Help with Ingrahm black mantle clock adjustment

Hi,
I know AF is here. I used to go to the old ebay watch board but now I can not find my way there.. My Ingraham 8 day black mantle clock is driving me nuts. It is striking 5 mins before the minute hand reaches the hour. How do I adjust? I can not adjust the hand since it only fits on one way. I used to know (I think). Thanks,
greg

 

Has the clock had a severe disturbance? Maybe being knocked over onto its front? During your recent bird incursion maybe?

 

Hi AF,
No disturbance. It started right after Christmas. In the back of my mind I think I remember about moving the hand backwards to reset it? I am not going to do it unless someone better informed about it tells me to. It was one of the first things I bought as a kid thinking I would buy and sell antiques. It is really my baby though most people think it is junk and ugly.
greg

 

The easiest correction may be to pull the minute hand off and place back on where it chimes.

 

Hi Terry,
The hands have a rectangular slit so you can not adjust it for 5mins just 30 mins.
greg

 

Greg,
I don't have the answer, but is this the ebay board you wanted to find:
http://community.ebay.com/t5/Watches-Clocks-and-Timepieces/bd-p/22014

 

It sounds asif the relative positions of the hour and minute wheels behind the dial have moved 1 tooth relative to each other.

I hesitate to prescribe things I'd try myself, because I'd know what I was feeling for and someone else might not,but if you pull the hub of the minute hand forward slightly you may be able to rotate it forwards 5 minutes and let it slipback into position. I realise the hand is on a square and cannot be moved relatve tothe hub, I am not suggesting this. Pulling the hub forward or just possibly pushing it back disengages the wheels behind the dial and allows a relative adjustment.

This is not supposed to happen,but movements of the type and vintage I think this one is have a fair amount of slack between parts that sometimes allows little wheezes to work.

After all, it had to get deranged somehow, and generally, setting the time is the only way any dislocation could have happened in the firsrt place.

 

A similar clock was my very first bought-by-me antique! And it strikes one ahead (or one behind). I forget which. I have not kept it running as I was always late or early -- numbers are not my thing!

And Af, I don't know about Greg's clock, but mine is so heavy it would take a major earthquake to even shift it, let alone causing it to fall forward.

 

Hi AF,
I'll try that.
Hi Charlotte,
Thanks for the site.
Hi Silver,
AF was thinking of my wren experence. Did you read it?????
greg

 

Wren? As in Wrobbin?

 

Hi Silver,
Search for wren problem aka Ricky's lunch.
greg

 

Greg.....every clock or watch in this house seems to be 5 minutes fast.
My wife does that....& I try changing them back ...and then who knows what the hell time it is !!!!

Your clock would feel right at home here !!!

 

Hi AF,
Thanks for your advice. It took a little thinking and testing but your suggestion worked after several tries. It is now back to normal. I have two clocks that strike and one chimer. I try and keep them going off one after a another. I have two regulators that do not strike but the ticking is very loud. I have friends that sleep over occasionally. The ticking of the 5 clocks drives them crazy so I shut them off when they stay. I do not heard them but I am aware when one stops. I tell my friends it could be worse, like this photo.
greg

 

Ack!

 

Glad it worked, long distance clock advice does depend on the advisee being reasonably clued up already.

 

I LOVE the sound of ticking clocks..reminds me when I was a kid and our mantel clock ticked very loud. On the landing to my bedroom upstairs was another mantel clock,a Westminister chime and I loved hearing it chime.
I still have both clocks today.

 

LOL! Shiloh -- my grandmother was a musician who had perfect pitch and an innate sense of where music should go. Much as she loved us, visiting at our home was an exquisite torture for her. My parents had a Westminster chime clock which was kept in the dining room. My grandmother's room was as far away as possible, but, although the clock really wasn't very loud, in the country quiet of the night it could be heard anywhere in the house.

My poor grandmother! She managed to sleep through the hour, the quarter-after, and the half-after, but the quarter-of woke her every time. The music ends on an unfinished (something -- I am not a musician so I forget the terminology), and she absolutely HAD to wait for the finish. She would come down to breakfast looking as if she had slept on a fence post!

 

Hi,
Another piece of useless trivia that I can not forget.
Words to the Westminster chime.
Lord through this hour
Be thou our guide
So by thy power
No foot shall slide
greg

 

Not to be sung at baseball games!

Never knew about the words.

 

My folks had a mantle clock....that's now in my storage room.
Big heavy metal sucker...of no great accord.....but it was so loud that after the 1st couple of weeks....they never used it again.