owner?s Repair Manual, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along
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D. Rod Lloyd

As a kid, whenever I saw an old clock at a jumble sale or going cheap, I would buy it and take it apart to see how it worked. I don’t think I ever got one back together again, but I enjoyed tinkering with them. Twenty years later when I was getting married, now living in the USA, Auntie Florrie wrote to me saying I could now have my Grandfathers clock. I arranged to have the clock shipped over and it was proudly placed in the entrance hall to my home. It was built in about 1880 in Maghull England by a local clockmaker, [before the electric light was invented], had a stately mahogany case, hand-painted dial and ran nicely. After a few years, it stopped. I was frustrated that I didn’t know what was wrong with it or how to get it going. I ended up having it serviced by a local repair shop and it ran again. I was fascinated with the clock. In 1995, my family decided to spend a year in England including putting the kids in school. It was a big challenge to arrange to swap houses with an English family. Finally, we were settled, and the kids started school, my wife was volunteering at a local charity shop and suddenly I had time on my hands. I read the paper that morning and came across an ad for a clock course starting nearby at Manchester City College. I called the college and they told me it was a three-year course, one day per week. I explained I was only in the country for one year, so I persuaded them to let me take the course, coming all three days. I enjoyed the course and did very well. The final exam took several weeks, making a ‘suspension bridge’ from scratch to exact specifications, restoring several old clocks and watches. I documented the process and took the extensive final written exam all set by BHI [British Horological Institute]. I did pass the exams and became a Horologist. 25 years later I teach clock repair classes and ‘pass it on’. This is the class workbook.

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