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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 531050, member: 360"]Nonstop winding without any appreciable tightening or ever ending means the mainspring is snapped, or has otherwise separated company from the mainspring barrel. You'll need to take it to a clockmaker to get a new spring. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it just won't wind at all, it's probably because someone else wound it up tight and jammed the mechanism (or rather, the mechanism jammed itself, due to lack of oil). If wiggling and jiggling doesn't get the balance ticking, then back to the clockmaker. An exploding mainspring is NOT fun (I had the alarm spring on my alarm-clock once do that, it was NOT pleasant and quite painful...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 531050, member: 360"]Nonstop winding without any appreciable tightening or ever ending means the mainspring is snapped, or has otherwise separated company from the mainspring barrel. You'll need to take it to a clockmaker to get a new spring. If it just won't wind at all, it's probably because someone else wound it up tight and jammed the mechanism (or rather, the mechanism jammed itself, due to lack of oil). If wiggling and jiggling doesn't get the balance ticking, then back to the clockmaker. An exploding mainspring is NOT fun (I had the alarm spring on my alarm-clock once do that, it was NOT pleasant and quite painful...)[/QUOTE]
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