Mercury Pendulum Clock Stripdown: The Shocking Truth

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

Great video Dave love the idea of the chuck & key brilliant so simple 👍👍

[@davidhaggarty]

Thanks John, and it works very well.
The speed I work at would never get me a job as a professional clockmaker. It must be frustrating for you to watch me at work! 💤

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

@@davidhaggarty I think you underestimate yourself 👍

[@joatmonuk]

Those taper pins were crazy tight, even Horatio Nelson would have struggled against that French movement haha. 🤔I know, a bad dad joke 🙄

[@davidhaggarty]

All the taper pins had been hammered in, gouging grooves in the brass plate. The motion work had been put together incorrectly so the clock must have stayed as a nonworking ornament or they sold it.

[@joatmonuk]

@@davidhaggarty Definitely not one i'd like to tackle. Have you thought about a decent pair of smooth jawed pliers (not small electronic type) with a groove cut in the top on one jaw, that would go over the pin on the exit side helping to keep the force inline (perpendicular) with the pin?
I'm getting around to making some but time has been limited progressing my already started projects lately.
Lovely clock btw now in the right hands to make it live again.

[@davidhaggarty]

yes that's a good idea,@@joatmonuk I do use cutters without the hole but there's always the danger of cutting through the pin!