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My Clock Won?t Run, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along
My Clock Won?t Run, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along
My Clock Won?t Run, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along
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My Clock Won?t Run, Step by Step No Prior Experience Required: Clock Repair you can Follow Along

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  • 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 don't 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.

Mechanical clocks are now considered works of art, a part of history, a part of the family, and they also need love.

Sooner or later, your treasured timepiece will stop. Your choice is to either live with it in silence or go to a hard to find a clock repair shop, leave it for weeks and pay perhaps hundreds of dollars to get it back, hopefully working.

The fact is, you can more than likely do the same thing they do, by yourself. There are little-known items that stop a clock that you can easily do yourself for little or no money.

You can service any mechanical pendulum clock: Grandfather Clocks, Mantel Clocks, Wall Clocks, Kitchen Clocks, French Clocks, Cuckoo Clocks, 400-day etc. No special tools are needed besides oil which I will tell you where to buy very inexpensively.

I will teach you how to service your own clock.

 

I will take you from winding your clock correctly all the way to restoring vintage clocks.

I taught for many years, a clock repair class for beginners. I used this book as my class workbook. I have included all the common student mistakes and answered all the common questions.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherD. Rod Lloyd
Release dateDec 30, 2022
ISBN9798215196960
My Clock Won?t Run, 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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