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Kevin Have you looked at Simplicity. I think it was a  Wallis and Stevens

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Edited By roy entwistle on 29/09/2020 18:02:19

Sounds like a typical case of clock being moved with pendulum in place damaging suspension spring

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What, if any, machinery do you have access to ?

Martin The one on top would be the regulator it it were a traction engine or a stationary engine.

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Just make sure you get rid of all Oak shavings from all tools.

Odd numbers in BA were never popular in industry. At least they weren't where I worked. And Stuart Turner often used a lot of odd sizes for lots of things like crank shaft bearings, crank pins etc  

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Edited By roy entwistle on 21/09/2020 09:01:55

Thank you gentlemen. All I needed to know was how to clean the oil off the cable.

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Hello fellow horologists ( bikers may be of some help also ) I have a skeleton clock to repair. The fusee cable has become detached at the spring barrel end. The trouble I have is that it has been well oiled. How to clean the oil off so that I can resolder the nipple. For any help from the biking community it's a steel Bowden type cable

Thanks in advance

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There used to be a proper guillotine in Halifax up Gibbet Street. I don't know if it's still there I haven't been for a long time

A book on what subject ?

Try it and see

A photograph of the back of the board might help if possible

I came across these guillotines some 30 or 40 years ago. Judging by the first photograph, the blade is nearing the end of it's life. The securing screws are at the top of the slots. Make sure that it is supported along it's full length when being reground or it will end up sharp at the ends but not in the middle.

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Bob The OP is talking about a single point pinion cutter not pivots. He's got that pleasure yet to come

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I'd like to see photos of the escapement if possible

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If I remember rightly the firebox stays also hold the hornplates so I would suggest that they must be silver soldered

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IanT posted " Maybe my Society is unique in having lots of folk with great ideas but not so many to actually make them happen."

Believe me Ian your society is not unique. I am in a photographic society that has the same problem

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Norm forget my post above. It could be done but I shouldn't really recommend it.

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If you have the cap screwed into a hole in a bar bolted to the table and go round it clockwise with a normal cutter it shouldn't unscrew, it should tighten up

Had several parcels delivered by DPD No problems. email to give time slot, always on time, email after to say it's been delivered.