Clock Cleaning and Repairing - With a Chapter on Adding Quarter-Chimes to a Grandfather Clock

by Bernard E. Jones

Overview

This vintage text contains an accessible and novice-friendly guide to cleaning and repairing clocks. Complete with simple step-by-step instructions and a plethora of detailed, useful illustrations, this timeless text is ideal for anyone looking for a simple and easy-to-digest guide pertaining to watch repair. Although old, the information contained herein will still be of considerable utility to the modern reader, and it would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. The chapters of this book include: How a Simple Clock Works, Clock Repairers’ Tools and Materials, General Repairs to Escapements, Recoil Escapements and their Repair, Dead-beat Escapements and their Repair, Cleaning Simple Clocks, Cleaning Dutch Clocks, etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473359321
Publisher:	Read Books Ltd.
Publication date:	08/26/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	218
File size:	9 MB