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chrisbet
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The cold weather is keeping me indoors and with no cheap lenses available to restore I have moved on to something a bit bigger!
As intricate as a lens and cleanliness and lubrication just as important...
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Graham Whistler
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Super old clock, can it still keep good time?
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chrisbet
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It does now - I stripped it right down and cleaned / polished the gears/shafts/spring drums/etc and gave it a new spring suspension for the pendulum. The face was stripped down to the component parts and the brass plate stripped, polished and lacquered. I spray painted the central disc with a gold metallic as it was impossible to clean the textured surface, I left the silvered chapter ring and quarters alone. The case just needed a good wax and polish.
It stikes correctly now but the Westminster chimes are off and I can't work out why that is.
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novicius
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Lovely Job,Well Done 
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chrisbet
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novicius wrote:
Lovely Job,Well Done
Thanks
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Bob Bowen
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What a super job. Kemps still have a shop in Union Street in Bristol. The city centre area known now as Broadmead was redeveloped in the 1950's after WW2 bombing. But kept the street pattern and names.
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chrisbet
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Yes, I know, I worked in Bristol on and off in the 1980s. I believe the clock dates from around the 1920s - modern reproductions sell for around £1500 so I have no idea what it is worth but as a family heirloom it is going nowhere!
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Iain
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Its a nice clock Chris.
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