Hello good morning. Thank you very much, the video was very informative and cleared up many doubts. I have three French watches that I restored and have not been able to synchronize correctly. With what I saw in the video, I now have a different vision. From Medellin, Colombia. My respects and admiration. Greetings,
Thank you so much for the presenting such a difficulty process I would like to see just this train between the plates and where you start to reassemble the items Regards Duncan
🙋♂ many thanks for this instructional video. I've a closet full of these French clocks and with time I've been able to repair and clean a few. But it is a puzzle to get everything in proper order. When all the gears are in place and I'm ready to set the back plate down on them they tend to move out of position. So now I tie a thread around the gears, holding them in place as I install the back plate. It sometimes takes a few attempts to get them sitting in the proper positions to run the strike. ~ Ben B. in California,USA
thanks Ben, yes it is a problem getting all the wheels in place. I start off with them high up above me, I'm on a low stool (seat lowers) with the movement chocked up at eye level with good lighting on a lazy-susan (turn table). when I have most of the wheels and barrels in place with the two lifting/striking (blued arbors) too, I lightly pin the back pillars and then take the movement in hand (wearing a broad apron to catch disasters) and fit the last few pivots - wheels holding the plates/movement in my left hand and coax the pivots into place with my right hand. Difficult but as long as you keep the movement more or less inclined up from the front plate, these pivots already in place tend to stay in place and you can tilt the movement to sight the top holes in the back plate for the remaining few pivots. Don't bother about the strike 3rd wheel as you have removed the access panel on the back plate. just concentrate on getting the fly fixed with the warning pin on the 5th wheel at about 3 o'clock and the rack pallet wheel's pin hard against the detent stop. then I use the spring clip holding the fly in the video. Worry about the time train as and if! once these strike wheels are in place pin all the plates lightly and then position the 3rd hammer lifting wheel so that the hammer is at "rest" - as i have suggest in the video. God willing it will strike as it should! To guide the pivots I use 3mm diam hamburger or sushi sticks with a "v" cut in the end and a hooked "barb" cut in the side adjacent to the v - use a razor blade to cut them. good fortune in your endeavors - the French clocks are wonders of "mass" produced works of the master craftsmen in late 19th early 20th C. regards Simon Spencer Fulham London
God bless you sir this is exactly what I have been looking for . I have been trying to fix a friends clock with a rack and snail. The clock keeps good time, and the chime is correctly synchronized, but will not chime on its own. You have to stick your finger in and lift on the side of the movement to engage the time so the pins for the hour and half an hour are not engaging somehow and I’m not sure exactly what is wrong or how to fix it. I think it has something to do with the hands not being pushed on far enough.
Hi I think you have a problem with the engagement of the pins lifting the Y detent to release the strike train as said at 1.50 mins. As explained in 3.20min if the snail and underlying pin wheel creeps forward then the pins miss these detents and so no lift and no strike. Squeezing the clutch 4.00 min may help but may not cure. Pushing the hands back from the center may also push the snail and lifting pins back to engage with the detents to lift them. Alternatively a 0.2mm or so washer under the Y detents may lift them a fraction to continue to engage with the pins after it has crept forward. Lastly an additional washer between the hour and minute hand may act to prevent the forward creep. This should be lubricated with 6B graphite but if it sticks the clock will stop!!! I am afraid I am not sufficiently experienced to give a definitive answer to this problem. A mix of these has helped me to keep my clocks running continuously. They are really wonderful pieces of mechanics but are full of hidden problems!! good luck
@@s.spencertenagodus8051 hey thank you I figured it out I just had to push the hands further on and it slid the main gear on so the pins would lift the chime
Hello good morning.
Thank you very much, the video was very informative and cleared up many doubts. I have three French watches that I restored and have not been able to synchronize correctly. With what I saw in the video, I now have a different vision.
From Medellin, Colombia. My respects and admiration.
Greetings,
Thank you so much for the presenting such a difficulty process I would like to see just this train between the plates and where you start to reassemble the items
Regards Duncan
Good information thank you
🙋♂ many thanks for this instructional video. I've a closet full of these French clocks and with time I've been able to repair and clean a few. But it is a puzzle to get everything in proper order. When all the gears are in place and I'm ready to set the back plate down on them they tend to move out of position. So now I tie a thread around the gears, holding them in place as I install the back plate. It sometimes takes a few attempts to get them sitting in the proper positions to run the strike. ~ Ben B. in California,USA
thanks Ben, yes it is a problem getting all the wheels in place. I start off with them high up above me, I'm on a low stool (seat lowers) with the movement chocked up at eye level with good lighting on a lazy-susan (turn table). when I have most of the wheels and barrels in place with the two lifting/striking (blued arbors) too, I lightly pin the back pillars and then take the movement in hand (wearing a broad apron to catch disasters) and fit the last few pivots - wheels holding the plates/movement in my left hand and coax the pivots into place with my right hand. Difficult but as long as you keep the movement more or less inclined up from the front plate, these pivots already in place tend to stay in place and you can tilt the movement to sight the top holes in the back plate for the remaining few pivots. Don't bother about the strike 3rd wheel as you have removed the access panel on the back plate. just concentrate on getting the fly fixed with the warning pin on the 5th wheel at about 3 o'clock and the rack pallet wheel's pin hard against the detent stop. then I use the spring clip holding the fly in the video. Worry about the time train as and if! once these strike wheels are in place pin all the plates lightly and then position the 3rd hammer lifting wheel so that the hammer is at "rest" - as i have suggest in the video. God willing it will strike as it should! To guide the pivots I use 3mm diam hamburger or sushi sticks with a "v" cut in the end and a hooked "barb" cut in the side adjacent to the v - use a razor blade to cut them. good fortune in your endeavors - the French clocks are wonders of "mass" produced works of the master craftsmen in late 19th early 20th C. regards Simon Spencer Fulham London
God bless you sir this is exactly what I have been looking for . I have been trying to fix a friends clock with a rack and snail. The clock keeps good time, and the chime is correctly synchronized, but will not chime on its own. You have to stick your finger in and lift on the side of the movement to engage the time so the pins for the hour and half an hour are not engaging somehow and I’m not sure exactly what is wrong or how to fix it. I think it has something to do with the hands not being pushed on far enough.
Hi I think you have a problem with the engagement of the pins lifting the Y detent to release the strike train as said at 1.50 mins. As explained in 3.20min if the snail and underlying pin wheel creeps forward then the pins miss these detents and so no lift and no strike. Squeezing the clutch 4.00 min may help but may not cure. Pushing the hands back from the center may also push the snail and lifting pins back to engage with the detents to lift them. Alternatively a 0.2mm or so washer under the Y detents may lift them a fraction to continue to engage with the pins after it has crept forward. Lastly an additional washer between the hour and minute hand may act to prevent the forward creep. This should be lubricated with 6B graphite but if it sticks the clock will stop!!! I am afraid I am not sufficiently experienced to give a definitive answer to this problem. A mix of these has helped me to keep my clocks running continuously. They are really wonderful pieces of mechanics but are full of hidden problems!! good luck
@@s.spencertenagodus8051 hey thank you I figured it out I just had to push the hands further on and it slid the main gear on so the pins would lift the chime
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