Repairing Old Clocks & Watches By Anthony J. Whiten (Book) - HB17129

Repairing Old Clocks & Watches By Anthony J Whiten. 276 pages, with over 270 line drawings. The first book wriiten for the amateur. If you do not have the right tools or they are too expensive to buy, the author describes how to make alterations out of simple and easily obtainable materials. the book describes how to dismantle and assemble movements, what may go wrong with them and how to set faults right. describes how to oil the right parts and how to restore cases in all stages of decay. Includes step-by-step demonstrations of how to do things, to diagrams of movements identifyimg each part and its position in the movement. This book concentrates on clocks and watches with verge, cylinder and lever escapements, from safe dismantling to repair and making new parts to reassembly.