Reply To: Wooden works clock won’t continue to run

[oldtimers]

Hello John,
Could it be a bent pivot? You can remove the anchor so that the wheels spin freely and with finger pressure turn the wheels slowly to see if you can feel where the most resistance is. If the resistance repeats itself at the same point on any two wheels or actually wheel and pinion then you can be pretty sure the problem is with one of those wheels. You can verify it by removing one wheel at a time to see if you can narrow it down to those two again. Then check that pivot by running it along two elevated smooth surfaces to see if the wheel has run out. If it’s not a pivot then there could be a problem between two or more teeth.
John