Clock repairers handbook

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Shelves: non-fiction , diy , metalwork. A modern book on the subject, it assumes you have a small lathe and some form of indexing so that you can cut replacement clock gears. Includes basic as well as advanced repairs for 20th century clocks. If you're mucking around with real antiques, stop reading this immediately. You need to find some cheap clocks to repair, leave the family heirlooms alone. Steven S.

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Please place them in the order that they should read. I am a complete beginner to clock repairing and building. Good question, David. Most of us base our opinions on what we have read, so if we haven't read all the books you list, we can only recommend what we know. I found the Balcomb books to be more complete, and easier to read for a beginner than Goodman's or DeCarle's books.

Goodman's book is based on classes he teaches and does have good information. I found DeCarle's book to be perhaps the next step after Balcomb's books. The other repair books I don't have. The Modern Clock is more advanced, but has much information that would be helpful designing and building a clock mechanism. Perhaps others with a more complete library might have opinions regarding the other books.

Frank Menez Deceased. David, I should mention that DeCarle has a section on making a fusee timepiece that would interest you from the building perspective.

Sep 23, 0 0 0. As I have all he books you mention and have used them all I will try to do what has been requested, cut the list to 6, and order it in my - admittedly subjective - evaluation of usefullness to a beginner: 1. This Old ClockDavid Goodman 2. Clock Repair BasicsSteven Conover 5. The Modern Clock Ward Goodrich I hope others will also attempt to to share their selection of six and their priorities.

Sorry for slow response, just made trip from Ca. I will post what 6 books I end up ordering. This is more helpful for me, a beginner, than you may realize. DeCarle has a section on making a fusee timepiece that would interest you from the building perspective.

Frank Menez said:. Fortunat Mueller-Maerki said:. David, whoever said "there is more than one way to skin a cat" could easily have been talking about clock repair. You will notice on the clock repair forum that we don't always agree about methods to do a job. Neither do the repair books. We each adapt the methods that work the best for us with the tools we have available.

The manuals are just a helpful guide. I thank everyone for their help. The following have been ordered and received. It was very convenient and fast as I am now in AZ and the books were order from Timesavers in Scottsdale.

Clock Repair BasicsSteven Conover 6. This Old ClockDavid Goodman 5. Russjo Registered User. Nov 14, 3 0 1. I was taught by a clockmker in London and he gave me my first copy. Russjo said:. GaryJH Registered User. Nov 14, 26 0 0 Brisbane, Australia Country. I have in my small clock book collection already David Goodman's book and 3 of Steven Conover's books.

Though I would like Balcomb's books as well. So I am hoping that someone know where to get both books. Timesavers only has the Clock Repair Primer. Many thanks. Grolb Registered User. Dec 11, 26 0 1 Central Massachusetts Country. GaryJH said:. Last edited: Jan 28, Charles E.

Golden Circle. I see you travel between Northern California and Arizona. Sometime schedule your passing through on I to stop in La Verne Just north of Pomona some Wednesday evening between 6 and 9 and visit our long running clock class. It recently shifted from Adult School to independent status run by the students with a very qualified teacher in charge. Seeing the actual operations and equipment can be much more helpful to most people rather than just reading about it.

You can contact me through this message board and I will put you in touch with the teacher who can verify your travel schedule. We have people from Washington and Illinois who visit us on their vacations here in Southern California. I just got word back from Murray Clocks that they don't sell books anymore, so that source is gone. Anybody got any other sources? Aug 25, 7 18 Country Region. Last edited: Feb 9, Philip Balcomb died in , and I suspect his book is now out of print.

His first book, the Clock Repair Primer, was printed in installments in the NAWCC bulletin back in the early 's, but his second book never got this treatment, unfortunately.

It appears his first book is still available from sources such as Timesavers, at a reasonable price. Jan 8, 1, 18 38 USA. There are, of course, in addition to Amazon,the various used book search engines for consortiums of independent book dealers, such as Alibris, Adall or ABE once published on paper as the American Book Exchange.

Then there are the specialized horological dealers, but most of these, such as Shenton Books, in England, are in Europe, which causes us Americans exorbitant shipping costs and payment hassles. The clueless non-specialized dealers fix their prices from other dealer's prices on the internet, plus markup- thus those ridiculous figures.

She would probably be willing to keep an eye out for a specific title if you asked. Also, NAWCC members have online access to all the old Bulletin issues as pdfs- this alone is worth the price of membership. Finally, a plea: please, instruct your heirs or executor to give your horological books, papers and ephemera to the NAWCC Library.

They wouldn't get much from a dealer anyway, and they might very well otherwise end up in a dumpster. Let someone else have the pleasure of learning from them!