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music box is broke
Hi, now those of you who know me, will know that I aint no scientist/engineer.
However, I have an old music box which was bought for me when I was a little girl when I lived in Hong Kong. However, I have noticed today, to the pantomine style surprise of my 8 year old son (with the hot feet) who claims that, how strange this is the first time ever in all his years of meddling with my stuff, that
it is running very slow and practically stops. I've looked at the mechanism, said some very convincing Hummmms and ahhhs, but obviously, music box mechanisms are largely closed units. The fan goes round, all the cogs appear to be interlocking fine with no worn teeth. It winds just about, there doesn't feel to be a loose spring, i can push the mechanism round, but it stops on it's own as if it is running out of 'wind'.
Can this be fixed, is it something I could do (I do have a GCSE in CDT, A grade, brag brag), or do I need a specialist little chappie in a small workshop full of tiny keys and small tools???? (next to the Keymaker's house?)
Any help, as always, is very much appreciated......
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