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<p>[QUOTE="Roaring20s, post: 4404752, member: 17270"]WD40 is not clock oil and should never be used on any fine instrument. Larger stuff like a car door is fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>These clocks are valued in the $75 to $150 range, so you're not going to kill its value by sprucing it up. It is safe to say that this movement is just gummed up from age. I had two such clocks over the years, the works simply unscrew from the case. I bathed it in ammonia (lightly agitating the gears from side to side on its pinions) to dissolve the old grease. Then a rinse in hot water and dried completely with a hair drier. Apply a tiny dot of clock oil on each pinion. Place it back in the case and test it out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roaring20s, post: 4404752, member: 17270"]WD40 is not clock oil and should never be used on any fine instrument. Larger stuff like a car door is fine. These clocks are valued in the $75 to $150 range, so you're not going to kill its value by sprucing it up. It is safe to say that this movement is just gummed up from age. I had two such clocks over the years, the works simply unscrew from the case. I bathed it in ammonia (lightly agitating the gears from side to side on its pinions) to dissolve the old grease. Then a rinse in hot water and dried completely with a hair drier. Apply a tiny dot of clock oil on each pinion. Place it back in the case and test it out.[/QUOTE]
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