Timex 61 - Manuals

6 Taking it Apart – And Determining Beats per Hour Finally, real work could begin with the gears themselves outside of the movement. To take the movement apart was a simple matter of taking out five screws and pulling the front plate straight upward to avoid bending any pivots or shafts. This done, ...

7 File – The First Step Polishing Pivots – The Dreary Part Next, it was time to polish the bearing surfaces of the clock, called the pivots. The pivots are the ends of the gears that turn in the plate, and if they’re not polished, the clock will be sluggish and possibly stop. This is mostly due to t...

9 inserted the smaller end of the threads (which I filed down) into the rim of brass that was the head of the nut and peened the end down by hammering it flat so that it wouldn’t slip when it was screwed in. After the new threads were stuck tight in the rim, I drilled a hole through them, creating a...

12 I used the finer adjustment knob nearer to the bottom of the leader to finish the adjustment. After setting the beat, I set the rate, or the quickness of the tick-tocks. This was done using the nut at the bottom of the pendulum. I used the same timing machine to measure how many beats the clock m...

13 Conclusion – And Thanks I really enjoyed working on this lovely clock, and I’m honored to be a part of the history begun by the esteemed Class of 1912. Olathe North truly has one of the great clocks in existence today, and I trust it will be around for another 90 or 100 years. I would like to tha...

14 Care and Maintenance This Section by: David LaBounty, Certified Master Clockmaker AWI, Fellow BHI Winding This clock should be wound on a regular basis and once per week is acceptable. The clock may run for twelve to fourteen days but it is important to avoid having the weight settle on the botto...

15 Rating Rating the clock means adjusting the time keeping so the clock neither gains nor loses time while it is running. This is done by raising or lowering the pendulum bob using the rating nut on the bottom of the pendulum. Stop the pendulum to make all adjustments and then gently start the pend...

18 Bibliography French Clocks: The World Over, Part One, by Tardy. Paris, 1949. pp. 10-30 Machinery’s Handbook 24 th Edition, by Oberg, Jones, Horton, Ryffel. Edited by Robert E. Green. New York: Industrial Press Inc., 1992. pp. 1706-1707 Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements, by Tran Duy Ly. Virginia: A...

19 Attachment A Repair Itemization: • Polish eight pivots • Clean four shafts • Straighten six escape wheel teeth • Draw (stretch) escape wheel teeth • Tip (machine) escape wheel teeth to true escape wheel • Straighten two pivots • Replace threads on hand nut • Install three bushings • Make one new ...

20 Attachment B Tooth Count: • Hour Pipe = 80 teeth • Minute Wheel = 54 teeth • Minute Wheel Pinion = 10 leaves • Hour Wheel = 80 teeth • Cannon Pinion = 36 leaves • Main Wheel = 84 teeth • Second Wheel = 80 teeth • Second Wheel Pinion = 8 leaves • Third Wheel = 72 teeth • Third Wheel Cut Pinion = 1...