{"id":201,"date":"2014-06-02T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiswickclockrepair.wordpress.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2014-06-02T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:52:44","slug":"roberts-of-ruabon-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Roberts of Ruabon &#8211; part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research and discussions with other clock repairers has not come to a definite conclusion regarding the strange escapement in this clock, which you may recall runs for a while then simply stops, probably from lack of impulse. However, opinion is just on the side of the escape wheel being back-to-front, so as I had the clock apart I decided to reverse it on it&#8217;s collet. The easiest way to test the escapement was to reassemble the going train in the plates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/img_0076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-203\" src=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/img_0076.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"IMG_0076\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/img_0076.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/img_0076-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/img_0076-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immediately I added the weight (no pendulum yet) the escapement started to operate &#8211; always a good sign! But I didn&#8217;t want to try it for too long due to the state of the pivots and holes.<\/p>\n<p>So back to the workshop, turn and polish the pivots and re-bush the plates for the going train only at this stage. Reassemble, onto the test stand, and away it went! You can see a short video on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vM6te1_i0-8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vM6te1_i0-8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I can clean the whole mechanism and repair the strike train parts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research and discussions with other clock repairers has not come to a definite conclusion regarding the strange escapement in this clock, which you may recall runs for a while then simply stops, probably from lack of impulse. However, opinion is just on the side of the escape wheel being back-to-front, so as I had [&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":[2,20,24,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iantrowbridge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}