Reply To: Newbie Sessions

Jim and William;

Thanks for the welcome aboard.

The preacher I saw wasn’t nearly as nice as the one from NAWCC. It was at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMWMgWbECuU and looks downright shoddy compared to the picture. If I understand it properly you center the marked post on the old bushing and then mark the inside of the plate by whupping the other posts and then if there is anything wrong with the location of the new bushing you can insert a blank “bushing” line the preacher up with the “dimples” and mark where the hole needs to be. Seems like a good insurance policy for newbies.

Yes, I am enjoying my clocks. I have 7 mechanical and one old spin-start Bulova electric so I have plenty of material to play around with for a while. I am thinking of changing the gearing on my Asian skeleton clocks, one is an open movement but has gear pinions. The one in a case has lantern pinions. It looks like they are almost identical and I think I want to make the open one the one with the lantern pinions as it will cope with dirt better. I think the only thing I will need is a brass or gold colored hour ring of the right size. Looks like everything else will fit. Maybe I will only have 5 mechanical clocks after that.
Kenny H