{"id":124,"date":"2013-02-11T23:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T23:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiswickclockrepair.wordpress.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2013-02-11T23:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T23:37:43","slug":"john-tucker-of-tiverton-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"John Tucker of Tiverton &#8211; part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parts 1 and 2 of this series looked at the faults found in a c1785 long case clock movement. Now I start on the repair.<\/p>\n<p>Before any work could be done on the bushes in the plates I needed to repair the barrels and great wheels. Here is the strike barrel great wheel mounted in a six-jaw chuck on a Schaublin lathe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0349.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81\" alt=\"IMAG0349\" src=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0349.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0347.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" alt=\"IMAG0347\" src=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/imag0347.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been bored out true, a brass rod has been turned to a press fit into the hole to form a bush, and the bush is being skimmed back to the wheel thickness prior to centering, drilling and broaching the correct size hole for the barrel arbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts 1 and 2 of this series looked at the faults found in a c1785 long case clock movement. Now I start on the repair. Before any work could be done on the bushes in the plates I needed to repair the barrels and great wheels. Here is the strike barrel great wheel mounted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,19,29,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}