You lot know something about everything.
I have an Enfield mantle clock from before they became Smiths Enfield. It was Granny's but now graces my shelves. Unfortunately it no longer ticks.
I can wind it, and it will run with the pendulum off, but not with it on (like not at all, I can't even get to run for long enough to try to set the beat).
What might the best approach be to cleaning - take the guts out and hose it with brake cleaner (or something like...). What's the likely cost of having it looked at?
I'm confident to unwind the springs, dismantle and reassemble, but would just be going through the motions of that, with no real knowledge of likely issues to look for.
are you sure it is level?
Hi Charlie, yes - I should have said, though.
What might the best approach be to cleaning
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Might I add that it is of sentimental value.
My gran had a beautiful art deco clock which I loved (I love anything art deco), and she left it too me when she died. At that point it didn't work. I know that a lot of people will slate me for this, but I just ripped out the workings and put a modern mechanism in. It now sits on the mantlepiece and tells the right time, and I love to look at it. I couldn't give a monkeys that it doesn't have the appropriate internals 😀
before you take it apart have a look on you tube for the video which shows how to set a clock in beat. may be a simple fix
My grandmother's one was very temperamental. Really did not like being moved.
Sat on the mantlepiece for years as a defunct ornament, until a visitor complained about the clock never showing the right time, and they obviously had the right knack when they adjusted it.
Worked for a decade and then just stopped again.
But that clock was well travelled (Switzerland and Germany for sure).
It hasn't worked since my mother inherited it.
bookmarks for future reference....
I've got a lovely vienna regulator which I inherited from my late father - he was a bit of a clock buff, and he struggled to get it to go sometimes. me... can't get it to go at all. level (side to side, front to back) but will not go.
Makes a lovely piece of wall art, but would be extra useful if it told the time more than twice a day*
is it only me who's reminded of the opening scene of Withnail - even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day...
nope, not just you.
Or the track from the Orbital Brown album which samples said film 😉
Planet of the shapes?
I thought this was about Boris and Saudi Arabia...
And for once I'm inclined to believe that Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell...
(Thanks Op, just got my film for after my ride tonight)
GT85 🙂
[pedant] It's a stopped clock. My daughter bounced a basketball off the clock hanging on the wall in the garden, and knocked it onto the floor. A broken clock doesn't tell the time at all, unless 10 past the garden furniture is a valid answer.
F%%ker's most definitely NOT alive.
Thanks jekkyl.... like you, I think that's sorted this evening's viewing. Hopefully Mrs Sheeps will be working late and not play her veto.
I have just been called a ponce!
I have a heart condition, if you hit me it's murder.
[quote=bencooper ]I thought this was about Boris and Saudi Arabia...
me too
and me