antique Cuckoo clock problems

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 7:53 pm     Post subject: antique Cuckoo clock problems

Hey everyone, i'm new to the forum just today. I'll stay off by saying I own 3 clocks now. I got my grandparents clock after they passed. Old German 1 day cuckoo pretty big one. Someone people call it a RailRoad Clock. Does anyone know why they have Rail Road Cuckoo clocks? anyway since i got that cleaned and oiled and adjusted by a professional, i bout 2 more clocks. I bought another Rail Road cuckoo clock 1 day movement. made in 1911. I got if off Ebay. I wasn't happy how the movement works.

to describe this thing, when the minute hand gets to the 4 or the 10 the door will slowly open up for the bird to come out. until it gets to the 12 or 6 it'll open and gong and cuckoo correctly then it'll close. Also it's got plastic hands on it and the minute hand is square holed and it is very sloppy on the shaft. You could basically move the minute hand five minutes very freely and the shaft won't move. I pulled the hand off and it is a square shaft but it's very sloppy. So when the minute hands gets between the 5 and 6 and 11 and 12 it'll cuckoo. To me that's sloppy. My "good" clock i had redone, works excellent. chimes right on the 6 and 12. any advice. I'd like to fix this before i ship it out. I just resold it cause i'm not happy with it. Thanks Guys

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:00 am     Post subject:

They are called Rail Road, from the German "Bahnhäusleuhr" because theg uy who designed them, Friedrich Eisenlohr, was formerly an architect who had been responsible for creating the buildings along the then new and first Badenian Rhine valley railroad. The house of the cuckoo clocks resembles these buildings. Check it out on wikipedia.

interesting huh?

As for your seond questions, I'm afraid I'm none the wiser.

Good luck!!


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