Reply To: French Longcase Clock?

[gerene]

Most Morbier clocks strike on the hour and again after 2 minutes. Only one strike on the half hour. This is how it is supposed to be.

I would replace the missing screws with new ones from the store. The few I have seen where all M3 size brass screws. The nuts are usually steel square nuts.

You could disengage the click to unwind the rope from the barrels. Normally one is supposed to wind the rope before transporting. Be careful when the barrel is fully onwound. It is easy to have the rope go off the barrel and winding around the barrel arbor, causing trouble with the other gears (guess how I know that).

Jan