Sometimes I can be too enthusiastic in repairing a clock. For example, I have a Regula 25 cuckoo clock movement that I bought on eBay, to practice repairing cuckoo clocks. In the process of cleaning it, I polished the scratches off of the ends of two levers – a bad idea.
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Is That Cuckoo a 1-Day or an 8-Day Clock?
Because of the economics of cuckoo clock repair, you can easily find old, dirty cuckoo clock movements on eBay for a fraction of what a new movement costs. These movements come with no documentation, so you get to work out which chains, weights, and bellows (cuckoo whistles) are right for them.
In this post I calculate the run time (1 day vs. 8 day) of a cuckoo movement I recently bought, and the Links Per Foot of the chain it uses. These two numbers tell me what parts to buy to make a clock case for this movement.
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