Finally got around to restoring the antique Clock my dad rebuilt half a century ago.
Over the years, the electromechanical movement deteriorated and seized up. I started by disassembling the major components.
i taped the small brass screws onto index cards, in the pattern they came out.
The part that made me smile was the metal coffee can that my dad used for the chassis that held the clock movement.
Not only was the cast brass clock body exceptional for an antique but the clock face held up too, being made in Germany back when John Browning was designing his first automatic pistols.
The hubs of the clock hands weren’t compatible with the new movement that I installed but I wanted to use the hands that my dad cut from brass sheet with a jewelers saw. I brazed the old hands onto the new hubs to preserve them in the restoration.
The brilliant way my dad came up with to use a coffee can as the mount for the clock movement and clock face that slid through the clock body from the rear to be perfectly positioned out the front worked perfectly.
The clock face is free-floating. The brass bezel around the glass cover remain independent.
To change the battery, four screws come off the back plate so a new battery can be installed.
The antique brass clock is back in business and it keeps time while looking great in the house.
My dad would smile at this restoration.