Think I have spent about 4 hours now just chipping and cleaning epoxy off of things. Was SO not worth repairing, but I HAVE learned a lot.

Only problem it seems to have had was the idiot that poured epoxy on the minute hand to glue it on instead of replacing the hand nut. :-0

After lunch will polish the pivots, peg the holes, clean one more time and reassemble it. Or that’s the plan. Don’t see any worn holes.

Had one riveted wheel on the front plate with epoxy under it, so had to file the shaft, drive it out, clean the epoxy off and rerivet it.

Rinsed the cleaned pieces off and then put in alcohol to displace any remaining water, took them out one at a time and dried them off.

Came in and scrubbed the plates and assorted parts that needed it and put the ones that needed it back in the us for a bit longer.

Took the springs off the winding shafts. Cleaned the grease and gunk, and chipped the epoxy off, then lubed and reinstalled them.

Already had it disassembled enough to go into the ultrasonic. Got the bits started in there and moved on to the springs.

Woke up with a worse cold than I went to bed with. 🙁 After coffee got to working on the other Korean clock anyway.

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