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Very Laboured Westminster Chiming Clock
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7-day movement experiencing slowdown of chime after 4_5 days. Any ideas welcome.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm assuming that your clock has what is generally called an "eight day movement", and that that it has three winding arbors: one for the time train; one for the strike train; and one for the chime train. Obviously, since the chime train uses up a lot of power playing its "tunes" the spring runs down faster than the other two. First thing to try is to wind the clock up twice a week instead of once and see if this solves the problem...And wind all three springs up tightly. It's a myth that you can "over wind a clock"
Here's a picture of an unwound mainspring sitting next to an almost completely wound one. As you can see, the average human aint gonna break that baby by "over winding"!:) http:// i57.tin ypic.co m/3501i l5.jpg
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