Choosing the Perfect Spring for Your Barreled Spring Clock by Richard Hansen

Choosing the Perfect Spring for Your Barreled Spring Clock by Richard Hansen

Correctly choosing a proper replacement main spring when a clock has missing springs (or the wrong springs installed) is a very common problem that clock repairmen often face. From the beginning of his career as a clock repairman, Richard Hansen noticed that when his customers brought him their clocks to be repaired, he would often see evidence of poor repairs, poor techniques and even gross mistakes inflicted on them by previous repairmen. He wondered why he should believe that every spring he found was, in fact, the perfect one for the clock in question? And when he found a spring where the outer end had obviously been re-worked (thus making the spring a bit shorter), he wondered how he would know if it was not then too short? Was it possible to redo the end again, or will that make the spring impossibly too short then? This book is a result of his work to answer some of those questions about choosing springs. It provides a methodology whereby answers can be found by using a set of look-up tables. It's a solution intended for the use of clock repairmen at their bench to find those answers with a minimum of time and effort needed for any given clock in front of them.

Richard Hansen is an electrical engineer who graduated from Auburn University. He worked for years in California in the Silicon Valley as a design engineer. After taking night classes in clock repair, the hobby interest in clocks he had developed over the years grew to become a career change. Richard is a second generation clock person (his father owned 800 clocks at one time). Since changing careers, Richard has taught beginning and advanced clock repair in California, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut - to both amateurs and professional clock repairmen. For the last fifteen years, he has owned and operated a clock repair store in New York state.

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ISBN 13	9780989713603
ISBN 10	0989713601
Title	Choosing the Perfect Spring for Your Barreled Spring Clock
Author	Richard Hansen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Goofy Rooster Publishing
Year published	2013-07-30
Number of pages	78
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