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<p>[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 441774, member: 8569"]I'm really not an expert about English clocks design but I repair them for a lot of reasons as "official" offices can't make escapement wheels or cut a pinion, repair broken teeth etc…</p><p>I have seen a lot of modifications, sometimes the worst possible, your seems to be in very good condition then for the weights you have to try with the small possible and go by 100 grams until it functions.</p><p>Use water bottle filled with sand for your tests, this is the simplest way, on the last clock of this type I've repaired, it was about 3 pounds-1,5 kilos for the principal weight and modifying profile of the first wheel give me too much amplitude(pendulum touch the wood on each side), now it functions with only 750 grams perfectly…[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lecollectionneur, post: 441774, member: 8569"]I'm really not an expert about English clocks design but I repair them for a lot of reasons as "official" offices can't make escapement wheels or cut a pinion, repair broken teeth etc… I have seen a lot of modifications, sometimes the worst possible, your seems to be in very good condition then for the weights you have to try with the small possible and go by 100 grams until it functions. Use water bottle filled with sand for your tests, this is the simplest way, on the last clock of this type I've repaired, it was about 3 pounds-1,5 kilos for the principal weight and modifying profile of the first wheel give me too much amplitude(pendulum touch the wood on each side), now it functions with only 750 grams perfectly…[/QUOTE]
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