We inherited my in-law's Herschedes 9-tube grandfathers clock which had been dormant since my FIL passed away 10 years ago. It has a service sticker on it and there was an oiling kit packed in the base. We carefully took the chime tubes, weights and pendulum out to transport it home last year. I reassembled it and just blew the dust out, wound the clock and it worked! Its been working fine until about a week or two ago when it stopped and was fully wound. Earlier this week I took the rear cover off and used the long neck lube tool to wet the shafts that I could get to. Amazingly the clock started going again and seems to be keeping even better time than before. For the past year, the chimes have worked, but now there's no chimes at all. I've been reading and watching videos... I think I have to take the front plate off and I'm a little terrified of that. Do I simply remove the tapered pin in the main shaft and then take off the hands? And after that, do I unscrew the second hand or does it simply pull out? I think I need to clean/oil the shafts in the front, especially the ones related to the chime mechanism. Is that correct? We're probably moving in the not too distant future and I don't want to schedule a professional cleaning/oiling until the clock winds up in a new permanent position. I'm pretty handy with tools, and I'd like to do a simple front end oiling to see if I can get that hourly chime going again. And/all advice is appreciated.
I JUST purchased this exact model yesterday! We just put it together today, and this will be very helpful. We have all of the original documents and a recently updated service manual, but there's still so much to learn.
Nice clock but I think some of the tubular bells need some tuning. I remember 8 of them are in the major key of C. And the hour tube is also in the tuning note C right
We inherited my in-law's Herschedes 9-tube grandfathers clock which had been dormant since my FIL passed away 10 years ago. It has a service sticker on it and there was an oiling kit packed in the base. We carefully took the chime tubes, weights and pendulum out to transport it home last year. I reassembled it and just blew the dust out, wound the clock and it worked! Its been working fine until about a week or two ago when it stopped and was fully wound. Earlier this week I took the rear cover off and used the long neck lube tool to wet the shafts that I could get to. Amazingly the clock started going again and seems to be keeping even better time than before. For the past year, the chimes have worked, but now there's no chimes at all. I've been reading and watching videos... I think I have to take the front plate off and I'm a little terrified of that. Do I simply remove the tapered pin in the main shaft and then take off the hands? And after that, do I unscrew the second hand or does it simply pull out? I think I need to clean/oil the shafts in the front, especially the ones related to the chime mechanism. Is that correct? We're probably moving in the not too distant future and I don't want to schedule a professional cleaning/oiling until the clock winds up in a new permanent position. I'm pretty handy with tools, and I'd like to do a simple front end oiling to see if I can get that hourly chime going again. And/all advice is appreciated.
I JUST purchased this exact model yesterday! We just put it together today, and this will be very helpful. We have all of the original documents and a recently updated service manual, but there's still so much to learn.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks my aunt was having trouble installing it and I have zero knowledge of tubular bell movements thank you.
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Nice clock but I think some of the tubular bells need some tuning. I remember 8 of them are in the major key of C. And the hour tube is also in the tuning note C right
The hour bell needs to be 2 keys lower.
The pendal doesn't swing straight. Can you help us
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