30 Hour Grandfather Clock, a General chit chat

C1750 30 hour Grandfather Clock , 30 hour clocks generally single weight but do strike, I enjoy Repairing them, im not seeing many knower days but I’m sure there are plenty out there.

[@Seal0626]

I have a clock very much like this, currently in a horribly damaged case because the builders who were told to carefully cover and protect it misheard "it's not a family heirloom"(my mother bought it) as "it's worthless trash, kick it around and splatter plaster onto it as much as you like and if you want to see if you can wrench the door off its hinges, hey, have fun!". To my untrained eye, the working parts look pretty much identical aside from the fact that the weight's on a rope rather than a chain. In fact it's so similar, aside from the art and signature, that it makes me wonder if the faces were mass produced and then customised by the individual clockmakers - the cutout for the date is identical.
I had to do a tiny little repair to it some time ago, it would run and then stick at about twenty to - turned out that the lever that triggers the chiming mechanism was sitting a tiny bit too low down, so that rather than come up underneath and lift it, the peg on the gear would jam into it end-on. Somehow all I had to do was push it up a little bit, and it didn't fall down there again.
Anyhow, thank you for this video, you've helped me to put a rough date on how old my clock is.

[@jamesnicholson3313]

Thankyou for explaining this so well, overall it has a lovely face, it makes your job so much harder when the movement has been tampered with by an inexperienced person previously, however many thanks for doing such a beautiful restoration of the movement. Jim from AUSTRALIA.

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

Glad it was helpful!

[@paull2613]

Thank you John clear and concise easy to follow, really enjoyed it fella

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

Glad you enjoyed it 👍

[@robertclatworthy1857]

I’ve just bought an old grandfather clock with one weight on chains. I’ve always had two weighted grandfather clocks so not sure how to wind it up and where to put the weight? Does that make sense?

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

It’s a 30 hour clock , needs to be wound up every day ,the weight will hook onto a pulley that’s on the chain and the chain is pulled to wind the clock up.

[@davidstorm4015]

If the face is original to the movement, it can't be a 1750's or 1760's clock. White painted dials were not produced until 1770 at the very earliest. From the style of this one, I would say it is almost certainly 1790's or early 1800's. Early painted dials didn't have colourful motifs in the corners, they had gold painted spandrel-like decorations, the coloured corners came later, as in this example. The style of hands too suggests the same range of dates, i.e. 1790's or early 1800's, it could be as late as around 1810.

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

The thing that attracted me to this clock is the escapment set up,

[@booglewho86]

C1830

[@roymasters5181]

brilliant video, quick question with a 30 hour clock the continuous chain - does it go over first gear then down to the weight then back up and over second gear then down to a donut counter weight then back up. Its the last back up I dont know where it goes, can you help mate Roy

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

I have just seen your question I’ll send you a message tomorrow,
Regards john

[@stevemcdougall3364]

Hi john where are you based ive got some clocks that need attention

[@clockrepairsmerseyside8303]

Hi we are booked up at the moment but I would need to see some pictures of the clocks as I will not take on all clocks, I am based in wavertree Liverpool you can email pictures to me [e-mail].
Regards John