Cool video! :)

Am I the only one who found the background music vaguely "Charlie Brown"? 😁

100% on the face shield! Traditionally, bellows were also made using thin leather strips. In the clock, paper is probably better. I imagine that a drawing paper would also suit. Go look at Accordion repair since that's the same system they use. The thing about the gears is that it picks up dirt and that dirt, combined with the grease, acts as an abrasive paste and actually accelerates wear. Same problem with over oiling pivots. Don't want an excess of oil to suck dirt into the pivots and wear them out.

Great restoration & great improvement in the hour chime 👍

Awesome, need more people repairing these. Have that almost identical clock. Paid a so called expert $400 to repair it. Still didn't stay running. Guy is a loon in my opinion. Tracked me down 3 years later like he was CIA because I left him a bad review. Wish I had seen this video beforehand.

Good job restoring I have a Seth Thomas steeple clock from 1923

Maybe a short ultrasonic bath in an oil eater solution would have been good before you started taking the movement apart. 🤮 11:00 Also allows easier precise adjustment vs trying to move the bob screw and upsetting the position of the bob above it. 2 pts for that! 12:05 Also really cool! Another 2 pts for Griffendor! 😁 15:50 I'm looking at that and wondering it you can maybe think "tower of Hanoi" and push the center bits out vertically to be able to access more of the surface area. First one way, then the other. Won't be a complete job, but better than nothing. 24:30 Probably gravity. Betting someone sprayed oil inside and the chime was not wound for many an era and that's where the oil collected, on the lower side. 37:05 It's also a legitimate part of the clock's repair history. Personally, I'd be inclined to replace it, or at least file on it or something to try to clean it up, but as you say, if it works, it can stay.

You can buy spring clams for cheap

This is a friendly reminder don’t put water on a wood case use furniture oil

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Some Simple Green in the water with the vibrasonic cleaner would clean those up real nice ... Thanks for sharing.. Btw, where in Canada is Dave from, could use someone local to look and Grandads Seth Thomas?

i'm in bristol right now, we made these. trillions of seconds ago.

I have that same clock. About to toss it in the trash.

Hello, I need advice for a movement 35 regula. The effect’s mechanism is always under a bad position, how can I fix it? I tried a minutes ago, to blocked with the « visse de l’aiguille » (sorry I am French) And for now, it is working…. But I don’t know if it is gonna working for long, and most « au moment du remontage des poids » Can you help me ?

the probleme in my clock, it ring before time in less than a quater, and for half time it rings in passed 18mnt

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Great video. you taught this Canadian a lot. How did you keep track of the parts as you dismantled the clock? Memory? pictures? written notes?

2:09 those uneven spacing in the mainspring indicate the spring is improperly lubricated or the lubricant dried off so it was well overdue for servicing good thing you were able to get to it before more damage was done to the movement for letting it run like that! 👍

Very nice job looking very good!!!👍👌💯

I just bought a clock like that,but there is no pendulum where would I buy one?

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I have retrieved a similar clock from storage, that was purchased new by my parents in 1959. The casing is identical, although the mechanics are different, mine has a countwheel on the striking train, which unfortunately is locked up. The clock train itself is working and it does keep good time however

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How did you do the beat rate

The gong or chime sounds wonderful, so rich and nice quality sounding. If you can disassemble something and then reassemble it without any extra parts left over when you finish, and it works as originally intended,than that's a win IMHO. Thanks for the video.

From DK. Your are doing af very nice job and tou explain in a good way. Keep on, I will follow you from now on. / Best Erik

@Obsidian369 0 seconds ago You would like to tell yourself that about the main spring. It probably was a demon Spirit messing with you to make you jump! It sounds awful. Strange that Grease would be sticky to cause it to jump like that. No way... it would have done it by then!

Please please slow slow your video ok ?

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Before your Next clock repair learn how to do bushings and Polish pivots to ensure your repair lasts long there’s plenty of KZbin videos showing how to do it by hand anyways great videos and I hope to see your next repair one of these days 👍

I always polish the plates, Clean the inside of the case, Polish the pinions, check and rebush, (I know you mentioned that) I never use water, unless there is an important reason. Your fold on the bellow does not allow it to compress, you may need to Skive it. So its weak on the Co. Ok on the Koo, it takes a long time to learn skills and almost always it's the hard way, but very good effort , for a newbie it's a fun Profession, and always in demand

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I believe that there's a chance that gas emitted from the failed capacitor tends to dry out the movements lubrication. Seiko have a list of recommended products to address this issue and prevent premature capacitor failure.

Would you be interested in working on my cuckoo clock, please, sir, most of the clock works hours minutes. It has a carousel and cuckoo and one of those will not engage when the weight is pulled up.

Reviewing plans to make one soon. And thank you very much for listing parts/packaging. Very nice!

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Hey man, I just found your channel and this video has been a real blast. I wanted to ask if you have any insight because I'm sure American clocks have roughly the same mechanisms, such as the striking hammer having three levers on its arbor. ive eug around and I cant find very much about this part specifically. So I found a Sessions movement in pieces and it came with the striking hammer outside the movement. When I put everything back together and allow it to strike, the hammer bounces a lot each time it strikes. In this Seth Thomas, the hammer has no recoil. Is one of the three levers on the hammer meant to counter this recoil or is that the job of the spring wire? If you can respond, I'd be very happy.

New to the hobby and glad I found your channel. I’ve picked up a handful of these over the last few weeks. Will definitely be using your video in my learning process.

Enjoyed watching this video as it gave me "courage" to continue to repair a Seth Thomas mechanism identified only by 5 7/8 and 1/2 stamped on the front plate. I'm just learning the art of horology and have made mistakes, er, learning opportunities. I'll continue to search KZbin for more clock repair videos but have saved this video to file.

The antlers are on the wrong side, and you shouldn't have glued the antlers in. other wise looks good.

You make it look all so easy. In this day and age there's no one around who can help and quite me safely through all this process. You're video maybe of some help and it has answered some of my questions.

You make it look so easy when there's no one to train with and guide you through the tough bitts.

This is why if a supposed "clock maker" gives too low of a price to do a thorough svc. They're only gonna over oil pivots, not disassemble and potentially damage your clock. This profession takes expertise, tools and time to complete. First to diagnose,disassemble/ clean /rebush, if necessary. Then after assembly they have to let your clock run and make needed adjustments. A watchmaker clockmaker has to charge for all of this, unless they owe you a favor or something.

I have inherited a clock from my dad. He got it from his parents who got it from my great-grandparents. It’s a clock manufactured by Wm. L. Gilbert clock company. As far as I can tell in the research I’ve done, it was made around 1905. My dad talks about it and how he remembers how it chimed. He unfortunately has severe COPD. I wish I could have it repaired before he passes but it’s impossible to find any clock restoration business where I live. 😟

Does he know what he is doing with the tweezers?😂 Nice tweezer technique

I am interested in the details of how you put the clock in beat and adjusted the beat rate. I have an old Sessions wall clock that is my first find that I am working through. First working through the mechanicals to get it running long enough to uncover and understand its issues. I am unsure if the pendulum is original, which may be part of my problem. I have been unable to locate enough information to identify the clock. If you provide pointers in that area too, that would help. Great video! I learn as I do, similar to the spirit of this video.