Well, I also have a #217 and it works great! Bought it for $1570, but it had issues then. The strike would hang, caused by a little phase counter pawl that was worn out. But I was able add a small spring to hold the pawl tight against the pusher and that fixed it. As far as your video shows, I can not see any problem with how you handled the dials. Moving the idles will only do harm if you move one while it's striking. Good luck with yours! I love mine. I have see them in eBay for $4500 and up! I got a real good deal on mine! :)
OK - a belated comment: My Model 217 Herschede clock was purchased new by parents in 1961 and came to me in 1983 after my mother died. It has been in continuous use since my wife and I received it. I am fortunate to have found a very knowledgeable clock technician in Columbus, Ohio who serviced the clock recently, after too many years of benign neglect and a failure of the chime mechanism. Following simple maintenance in our home and oiling with synthetic oil, the clock now works beautifully and sound every bit as good as the clock in this RUclips posting - including the minor mistiming of the Whittington chime. My father paid $2,000 for mother's clock in 1961 and I understand that before production stopped the price was approaching $10,000. (WOW!!) Naturally, quartz crystal reference oscillators corrected by radio or internet to the NIST time standard is several orders of magnitude superior in accuracy, Nevertheless, properly serviced and maintained the Herschede clock movement can maintain an accuracy of about one minute per month. (mine does - and some do better) That is an accuracy of about 1 part in 43,830 (assuming 365.25 days per yr). Two minute per month accuracy would be 1 part in 21,915! Not too shabby for a 55 year-old antique that looks beautiful and sounds good while doing it! May my daughter and son-in-law enjoy it for another 50 years or so.
This video made me cringe, You should never move the chime select when the clock time is so close after chiming. It wrecks the music tube, and puts the chimes out of tempo as yours now sounds. I service these clocks, and you cannot by replacement parts, very expensive to service. It's a beautiful clock, but please know how to operate, you've probably already bent the pins in the movement by what I've seen here, thats why it chimes slightly out of rhythm...Not many of these left....8>(
Well, I also have a #217 and it works great! Bought it for $1570, but it had issues then. The strike would hang, caused by a little phase counter pawl that was worn out. But I was able add a small spring to hold the pawl tight against the pusher and that fixed it. As far as your video shows, I can not see any problem with how you handled the dials. Moving the idles will only do harm if you move one while it's striking. Good luck with yours! I love mine. I have see them in eBay for $4500 and up! I got a real good deal on mine! :)
OK - a belated comment: My Model 217 Herschede clock was purchased new by parents in 1961 and came to me in 1983 after my mother died. It has been in continuous use since my wife and I received it. I am fortunate to have found a very knowledgeable clock technician in Columbus, Ohio who serviced the clock recently, after too many years of benign neglect and a failure of the chime mechanism. Following simple maintenance in our home and oiling with synthetic oil, the clock now works beautifully and sound every bit as good as the clock in this RUclips posting - including the minor mistiming of the Whittington chime. My father paid $2,000 for mother's clock in 1961 and I understand that before production stopped the price was approaching $10,000. (WOW!!)
Naturally, quartz crystal reference oscillators corrected by radio or internet to the NIST time standard is several orders of magnitude superior in accuracy, Nevertheless, properly serviced and maintained the Herschede clock movement can maintain an accuracy of about one minute per month. (mine does - and some do better) That is an accuracy of about 1 part in 43,830 (assuming 365.25 days per yr). Two minute per month accuracy would be 1 part in 21,915! Not too shabby for a 55 year-old antique that looks beautiful and sounds good while doing it!
May my daughter and son-in-law enjoy it for another 50 years or so.
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What is the golden or brass plate on the bottom
“Whittier”
Is this clock for sale?
This video made me cringe, You should never move the chime select when the clock time is so close after chiming. It wrecks the music tube, and puts the chimes out of tempo as yours now sounds. I service these clocks, and you cannot by replacement parts, very expensive to service. It's a beautiful clock, but please know how to operate, you've probably already bent the pins in the movement by what I've seen here, thats why it chimes slightly out of rhythm...Not many of these left....8>(