El Manual de reparación paso a paso más completo y actualizado para propietarios de relojes de cuco. Cientos de fotografías y diagramas. Dedicado al Reloj de Cuco. Versión 2021 actualizada.
* Tiene un reloj especial para usted que ha dejado de funcionar, tal vez un regalo o una reliquia familiar? Este libro es para ti.* Te gusta jugar con cosas mecánicas? Este libro es para ti.
* Ha desarmado un reloj pero no puede volver a armarlo? Este libro es para ti.
* Te fascinan los relojes, tienes varios que has comprado pero no funcionan? Este libro es para ti.
Sea valiente. Asume tu proyecto. Este libro lo tomará de la mano en cada paso del camino y lo guiará hacia el éxito. PUEDES HACERLO.
Por qué deja de funcionar un reloj de cuco?
Lo más probable es que se deba a que las obras están sucias, necesitan lubricación o, muy probablemente, ambas cosas. Cuando el reloj se detiene, piense en ello como "la luz del aceite está encendida". Es un "grito de ayuda". Sin aceite, las piezas metálicas se muelen entre sí provocando un desgaste y daños graves.
El aceite también atrae el polvo que puede hacer que el aceite se vuelva "gomoso" y agregue resistencia a su funcionamiento hasta que ya no pueda superar la fricción.
Si un reloj se aceita con regularidad [cada tres o cinco años], es probable que solo necesite volver a aceitarlo.
Si se permite que el reloj funcione hasta que se detenga, la única forma segura de repararlo es sacar las piezas de su caja, desmontar las piezas, limpiar, reparar y volver a montar el movimiento con aceite nuevo y el ajuste correcto.Este libro le enseñará cómo hacer todo esto.
Cubierto: Regula, Baduf, Hubert Herr, Schatz, Rack & Snail, rueda de conteo, fuelles y pesos, identificación de movimiento, limpieza y engrase, procedimiento de reparación paso a paso completo.
Lloyd, D. Rod: -
As a kid, whenever I saw an old clock at a jumble sale or going cheap, I would buy it and take it apart to see how it worked. I don't think I ever got one back together again, but I enjoyed tinkering with them.
Twenty years later when I was getting married, now living in the USA, Auntie Florrie wrote to me saying I could now have my Grandfathers clock.
I arranged to have the clock shipped over and it was proudly placed in the entrance hall to my home. It was built in about 1880 in Maghull England by a local clockmaker, [before the electric light was invented], had a stately mahogany case, hand-painted dial and ran nicely.
After a few years, it stopped. I was frustrated that I didn't know what was wrong with it or how to get it going. I ended up having it serviced by a local repair shop and it ran again. I was fascinated with the clock.
In 1995, my family decided to spend a year in England including putting the kids in school. It was a big challenge to arrange to swap houses with an English family. Finally, we were settled, and the kids started school, my wife was volunteering at a local charity shop and suddenly I had time on my hands.
I read the paper that morning and came across an ad for a clock course starting nearby at Manchester City College. I called the college and they told me it was a three-year course, one day per week. I explained I was only in the country for one year, so I persuaded them to let me take the course, coming all three days.
I enjoyed the course and did very well. The final exam took several weeks, making a 'suspension bridge' from scratch to exact specifications, restoring several old clocks and watches. I documented the process and took the extensive final written exam all set by BHI [British Horological Institute]. I did pass the exams and became a Horologist.
25 years later I teach clock repair classes and 'pass it on'. This is the class workbook.
