I have a Seth Thomas vintage metronome which had an uneven beat, after seeing your vid and a couple of others that adjusted the weight I looked down at the weight from the top side and the bottom side and saw that it was sitting at a slight angle from straight on center, I twisted it with enough pressure to readjust its position. The beat is now even. Thanks.
What you should do to set the beat is NOT bend the pendulum as shown in this video but remove the wooden cover and look down. On each side of the pendulum there is a screw. Loosen the screws. The pendulum pivot support will then move right or left as one set of holes are elongated. This will allow you to adjust the pendulum and bring it back into beat.
Thanks, I've seen the videos where some metronomes can be easily adjusted via screws. This metronome didn't have that option to adjust as you describe. The uneven weight at the bottom of the pendulum was the issue. It left the factory without first being balanced. To fix it, adjustment of weight was the only solution. I did a quick fix in the video. I no longer have the metronome; but, a better, more professional and tedious, option of fixing this metronome would have been to add or remove weight to one side. Using a hot soldering iron would have accomplished this by adding weight (solder) on lighter side, or melting off weight (lead) on the heavier side, of pendulum's lead weight until perfectly balanced.
Hi Ric, I am an artist and have a bit of a random question for my current art piece. I need to know if it is possible to remove a metronome's 'ticker' so it is silent - help!!!
I have a Seth Thomas vintage metronome which had an uneven beat, after seeing your vid and a couple of others that adjusted the weight I looked down at the weight from the top side and the bottom side and saw that it was sitting at a slight angle from straight on center, I twisted it with enough pressure to readjust its position. The beat is now even. Thanks.
What you should do to set the beat is NOT bend the pendulum as shown in this video but remove the wooden cover and look down. On each side of the pendulum there is a screw. Loosen the screws. The pendulum pivot support will then move right or left as one set of holes are elongated. This will allow you to adjust the pendulum and bring it back into beat.
Thanks, I've seen the videos where some metronomes can be easily adjusted via screws. This metronome didn't have that option to adjust as you describe. The uneven weight at the bottom of the pendulum was the issue. It left the factory without first being balanced. To fix it, adjustment of weight was the only solution. I did a quick fix in the video. I no longer have the metronome; but, a better, more professional and tedious, option of fixing this metronome would have been to add or remove weight to one side. Using a hot soldering iron would have accomplished this by adding weight (solder) on lighter side, or melting off weight (lead) on the heavier side, of pendulum's lead weight until perfectly balanced.
This worked really well, no money wasted. Thanks a lot!
Worked for me! Thanks.
What model is it? I want one.
Hi Ric, I am an artist and have a bit of a random question for my current art piece. I need to know if it is possible to remove a metronome's 'ticker' so it is silent - help!!!
You can certainly remove the tickers. I think it would continue to swing.
@@SxGaming3390 I think on some (like mine) the "ticker" is the mechanism moving through and pushing the pendulum to keep it going