#clockdoc

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A beauty of a clock to work on, over a hundred years old but one of the most solidly constructed ones i've seen to date.

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If you've ever wondered how a 31 day clock runs 31 days... it takes a lot of winding, and springs long enough to floss a whale!

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An uncommon form of repair nowadays (for good reason, it ruins the material integrity and causes later wear to be worse) "Punching" is a method of fixing an oblongated hole by using a stake and hammer to push material surrounding the pivot hole into the worn out portion, then filing it back to round with a fraise.

This clock has seen extensive punching repairs in the past, so i'm replacing the worn pivot holes with new bushings to fix the material weakness introduced by so many punches.

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Sometimes, it can be hard to figure out why a clock has suddenly stopped working. Othertimes....

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Sometimes, it can be hard to tell if a clock has been lubricated properly. Othertimes, you can find enough grease under one panel to properly lubricate the entire clock on its own.

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Sometimes you take a picture for work and it slaps so hard you gotta share it elsewhere. Steev here is helping keep a skeleton clock on it's standwhile i run some tests on it.

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I love working on old pocket watches like this, there are 9 signatures from previous work performed on this one.

(I had to put dots beside them to track them all!)

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If you've ever wondered just how big a clock's springs are, these two came out of a sessions mantle clock and are each almost two and a half meters long! (~7'11" in imperial units)