Forum: Mechanical Movements   Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:40 am   Subject: Clock Strikes Only Once on the Hour (Every Hour)

I have a Waltham 31 day chiming wall clock. The clock strikes on the half hour and on the hour. The problem is that it strikes once on the hour no matter what hour it is. It also strikes once on eac ...

Forum: Mechanical Movements   Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:37 am   Subject: Strike Will Not Stop

I have a Waltham 31 day chiming wall clock. The problem is that I can not get the strike to stop. When I start the clock and move the time to the hour position position, the strike does not stop at th ...

Forum: Mechanical Movements   Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:01 am   Subject: Strick will not stop

Good question. I just bought the clock at an estate sale. Do you recommend that I remove the face and oil the mechanism? Thanks.

Forum: Mechanical Movements   Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:44 pm   Subject: Strick will not stop

I have a Waltham 31 day chiming wall clock. The problem is that I can not get the strick to stop. When I start the clock and move the time to "the hour" position, the strick does not stop ...

Forum: Mechanical Movements   Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:10 pm   Subject: Pendulum Fell Off

My mother was raising the weights on her Barwick weight driven movement grandfather clock (model 4887) when she hit the pendulum and it came off of the suspension spring. After checking to make sure ...

Forum: Mechanical Movements   Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:04 pm   Subject: Clock Repair

I have a Verichron 31 day mantal clock that runs about 1 minute and stops (yes, I did wind it). I am not a clock expert, but I want to take the face off to see if anything jumps out as the problem. ...