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By Dave, December 6, 2011 11:24 pm

Seth Thomas seems to be regulated to within a few seconds an hour. Working on a cuckoo clock now. Got to order new chains for it.

Which is gonna have to be close enough on a clock this old.

Well took the mech out of the case and after tweeking the fiddley bits this way and that a few dozen times got it within about 30 seconds.

Well, twas on both hour and half hour but the adjustment I thought I could make without taking it all apart didn’t work. So on to plan b…

Correct that last bit. Tis on the minute shaft rather than the hour tube. 🙁

Both is a fairly simple adjustment, but if only one of them, may involve taking the whole thing back apart to bend an arm on the hour tube.

Problem it’s having now is the hour strike is about 2 minutes after. Waiting for the half hour strike to see if they are both that far off.

Trying to finalise the repairs on the Seth Thomas clock. Getting closer. Have the movement in the case and in beat or close to it.

Cleaned the woodburning stove firebox out and rebuilt a fire, then fixed supper. Been browsing and reading feeds in between doing stuff.

Managed to get the arse outside before sundown and get the legs for the 2nd stool done. Somewhat chipped the top down but still more to do.