The Clock Repairer's Handbook

By Laurie Penman

Book Overview

Provides all the necessary information to troubleshoot any clock's problems and to make sure your clock continues to run in perfect order for generations to come--from tools and equipment to strike and chime work.

Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast. The Clock Repairer's Handbook provides information on how to repair and maintain a clock's delicate mechanics and teaches the basics of clock repairing through detailed, easy-to-follow instructions and more than three hundred instructive diagrams and illustrations.

Advice and directions for tools and equipment, cleaning clock movements, pivoting and mounting, fixing train faults and gears, the importance of lubrication and friction, suspensions and crutches, weight and spring drives, and how to make sure the strike and chimes work on the hour, every hour.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1602399611
• ISBN13: 9781602399617
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

You Need This!

The Clock Repairer's Handbook by Laurie Penman If you own a goo clock (especially a grandfather clock or other keepsake one) this book is a MUST for you, since clock-repairers are a rare breed in today's world. With the invention of cheap clocks and watches that are easier to throw away than to repair, few people became clock makers, formerly one of the most important crafts in the world. Now, if your heirloom clock ceases to work there is no one to repair it. With this excellent, illustrated, step-by-step guide book, even a novice or beginner can build or repair a clock using the most basic tools which you probably already have in your home. Penman has been repairing clocks for over thirty years and has authored three other books on the subject . The worod is very fortunate that he has shared his expertise in a form that every home can keep, just in case! EXCELLENT!

you need this book

Excellent book!! Very detailed. It will require study, but is easily understood. And it's ALL in there- ftom nubie to expert. I've purchased 5 books, and this is the last one. I'll never need another.

Laurie who ?

I have to say I was impressed with this book. The opening chapter describes how to find clock faults; this might seem trivial until you come across a clock that has no obvious fault. Laurie takes you though some great practises for isolating a problem. Whilst (yes I'm a fellow Englishman) not a particularly entertaining book it covers many topics of clock theory in great depth. I would recommend this book for the enthusiastic novice thru to the hardened collector. For the casual clock novice, unless you have a sleeping problem, I would suggest finding some easier reading.I hope this helps you in your decision ...

Penman'b book is great book for a beginner to own

I have read the Penman book twice - cover to cover. I refer to it now and then when I want to look up something. This is a great book for the beginning, amateur, or hobbist clock maker/worker like myself. It has lots of tips you just don't see in other books. Down to earth stuff. I especially liked the last chapter on tools. Great to read to find out what kind of tools you might want to buy or make. All in all I highly recommend this book.

antique clock repairing

As a beginner in clock repair I found this book to be invaluable. Although there is alot of technical information, which isn't necessary to an amateur, I have been able to repair 7 mantel clocks which could not have been fixed by 'trial and error'. This book really gives on insight to the internal workings of mechanical clocks and should be in any amatuers library.