And here's today's example of old and new joined together - I just finished this at lunchtime. It's my parents old mantle clock which I think they were given as a wedding present, which would make it 1939. It hasn't worked since the early 1980s - and was pretty inaccurate throughout my childhood. I've now fitted a quartz movement, the particular skeleton movement I chose involved an interesting drilling job over the weekend cutting a dead straight and circular 130mm diameter hole!
Cheers,
Andy
P.S. I feel I should add that they threw it out in the late 1970s when Dad was given a carriage clock as a retirement present - I rescued it from the bin, took it with me to university and used it as long as I could, and was determined to get it working properly one day - did take me a while to get around to it!!!
And here's today's example of old and new joined together - I just finished this at lunchtime. It's my parents old mantle clock which I think they were given as a wedding present, which would make it 1939. It hasn't worked since the early 1980s - and was pretty inaccurate throughout my childhood. I've now fitted a quartz movement, the particular skeleton movement I chose involved an interesting drilling job over the weekend cutting a dead straight and circular 130mm diameter hole!
Cheers,
Andy
P.S. I feel I should add that they threw it out in the late 1970s when Dad was given a carriage clock as a retirement present - I rescued it from the bin, took it with me to university and used it as long as I could, and was determined to get it working properly one day - did take me a while to get around to it!!!
