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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 44414, member: 25"]It sounds asif the relative positions of the hour and minute wheels behind the dial have moved 1 tooth relative to each other. </p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 44414, member: 25"]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.[/QUOTE]
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