Nice video. Just one thing you might not know. When you wind the clock / raise the weights you need to support the the weight with one hand and pull chain with the other hand. Your clock will last longer. A black forest cuckoo clock maker told my mom that in So Dakota over 60 to 80 years ago when she got her cuckoo clock. It was still working when she passed.
Great info Doug, Thanks for posting. I managed to get mine cleaned and running again after several years of not running. It’s great to hear the cuckoo once more. Thank you!
Thanks Doug. I have never seen the inside of a cuckoo clock. I love the sound of a ticking clock and the striking of time or the sound of the cuckoo marking the time. I know some people don't care for it, but the whimsy makes me smile.
the proper way is to disassemble and clean then reassemble and oil. You want to only fill each oil cup on each pivot approx 1/2 full or it will eventually run out and then the pivot will be dry. You cant get the gunk out of the pivot holes unless you disassemble the clock. The dirt will act as a lapping compound and wear out the pivot holes. these are high maintenance clocks and should be cleaned every few years.
Thanks for the instructional video. When I was a child, my uncle gave our family a cuckoo clock. I don't think it has ever been cleaned, and a few years ago, it stopped working. But when my mother passed away, it came to me. I hope to get it working again.
Great video for quick maintenance. You should note all the pinions you oiled have another oil spot on the front. It is not a difficult job to remove it from the case.
Just stumbled across this because I have a cuckoo clock and the pendulum stopped swinging. I’m a bit scared to work on it myself but there are no repair shops that I can find around me. I hope the cleaning and oiling helps fix the problem. Thanks
Wow Doug, thanks for the video. My clock stopped working years ago. Didn't know to do maintenance on it. Maybe a cleaning/lubrication is all it needs. Awesome!
Thank you! Easy peasy I can bypass the clock repair man. When this video was made it wasn't so expensive in my area. But since covid and all the awfulness that has come with it... Not so much anymore. These videos more than ever are really appreciated that are still on TH-cam. I did purchase mine in 2021 off eBay. It had brand new bellows put in it and a new oil. And now I see how easy it is I'm just investing in the oil and the cleaning of the wood products. 😊 I just need extra magnification on the glasses lol.
Thanks a lot! Doug! I'd finally found the way to oil the clock since mine is about 25 years old clock and occasionally stopped w/o reasons. After I'd add more weight to the main weight it worked again. I'd figured the shaft of hour/minute pointer stuck. I'm gonna do as you'd taught and hope it helps. Thanks again for sharing the info.
Doug...JUST got me a cuckoo clock. Black forest cuckoo...its brilliant. Forgot you did this video all those years ago man... was looking up cleaning and pendulum adjustments on the tube. 👍
Between the "ticker" and the "donger" and the "All this kinda buisness"...your advice is surprisingly accurate. And I've always thought the only thing missing from straw hats...is lighting. Thanks for the video...but go easy on the oil...a tiny dab'll do 'ya.
That was really cool to see the inside of the clock. I've never seen that before. My great grandmother's cookoo was always a great thing that me and my siblings would go and look at when we went to her house. We loved when it cookooed. Thanks for the video's and the memory reminder.
Mobile 1 full synthetic European blend 5w30 is really good oil for them ive been using it for years now on small paint brush and brush it in the pivots also works well in german mantel clocks
thank you... i have one that reminds me of my great grandma had...one hand is lose and she isnt working anymore..you inspired me to look at and see if there is anything obvious
Saw this in 2017 when my clock stopped and followed everything and the clock worked again. Move forward to October 2023 as the clock stopped again so I put in "oiling old cuckoo clock" in the search bar and this popped up again. Its not enough to just oil- have to have that compressed air like what he did as just oiling didn't work the first time. Now its up and running. As an aside I have exactly the same mechanism inside and just the face differs. Bought this in Black Forest cuckoo clocks company store in Rothenberg Germany.
Hi Doug Thank you so much for your video on cleaning the cuckoo clock. I have a Swiss Cuckoo clock which we got in Switzerland. I found out about some parts of my cuckoo clock that I never knew about until you. (Such as the pendulum, moving the wooden piece can adjust how fast or slow the clock goes.). I have never oiled it, so I will be going to ACE Hardware to get some synthetic oil to oil my clock. Thanks for all your wonderful tips! Oh and say Hi to Stacey! I am holistic and use essential oils (Doterra) for my healing and aroma therapy, as well as herbs. Oh and I make my own Kombucha and Sour Dough! Love your show!
FREAKING YES ! this was the video ive been waiting for ! everytime i see em' or hear em' in your vids i keep wondering.... "what do they look like inside?" i LOVE the mini bellows lol Dont forget to Schiagahschaltong 8:05
The "ticker or swingy thing" is called a pendulum. Fun Fact: Cuckoo birds lay their eggs in other bird's nests for other birds to take care of their chicks. When the cuckoo chick is born it kicks out any remaining eggs or chicks from the original bird. This forces it's surrogate parent bird to devote all it's time to take care of the cuckoo chick only. That's not a very nice of the cuckoo bird.
We had a murdercase in the Netherlands called the Cuckoo case. A guy murdered a couple and lived in their house for a couple of years, paying the bills and all while the victims were burried underneath the kids farm.
Yikes! No wonder I find so many movements with massive build up on them. The proper way to clean any clock is to remove the movement from the case, disassemble it, place the parts into an ultrasonic or clock cleaning solution. Clean and dry each pc afterward. Pith the pivot holes and arbors , reassemble the movement and oil using a quality clock oil only with a pin drop on each pivot hole. Or you can do this...I can always use more broken and gummed up clocks to repair.
My wife and I find your videos and lifestyle very interesting. How would you describe your faith and/or is there a website we can go to for information? Thank you for what y'all do.
You might as well hose it down with WD40.No matter what oil is applied,you got WAY TOO MUCH OIL on each of the pivots, (a highly technical term used to describe the part that comes through the plates that needs the oil).If you insist on oiling it yourself,skip the overpriced automotive stuff,and use something more suitable like gun oil.It is a7
About 3 weeks ago the cuckoo clock stopped. I tried shifting and readjusting, but nothing seemed to work. Today as an experiment I put a double weight on the chain that makes the pendulum go and it has been working for about 7 hours now. This means that I have no weight for the chain that makes the men of the band go around and around, but I was intrigued to find out that the weight of two weights were suddenly necessary to get the pendulum to move. Any idea why this might be? The clock is at the same position it was in former times. I know this as I marked where it should be to work on the wall with a light pencil mark as had been suggested to me by someone. The weight to bring the cuckoo out at the hour and at the half hour is still attached and it is working. That is the middle chain. Thanks
Do you but the cuckoo bird poop in your compost? LOL . I in joy your video but I need some fishing video. Remember safety is number one on your Homestead.
When I picked up this cuckoo clock, it was working, but the way she took it down. I set it back up at my house seems like the timings off. You hear it click but the door doesn’t open every now and then shine every now and then go through andstay going to the weight goes all the way down. Let me know what I can do to fix. I’m not sure when I put it back up.
Very interesting video. Thank you Doug. After you put it back on the wall and you put the weights back on, is the time on the cuckoo clock off? if so how do you set the time?Again, thanks a bunch.
I just bought a cuendet swiss musical movement cuckoo clock-6732-36 in an auction. This a Edelweis Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago...It was mentioned as never been tried but when I put things up it does not work. The pendulum does not work.. Please advice
Hello. I've the problem when I put the bird weight it starts sing without stop, until the weight is in the bottom.... what could be? What can I do? Also the switch to turn off or of the bird doesn't work. My cuckoo also has a music box to the right but it works when I activate manually And about the luv. .. can I use wd40 ?
The only “proper” way to clean & lubricate the movement is to remove the movement & perform a complete disassembly. This method will result in worn bushings; especially on the frontal plate.
You are correct and although it may be unwise to do a video on this method for others to emulate, it is better than doing nothing to a clock yet still trying to keep it in daily use. It is his clock, he is doing his own maintenance and he is not a spring chicken. He will most likely be dead before any worn pivot holes or bushings pose a significant problem to the clock if the pivots or any of their holes are not already substantially worn. Also, negative commenters will probably be long dead as well before getting to yell, "told ya' so!" with certainty due to his incomplete maintenance rather than the possibility of just the clocks old age and any possible inferior quality metals in some brands being more responsible for future problems with the particular clock in question. People on farms in days gone by usually never called a professional repairman to do routine maintenance on their clocks and yet antique shops are still full of well regulating farm clocks that only need serviced and not repaired. That being said, farmers in the past did not have cans of compressed air to blow dirt deeper into gummy pivots before adding more oil but, they also did not have high friction and heat synthetics to do the oiling with either. It is a toss up between old and new pros and cons evening out. One thing is for certain, no matter the proper maintenance or type of oils used.... time will eventually make all clocks and everything else manmade unrepairable; the time before that happens, the cost to the owner and its sentimental value as well at any particular time in a clocks life dictate the type of care it gets and the measure of its days left as a well regulating timepiece; to not end up just a wall heirloom to look at. This video was a measure of this particular clocks owner's balance between sentimental and functional value, he shared his method for those who appraise their own clocks to be of about the same value balance to them.... nothing more, nothing less. Did he do the cleaning and oiling servicing to professional standards though?.. No, no he did not, not even close! Could what he did cause problems far ahead in the future? Yes it could but, he will not be around to experience the regret in doing it that way when the effects of it cause a problem to the extent of actually needing to pay a repairman to properly fix it, lol Of course, there are those clocks to be found that have had the pivots grind a line through the clock plates like a termite through wood as well, but I'd be willing to wager that they never had anything done in maintenance at all besides being pulled out of a dusty barn after years of neglect and then pressed into service without no more than the exterior being cleaned and a maybe a few blasts of WD40 to the whole interior and thus, after another decade or so they end up on the trash heap or being sold online with a proud declaration of "Works but not sure about how accurate"! lol In actuality, modern oils and cleaning methods are going to be the downfall of all antique clocks and modern clocks of lesser quality parts if the cost of professional maintenance or the price of proper equipment for the non-professional owner don't come down... In the old days, the old oils gummed up and slowed or even stopped the clock from running and grinding the dirt around a pivots as much when it was time for servicing. New synthetics last a few years longer but they don't gum up and usually evaporate all together and it leaves the clock to run on and on without servicing and no oil at all on the dirty pivots until the clocks pendulum can't be adjusted any further or the hairspring's regulator has been maxed out to correct the time and then the first noticeable thing wrong after that is usually so costly to repair that it is uneconomical to fix unless you are a wealthy collector of a rare and collectible timepiece worth the repair. In a way, it is better to know how to service an every day use clock properly and economically ones self with non-synthetic oil that will remind them when it is service time in a less than ideal environment in an average Joe's home rather than treat a working man's passed down heirloom clock that's not of museum quality with expensive professional servicing using oils that will not remind the owner to take time out of their busy schedule to pay to have it serviced again …. all the while, the clock grinds away at full pace with the lubricant all but gone. Expensive synthetic clock lubes would be like a ticking time bomb (excuse the pun) for anyone but the collector with ample time and $$ to give to his collection professional servicing!! You are right in what you said but, if the limited financially prudent options available to clock owners (but probably not collectors) today are taken into account, there are more ways that are practical in effect than what an professional horologist or anal-retentive amateur would care to admit. In short, his way was the "proper way" for him at the time he did it and probably will be until he decides to do it in a "more proper" way for some reason. lol
You have to use a contact cleaner and after a drop of synthetic oil for lube mechanism (for car or also vaselline) but only in the points where is needed. You can also use Wd40 but it s not the best, it s an unlocker.
Originally they used a cell phone and uploaded. Now they have a 70D I believe and a drone. You charge the phone, etc off the truck. They have no electricity in the cabin -- but a cell isn't "grid"... They do use some technology...
Hiya Doug :-D I have a cuckoo clock that is about 30 years old, and has NEVER been cleaned or oiled inside. I guess it's high time, eh? (pun intended LOL) When you held the oil up to the camera, the light made a reflection on the label, and I couldn't see what kind or brand of oil you were using. Is that synthetic car oil???
You sir are a joke. Tell me how are you going to oil the other side? How you are going about this will cause wear on the other side on the inside plate which you don't bother about. This type of cuckoo clock is modern and they are mass produced for the tourist market.
Nice video. Just one thing you might not know. When you wind the clock / raise the weights you need to support the the weight with one hand and pull chain with the other hand. Your clock will last longer. A black forest cuckoo clock maker told my mom that in So Dakota over 60 to 80 years ago when she got her cuckoo clock. It was still working when she passed.
Great info Doug, Thanks for posting. I managed to get mine cleaned and running again after several years of not running. It’s great to hear the cuckoo once more. Thank you!
Thanks Doug. I have never seen the inside of a cuckoo clock. I love the sound of a ticking clock and the striking of time or the sound of the cuckoo marking the time. I know some people don't care for it, but the whimsy makes me smile.
the proper way is to disassemble and clean then reassemble and oil. You want to only fill each oil cup on each pivot approx 1/2 full or it will eventually run out and then the pivot will be dry. You cant get the gunk out of the pivot holes unless you disassemble the clock. The dirt will act as a lapping compound and wear out the pivot holes. these are high maintenance clocks and should be cleaned every few years.
Thanks for the instructional video.
When I was a child, my uncle gave our family a cuckoo clock. I don't think it has ever been cleaned, and a few years ago, it stopped working. But when my mother passed away, it came to me. I hope to get it working again.
Very practical not doing too much , and job done .
Very easy to understand.
Excellent.
Great video for quick maintenance. You should note all the pinions you oiled have another oil spot on the front. It is not a difficult job to remove it from the case.
Just stumbled across this because I have a cuckoo clock and the pendulum stopped swinging. I’m a bit scared to work on it myself but there are no repair shops that I can find around me. I hope the cleaning and oiling helps fix the problem. Thanks
Wow Doug, thanks for the video. My clock stopped working years ago. Didn't know to do maintenance on it. Maybe a cleaning/lubrication is all it needs. Awesome!
I learned how 2 do this from u a long time ago thanks so much 4 teaching me hope u have a blessed evening God bless
Greetings from Ireland. I love clock's. When you get it hanging properly, put a pencil mark on the wall so that it will always be easy to line up.
omg! she is still moving! I did it! You guys would crack up laughing, I made over the bellows with old antique thin glove leather!
Tks. I bought a lot of things at a house auction. There was 5/6 cookoo clocks. The back and inside is exactly like the one on here. Thanks so much.
I bought one of these timeless clocks while in germany in 89. Horace Whitlocks clock oil is the perfect lubricant for all clock works and music boxes.
I love my cuckoo clock! My son brought it back from the Black Forest... my grandparents had cuckoo clocks!
Thank you! Easy peasy I can bypass the clock repair man. When this video was made it wasn't so expensive in my area. But since covid and all the awfulness that has come with it... Not so much anymore. These videos more than ever are really appreciated that are still on TH-cam. I did purchase mine in 2021 off eBay. It had brand new bellows put in it and a new oil. And now I see how easy it is I'm just investing in the oil and the cleaning of the wood products. 😊 I just need extra magnification on the glasses lol.
Thanks a lot! Doug! I'd finally found the way to oil the clock since mine is about 25 years old clock and occasionally stopped w/o reasons. After I'd add more weight to the main weight it worked again. I'd figured the shaft of hour/minute pointer stuck. I'm gonna do as you'd taught and hope it helps. Thanks again for sharing the info.
Doug...JUST got me a cuckoo clock. Black forest cuckoo...its brilliant. Forgot you did this video all those years ago man... was looking up cleaning and pendulum adjustments on the tube. 👍
Thank you very much... I followed your instructions and my clock works just like new. Thanks
Between the "ticker" and the "donger" and the "All this kinda buisness"...your advice is surprisingly accurate.
And I've always thought the only thing missing from straw hats...is lighting.
Thanks for the video...but go easy on the oil...a tiny dab'll do 'ya.
My Grandpa had Cuckoo clocks and loved it when they chimed and the bird came out to chirp.
That was really cool to see the inside of the clock. I've never seen that before. My great grandmother's cookoo was always a great thing that me and my siblings would go and look at when we went to her house. We loved when it cookooed. Thanks for the video's and the memory reminder.
Mobile 1 full synthetic European blend 5w30 is really good oil for them ive been using it for years now on small paint brush and brush it in the pivots also works well in german mantel clocks
I just got my Black Forest cuckoo clock a d set
Up. Waiting for the top of the hour. 👍 thanks Doug fir the maintenance tips.
thank you... i have one that reminds me of my great grandma had...one hand is lose and she isnt working anymore..you inspired me to look at and see if there is anything obvious
Agnes & Dora by Shelli Hi i have a clock repair in N. california if u need it cleaned or fixed.
Saw this in 2017 when my clock stopped and followed everything and the clock worked again. Move forward to October 2023 as the clock stopped again so I put in "oiling old cuckoo clock" in the search bar and this popped up again. Its not enough to just oil- have to have that compressed air like what he did as just oiling didn't work the first time. Now its up and running. As an aside I have exactly the same mechanism inside and just the face differs. Bought this in Black Forest cuckoo clocks company store in Rothenberg Germany.
Awesome info Doug. We inherited 2 antique clocks. I will try your method, hope it works. If not off to the shop they go.
Thanks Doug & Stacy. Bill
Thanks for the quick way to clean and lube a German cuckoo clock.
Hi Doug
Thank you so much for your video on cleaning the cuckoo clock. I have a Swiss Cuckoo clock which we got in Switzerland. I found out about some parts of my cuckoo clock that I never knew about until you. (Such as the pendulum, moving the wooden piece can adjust how fast or slow the clock goes.). I have never oiled it, so I will be going to ACE Hardware to get some synthetic oil to oil my clock. Thanks for all your wonderful tips! Oh and say Hi to Stacey! I am holistic and use essential oils (Doterra) for my healing and aroma therapy, as well as herbs. Oh and I make my own Kombucha and Sour Dough! Love your show!
My family is German too.I always thought a cuckoo clock would drive me crazy,but now I may get one.
FREAKING YES ! this was the video ive been waiting for ! everytime i see em' or hear em' in your vids i keep wondering.... "what do they look like inside?" i LOVE the mini bellows lol Dont forget to Schiagahschaltong 8:05
another interesting and fun video :)
Awesome! I had no idea you should oil a cuckoo clock! Thanks!
Ive always wanted one of those
You need to pull movement from case & oil front
Now I need to make sure to add a cuckoo clock to my homestead list 👍🏻
sweet....cool old clock.....thx.....!
Do you have a video on how to put a chain back on? Love this video i will be doing this today.
modern can of air on old time technolagy. working together. cool
I love German Cuckoo Clocks. There's a shop near me that sells them. Would love to buy one someday.
Hey, great clock Cleaning tutorial! Hope to see more Cleaning related videos. ;-)
Those bananas. Lol
The "ticker or swingy thing" is called a pendulum.
Fun Fact: Cuckoo birds lay their eggs in other bird's nests for other birds to take care of their chicks. When the cuckoo chick is born it kicks out any remaining eggs or chicks from the original bird. This forces it's surrogate parent bird to devote all it's time to take care of the cuckoo chick only.
That's not a very nice of the cuckoo bird.
We had a murdercase in the Netherlands called the Cuckoo case.
A guy murdered a couple and lived in their house for a couple of years, paying the bills and all while the victims were burried underneath the kids farm.
TY!
you have oiled back side what about front side?
Thank you for sharing
Yikes! No wonder I find so many movements with massive build up on them. The proper way to clean any clock is to remove the movement from the case, disassemble it, place the parts into an ultrasonic or clock cleaning solution. Clean and dry each pc afterward. Pith the pivot holes and arbors , reassemble the movement and oil using a quality clock oil only with a pin drop on each pivot hole. Or you can do this...I can always use more broken and gummed up clocks to repair.
💗DOUG & STACY💗😉👌
you need to remove the clock meck to oil front of all gears good luck
Nice video. I noticed the pendulum was slowing about to quit at the end of the video. Did you have to do more work on this clock?
My wife and I find your videos and lifestyle very
interesting. How would you describe your faith and/or is there a website we can
go to for information? Thank you for what y'all do.
You might as well hose it down with WD40.No matter what oil is applied,you got WAY TOO MUCH OIL on each of the pivots, (a highly technical term used to describe the part that comes through the plates that needs the oil).If you insist on oiling it yourself,skip the overpriced automotive stuff,and use something more suitable like gun oil.It is a7
thanks for the info
Cool.
How does the front contact points on the gears get oiled?
How do you oil the front wells were the gears are?
I love your clock its beautiful,
What type of oil please...the glare on the can prevented me from being able to read the oil can
Off grid with a camera and WiFi connection obviously.
About 3 weeks ago the cuckoo clock stopped. I tried shifting and readjusting, but nothing seemed to work. Today as an experiment I put a double weight on the chain that makes the pendulum go and it has been working for about 7 hours now. This means that I have no weight for the chain that makes the men of the band go around and around, but I was intrigued to find out that the weight of two weights were suddenly necessary to get the pendulum to move. Any idea why this might be? The clock is at the same position it was in former times. I know this as I marked where it should be to work on the wall with a light pencil mark as had been suggested to me by someone. The weight to bring the cuckoo out at the hour and at the half hour is still attached and it is working. That is the middle chain. Thanks
Do you but the cuckoo bird poop in your compost? LOL . I in joy your video but I need some fishing video. Remember safety is number one on your Homestead.
How do you oil the other side of the gears?
When I picked up this cuckoo clock, it was working, but the way she took it down. I set it back up at my house seems like the timings off. You hear it click but the door doesn’t open every now and then shine every now and then go through andstay going to the weight goes all the way down. Let me know what I can do to fix. I’m not sure when I put it back up.
Very interesting video. Thank you Doug. After you put it back on the wall and you put the weights back on, is the time on the cuckoo clock off? if so how do you set the time?Again, thanks a bunch.
Yes it will be off, just take your finger and move the hands to the correct time :)
I have the same exact clock, mine keeps stopping on its own. Do you think this would help?
A tiny keyboard vac should work too
You have only oiled one side what about the other side🤔
Good video but how are you off grid and yet on the internet? ;)
The best oil 4 cuckoo clocks is liberty oil
Half the work has been done, the other side of the clock needs oil.
I think I pulled my lines to tight. How can I fix this? I feel like if I pull to hard it'll break the lines. Any recommendations? Thank you.
the reason it was not dirty is because I saw an earlier video of Stacy cleaning it with a pressure washer, wet and wild. LOL
My right chain for the cuckoo won't move. We oiled the clock any other suggestions, do we need to do something else with that gear?
Sounds like a lock up, go gently in the back and follow the chain and find the snag
Oil should be aplied as little as possible. Better get some oil in a small lid or something and aply it with a toothpick. :)
I just bought a cuendet swiss musical movement cuckoo clock-6732-36 in an auction. This a Edelweis Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago...It was mentioned as never been tried but when I put things up it does not work. The pendulum does not work.. Please advice
How can you be “off grid” while making TH-cam videos?
Hello. I've the problem when I put the bird weight it starts sing without stop, until the weight is in the bottom.... what could be? What can I do? Also the switch to turn off or of the bird doesn't work.
My cuckoo also has a music box to the right but it works when I activate manually
And about the luv. .. can I use wd40 ?
Wd-40 is terrible for clocks
Cant get mine to work. Bird wont come out even if I wind the hands. Pendulum stops I want to cry I keep trying to fix it
The only “proper” way to clean & lubricate the movement is to remove the movement & perform a complete disassembly. This method will result in worn bushings; especially on the frontal plate.
You are correct and although it may be unwise to do a video on this method for others to emulate, it is better than doing nothing to a clock yet still trying to keep it in daily use.
It is his clock, he is doing his own maintenance and he is not a spring chicken. He will most likely be dead before any worn pivot holes or bushings pose a significant problem to the clock if the pivots or any of their holes are not already substantially worn. Also, negative commenters will probably be long dead as well before getting to yell, "told ya' so!" with certainty due to his incomplete maintenance rather than the possibility of just the clocks old age and any possible inferior quality metals in some brands being more responsible for future problems with the particular clock in question.
People on farms in days gone by usually never called a professional repairman to do routine maintenance on their clocks and yet antique shops are still full of well regulating farm clocks that only need serviced and not repaired. That being said, farmers in the past did not have cans of compressed air to blow dirt deeper into gummy pivots before adding more oil but, they also did not have high friction and heat synthetics to do the oiling with either. It is a toss up between old and new pros and cons evening out. One thing is for certain, no matter the proper maintenance or type of oils used.... time will eventually make all clocks and everything else manmade unrepairable; the time before that happens, the cost to the owner and its sentimental value as well at any particular time in a clocks life dictate the type of care it gets and the measure of its days left as a well regulating timepiece; to not end up just a wall heirloom to look at. This video was a measure of this particular clocks owner's balance between sentimental and functional value, he shared his method for those who appraise their own clocks to be of about the same value balance to them.... nothing more, nothing less.
Did he do the cleaning and oiling servicing to professional standards though?.. No, no he did not, not even close! Could what he did cause problems far ahead in the future? Yes it could but, he will not be around to experience the regret in doing it that way when the effects of it cause a problem to the extent of actually needing to pay a repairman to properly fix it, lol
Of course, there are those clocks to be found that have had the pivots grind a line through the clock plates like a termite through wood as well, but I'd be willing to wager that they never had anything done in maintenance at all besides being pulled out of a dusty barn after years of neglect and then pressed into service without no more than the exterior being cleaned and a maybe a few blasts of WD40 to the whole interior and thus, after another decade or so they end up on the trash heap or being sold online with a proud declaration of "Works but not sure about how accurate"! lol
In actuality, modern oils and cleaning methods are going to be the downfall of all antique clocks and modern clocks of lesser quality parts if the cost of professional maintenance or the price of proper equipment for the non-professional owner don't come down... In the old days, the old oils gummed up and slowed or even stopped the clock from running and grinding the dirt around a pivots as much when it was time for servicing. New synthetics last a few years longer but they don't gum up and usually evaporate all together and it leaves the clock to run on and on without servicing and no oil at all on the dirty pivots until the clocks pendulum can't be adjusted any further or the hairspring's regulator has been maxed out to correct the time and then the first noticeable thing wrong after that is usually so costly to repair that it is uneconomical to fix unless you are a wealthy collector of a rare and collectible timepiece worth the repair.
In a way, it is better to know how to service an every day use clock properly and economically ones self with non-synthetic oil that will remind them when it is service time in a less than ideal environment in an average Joe's home rather than treat a working man's passed down heirloom clock that's not of museum quality with expensive professional servicing using oils that will not remind the owner to take time out of their busy schedule to pay to have it serviced again …. all the while, the clock grinds away at full pace with the lubricant all but gone. Expensive synthetic clock lubes would be like a ticking time bomb (excuse the pun) for anyone but the collector with ample time and $$ to give to his collection professional servicing!!
You are right in what you said but, if the limited financially prudent options available to clock owners (but probably not collectors) today are taken into account, there are more ways that are practical in effect than what an professional horologist or anal-retentive amateur would care to admit.
In short, his way was the "proper way" for him at the time he did it and probably will be until he decides to do it in a "more proper" way for some reason. lol
I Have same clock ,but one chain not working
Cuc-Kool!
You have to remove the entire mechanism if you're really going to lubricate whole clock.
What kind of oil is that?
Never Mind The Workmanship...
There's Always Someone Doing Worse Than You Are.
How does one keep the cuckoo clock in motion?
keep pulling the weights back up to the top as they near to the bottom. That's pretty much it.
UN refugee 64 all yip! 🦊
You make it way too easy.
Thanks for the info.
Can you use wd40 to oil those holes?
You have to use a contact cleaner and after a drop of synthetic oil for lube mechanism (for car or also vaselline) but only in the points where is needed. You can also use Wd40 but it s not the best, it s an unlocker.
Where is this promised laundry vid ?
great info but if you have no electricity or solar how you able to make TH-cam videos
Originally they used a cell phone and uploaded. Now they have a 70D I believe and a drone. You charge the phone, etc off the truck. They have no electricity in the cabin -- but a cell isn't "grid"... They do use some technology...
Do not use car oil ever!! It is to thick.
Hiya Doug :-D
I have a cuckoo clock that is about 30 years old, and has NEVER been cleaned or oiled inside. I guess it's high time, eh? (pun intended LOL) When you held the oil up to the camera, the light made a reflection on the label, and I couldn't see what kind or brand of oil you were using. Is that synthetic car oil???
Amish approved for coo coo clocks.. 🦊
Thanks, Are you conservative Mennonite? I have seen men with similar hats and they are conservative Mennonite.
Off GRID...? But still on social media and TH-cam... lol that much off grid.
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What a mess. I see plenty of pop-mark tapped holes to make it smaller.🤢
Compressed air can force dirt into places you don't want it.
You sir are a joke. Tell me how are you going to oil the other side? How you are going about this will cause wear on the other side on the inside plate which you don't bother about. This type of cuckoo clock is modern and they are mass produced for the tourist market.
oldhippy 101 cuckoo clock cleaning rage...........
Glad you're such an expert, 101. That's great encouragement and adds SO Much to the subject!