Re: Repair nightmares.
One of my hobbies is collecting and repairing mechanical clocks. Some of the ones I buy are sold as non working.
One of my pet hates is when someone has tried to repair a clock without understanding how a clock functions. I wish people wouldn't oil clock mechanisms with oil. It would be so much easier to get working. One I had recently was a very nice 60's Smiths floating balance mantel clock and the oil was absolutely everywhere in it. More like being dunked in very old three in one oil.
I have done several which have been lubricated and the volatile part of the oil evaporates leaving an almost varnish like substance stuck to all of the pivots, pinions and wheels and it takes me a long time with cocktail sticks pegging out all of the holes in the plates and getting rid of the well stuck on muck in the pinions. Its a long job... but I enjoy it as I have a working clock at the end of the day!
Christopher Capener
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Interests in the collection and restoration of Tefifon players and 405 line television
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