Striking Clock Repair Guide

Conover, Steven G.

ISBN 10: 0962476641 / ISBN 13: 9780962476648

Published by Clockmakers Newsletter, Reading, PA, 1996

About this Item

Tall, plastic-comb bound, soft cover. No flaws to note on this clean, tight and unmarked book. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page. 90 pages, black and white photos, line drawings. As stated in the introduction: "The book is not an encyclopedia of the striking clock movements made by every manufacturer. It is instead a repair guide to be used at the workbench, providing detailed repair instructions for a group of carefully selected stride mechanisms." Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 019152

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Striking Clock Repair Guide
• Publisher: Clockmakers Newsletter, Reading, PA
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962476641
• ISBN 13: 9780962476648
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: VG+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

Striking Clock Repair Guide uses the author's time-tested method of presenting detailed illustrations and step-by-step setup and repair procedures for clock mechanisms. The subject here is the striking clock. Just look at the movements covered in this book: American count wheel mechanisms by Ansonia, Seth Thomas, Ingraham, New Haven, and others; French count wheel and rack strike movements; English bell strike grandfather movement; German wall clock with count wheel strike; Hermle 130-series strike; and four different ship s bell strike clocks. There are two bonus features covering the making of hand-wound brass wire springs for strike arbors and a bending tool for adjusting strike levers. The easy-to-use 8-1/2 x 11 format opens flat on the bench. The clear writing and 108 illustrations make this 90-page book a must.

About the Author

Steven G. Conover writes books on clock repair and clockmaking. His eleven titles include Clock Repair Basics, a beginning book; Chime Clock Repair, a text covering the most common chime clocks seen by repairers; Building an American Clock Movement, which illustrates how to make a complete timepiece movement; and Repairing French Pendulum Clocks, covering several types of French clocks.
As editor of Clockmakers Newsletter, Steven published an eight-page subscription newsletter featuring clock repair articles, repair tips, questions & answers, and product reviews, from 1987 through 2008.
He is working on a new Workshop Series version of Clockmakers Newsletter. The series presents the edited, updated content of the newsletters, reorganized by topic, in book form. Ten books are planned; the first two were published in December 2011. Steven is a graduate of Northeastern University, Boston Mass., and a Fellow of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors (NAWCC).