Clock Cleaning, Troubleshooting Timing Problems

[@Elektrikvik_74]

Love these smaller Urgos movements. They are for sure built to last if they are maintained well enough!

[@rehorneman]

Another excellent video! I always look forward to your videos, I always learn from them.

[@rutapettit9521]

I have a UW32/1A model 127E Ridgeway grandmother clock (Lady Lexington?) that is almost identical but the timing was off. I thought I was going to have to reach out to you, but then found this! My exact problem (well one). SOLVED!!! I still had to tweak the hands, chimes ran 5-10 min late. But now I think it's running right! I'm so happy! I got this at an estate sale and had to buy the weights. You're cleaning kit was a life saver! Never did anything like this before but your videos are invaluable! Thank you! ( sorry I ran on).

[@rhjgold]

Thanks so much, I enjoy hearing the success stories that have developed through the video lessons we put together. The Bench Jeweler Mike E.

[@djhscorp]

Excellent explanation. Thanks for taking the time to produce good content.😀

[@gordonrichardson4428]

Good Explanation,would definitely recommend

[@michaelmoritz7529]

Love what you do 👍🏻

[@joanngrubb6583]

My Howard Martin grandfather clock keeps perfect time, chimes perfectly. I have it striking at 6 o clock perfectly, than at 7 it strikes 5, at 8 it strikes 4 something is causing the strike to count down instead of up. I have just finished cleaning and oiling it, is there something I set wrong putting it back together?

[@jamesnicholson3313]

Thankyou for such a good demo of adjustment and timing of this movement, very interesting, I 've been working on a British Enfield Westminster clock with the most frustrating chiming gear problems in the train, I have to say this one is my nemesis as it will go beautifully for a day or 2 then BINGO when any of the protrusions on the center arbor activate the warning wheel the gear train all of a sudden develops friction and won't chime, even though I rebushed a lot of pivots in the top of the train, anyhow I will persist until I find the problem, I wellcome any suggestions once again many thanks. Jim from AUSTRALIA.

[@rhjgold]

You really need to check for a bent pivot or a flat on the pivot or both bent pivot and wobbling gear. You may have to remove the rest of the gear train and work with only the chime gears to find the friction. I hate problems like this. Super Nice to hear from Australia. The Bench Jeweler.

[@rhjgold]

Did you discover the problem on the gear train, I'm betting you have a very slightly bent gear pivot causing the problem. Just checking to see if your fixed or found the problem. The Bench Jeweler.

[@Mariette-Swart]

I have a Hermle Grandfather clock with Westminister chime - Hermle 461053 H K 23. For a long time it was working well, but then the chiming stopped. I discovered that the chiming drum was turning, but it moved sligtly to the right and didn't catch the hammers. So I put a small spacer in on the right hand side of the chiming drum and then it stayed in position and I could hear the chiming. In the proses I did something, (can't figure out what) and now I sit with a problem: It doesn't chime at the 1/4 or the half or the 3/4, but when the minute hand gets to the hour it chimes the 4 notes, the 8 notes, the 12 notes and the16 notes without stopping in between and it will strike once with the 12 notes and then once with the 16 notes and then it stops.The same thing happens on every hour. I've spent hours trying to fix it and I watched all your videos, but nothing changed. Do you have some advice for me please?

[@zohradanicosta3624]

Hi Is there any way that I can purchase a kit to clean and oil my grandfather clock by you

[@patrickcasey330]

I have a 1984 Howard Milley Grandfather clock. It chimes sporadically. The chiming is triggered by a cam (4 lobes) on the main shaft. But that shaft has play in it, and I am 99% sure that play is causing the chiming issue. Is that fixable?

[@rhjgold]

If the bushing is bad and can be taken apart and a new bushing installed requires special tooling. There is probably more bushing in the gear train that will need to be checked and fixed. Is your clock a cable with a crank up or pull up with chains? The Bench Jeweler.

[@patrickcasey330]

@@rhjgold It's a chain drive - Hermle movement . . . 451-050H 94CM pendelum swing. I have gotten estimates for close to 600 bucks to fix. They all say replace the movement . . . . Their quotes are on a movement without the chimes. Yet I can find these movments for 350 or so . . . with chimes. Seems like kind of a waste to ditch the whole thing when it could be rebuilt. But I don't know about clocks. I can rebuild a motocycle engine easily though!

[@rhjgold]

@@patrickcasey330 I don't know what the new movements run these days. You don't need the chimes just the movement. We replace or rebuild them for 450 dollars on average, including parts if required. If this is a Grandfather clock you already have the chime rods. I'm thinking you just need to have the clock re-bushed. The Bench Jeweler...Mike E.

[@SMWBraden]

Can you help please. I have an Emperor Grandfather clock with Westminster Chimes that my grandparents bought in like 1972. For a long time it kept perfect time chiming each quarter hour and then chiming the 16 notes on the hour and then striking the hour. I wound it a few days ago and nor for reasons I cannot figure out and cannot find anything on the internet about it strikes the hour at the first quarter hour. For instance at one o'clock it will strike the 16 note chime then stop. at 1:15 it will strike the four notes of the tune and then strike the hour. The chime strike on perfect time but the hour always strikes on the first quarter. What have I done? Can this be fixed? Thank you.

[@rhjgold]

Darn, it has something to do with the lift arm cam on the strike. On the full hour, the chimes play, and then on the last for notes, the lift arm should come all the way up and trip the strike cam and run the strike chime. So one of the cams is out of line. Without watching the front movement move without the dial on I'm not sure what's causing it.

[@SMWBraden]

@@rhjgold Thank you for your response I think I need to get someone to look at it.

[@rhjgold]

Yes, it's not a hard fix but needs someone who knows clockwork. Something in the cams slipped causing the problem. Mike E the bench jeweler.

[@josephkinser3590]

I have ridgeway grandfather clock that has quit chiming. Can you help me out

[@rhjgold]

Is this a cable with crank up weights or chain pull up weights? Movement number is on the back of the movement.

[@josephkinser9313]

it is chain driven. it has weights that you can remove at the bottom of each wait it is mark with r, c ,l

[@miketjdickey2954]

I have a ridgeway it works fine but when it comes on the hour it strikes 3 times at 5 o'clock it should strikes 5 times for 5 o'clock how do I fix this

[@rhjgold]

On the hour is the strike off every hour or just at the 5 o'clock hour? The Bench Jeweler.