Pendulum Clock

20 reviews for Pendulum Clock

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Michael Hancock – March 31, 2020

   This clock is extremely well produced and gave a huge amount of satisfaction to me. I took about two evenings to properly assemble it and another hour or so to fine tune it. It will run for eight hours now and keeps amazingly good time. There are some precautions and a couple of tips. One has to be very careful not to change the position of the yellow collars when fitting the wheels to the frame and to check them after assembly. Then, if you have some mechanical aptitude you should be able to figure out how to fine-tune their position so that the shafts will turn freely and not be bound by the frame. Second thing is, problem the most important (and it has been referred to by LUUK, a previous reviewer), the pendulum assembly really needs to be glued up at the escapement end, the pallets to the hub and the pendulum rod to the other side of the hub, otherwise there is enough lost motion to cause it not to beat reliably. I only used wax on some of the upper shafts that move fairly quickly and on the escapement mechanism, the faces of the pallets.
   I would also thoroughly recommend the video put together by the reviewer early on in these reviews. I am a bit of a clock nut and an engineer but I must say this is one of the most rewarding projects that I have done. I even managed to glance at the TV occasionally that my wife was watching and had a drink on hand for most of the procedure!

2. 

   Rated 2 out of 5

   Lewis Sherman – March 24, 2020

   Don’t know if all those highly rated a I’ve comments are real or planted. The lock was great fun to build but runs for LESS than a few seconds. I’m an engineer as well and efforts to fix not working.