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By Dave, December 7, 2011 11:00 pm

Got the strike side pivots and one more bushing left to do. Tired of standing in the cold at the lathe polishing pivots so taking a break.

Went ahead and put the time side together when I got all the wheels for it done. Tis hanging on the wall and ticking away now!

Both springs taken down, checked, put back on, and rewound. Figure another 2 to 3 hours and it should be back together and running.

Have polished the pivots on 3 of the wheels so far, and have 5 or 6 more to go. One pivot replaced with 2 more to do.

So I’m fixing it. Took the wheel apart and cleaned the cut teeth up and added a shim to move the bad area out of line with the other wheel.

So the guy with the Korean clock didn’t want it fixed and gave it to me. Got to looking at it and decided to gain even more experience.

Guess I need to call the guy and tell him the good news.

One of the wheels wore the bushing to the point it allowed the teeth to unmesh and then acted like a sawblade on the mating teeth.

As I suspected this Korean clock is not worth the repair. Very poor finishing procedures in the factory. They did no polishing on pivots.

Got a Korean clock torn down and in the ultrasonic now. Not sure it’s worth the time but I guess the experience counts for something.

Sounds of clocks ticking and the buzz of the ultrasonic are almost drowning out the rain and wind.

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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.

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By Dave, December 5, 2011 10:22 pm

Compared to Winn Dixie they are not bad. WW has them beat on most stuff. Trying to get the initiative to go out and do stuff. Failing…

Stopped at WW on the way down and then at Publix on the way back to see what the prices looked like. Compared to Foodland they be high.

Back from the southland. Twas a fairly quick trip, just down to take stuff to Cat’s mom and pick up some other stuff.

Trailer unloaded. Rest of firewood cut, hauled, and stacked. Showered and soon heading south to deliver stuff we forgot to take Saturday.

If the rain holds off long enough tomorrow morning, I want to cut a tree to make a pole lathe out of. If I can still move when I get up. 😉

Drilled the leg holes and got one leg somewhat round and almost ready to drive in place. 3 more legs and a little more smoothing and done.

After getting the load back a friend came over and we sat a talked a bit so while sitting I split another stool seat out and flattened it.

Cat hauled and stacked while I cut. Afterwards had to make a trip to get milk. Then supper when we got back. Am somewhere past beat.

Was dark or getting that way when we got to the point of unloading so rigged a light and then cut about half the load into firewood lengths.

Got a trailer load of wood drug back to the compound. Mostly 6+ foot long pieces of cedar. This stuff has been dead for 15 to 20 years.

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By Dave, December 4, 2011 8:24 pm

Somewhere in there also did a bit more work on the ST clock. Think I have about got it in beat and chiming at the right points now.

Or as much as I can get in the daylight I’ve got left. Also restacked the existing firewood piles and put tin on top for the coming rain.

Cleaned the deck of the trailer of leaves and crap from last year. Am beat. Yet am heading to the woods to cut a trailer full of firewood.

Sharpened the chain on the chainsaw. Cleaned it’s air filter and filled oil and fuel. Added 4 gallons of fuel to the tractor too.

Cleaned the fuel filters out and added some oil. Changed the off the rim trailer tire. Aired the tractor and trailer tires up.

Guess I’ll take the rest out and bore them through so they all match. 😉 Charged the tractor battery and got it started.

Split 4 more smaller pieces and made the legs. Drilled the 4 holes with the hand auger and pounded the legs in. Went through with one. 🙁

Long day already. Split the remaining log rounds in half and moved to the 10×20. Split a piece off of one and made a stool seat.

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By Dave, December 3, 2011 6:01 am

Filed square holes in 2 brass cup washers to mount the minute hand so it doesn’t flop. Still ticking very nicely. Half hour chime correct.

That done, maybe I can sleep now. Or at least in a little while as am now gonna have to unwind a bit… 😉

The bent part was in the levers. After it all looked like it should work, it did! Have now oiled it and it’s ticking happily away.

Couldn’t stand it. Went back to the clock and figured out what had to go where in the gear train and then what had to be bent and how much.

Gonna call it a night and start on it again in the morning. Maybe it will be magically working when I get to it tomorrow… 😉

And since this was part of it’s problem when it came in, the pictures I took when disassembling it don’t help much either. 🙁

Got a book on it but the pictures it has don’t show the critical linkages clearly enough to help.

And with stuff bent when I got the clock. Think I have most of it back aligned and straightened but may have to see another one to be sure.

Got the clock back together. Now trying to get my head wrapped around the strike stop portion. Nothing like gears and levers out of sync.

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By Dave, December 2, 2011 8:48 pm

Now to take a few pictures of the cleaned and repaired pieces and then start the reassembly process. After a cup of coffee and a walk.

Just got the last piece of the Seth Thomas out of the ultrasonic, washed in alcohol and dried. Got another movement in cleaning now.

That’s start over after taking all I had put on off as well as removing the rest of the old. Have got one coat back on & drying now.

Remembered I should have used hot after adding cleaner. One of those days. Put another coat of shellac on too soon and had to start over.

Figure it will take another hour to get up to temp as I used cold water when I filled it. 🙁

Got the ultrasonic cleaner cleaned out, filled up, and a new lid made. Tis sitting on the bench a few feet away making buzzing noises.

Got to move the ultrasonic cleaner in here after I clean it up/out and do a final cleaning on the movement parts. Then put it back together.

First coat of shellac on the damaged spot in the clock case. Gonna take at least 2 to 3 more coats but looks like it will work fine.

Up. Coffee made and being consumed. Suprisingly able to move without much pain this morning. Unlike last night when it all hurt…

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When split each round is more than a wheelbarrow full of wood. Am much more sore tonight than I was last night.

Am at the point in the trunk that the 18″ bar on the chain saw is not going all the way through so am having to cut from both sides.

Got most of the remaining log rounds split, moved and stacked today. Think there are 4 left to do, along with another 20-25 feet of tree.

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By Dave, December 1, 2011 11:42 pm

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To have the pieces to finish off the other pending clock repair. Will try to remember to get on that after cleaning the bench.

Now to move on to cleaning up the work bench so I can finish at least one of the clock projects. Which reminds me that I need to order bits.

Got it all measured, weighed, mixed and sitting on a shelf dissolving. Looks about right so hoping it’s the right mixture.

That’s what I’m gonna try anyway. If it works great. If not, haven’t wasted much of either alcohol or flake shellac.

Finally figured the ratio was 1:4 for a 2lb cut (thinking its the dense problem this am). Think that means 1/4 oz. solid to 1 oz. liquid.

Not sure if I am being dense or if most folks don’t mix small amounts. Need to make up small batch of shellac, having trouble finding how.

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