Use a taper pin to secure the hand with the washer on top of it. Clockworks offers an assortment of 100 clock hand washers that includes all the styles above. The washer may have a small square hole, or large, oblong or round hole. These secure the minute hand as an alternative to the hand nut. Some antique mechanical clocks require a clock hand washer and a tapered pin instead. However, not all clocks require a hand nut. German hand nuts fit most post war German made mechanical clocks, with the exception being a few large grandfather clocks. So, the American clock hand nuts fit many of the mechanical time strikes that were so popular. The cuckoo hand nuts fit about 80% of the post war German made cuckoo clocks. Generally speaking, what we have to offer in the three types of clock hand nuts will cover most of the post 1930 Mechanical clocks. However, with even all of these assortments, there is a chance none of them will work on the clock. This includes cuckoo hand nuts, American clock hand nuts, or German hand nuts.
Subsequently, any hand nut we offer, may, or may not, work.
1950s swing clock mini grandfather trial#
In other words, it is literally trial and error. However, prior to around 1930 there is no telling what will work.
There were not many standards on what the hand nut size should be on the early clocks. So, the hand nuts Clockworks offer are for movements made after the 1930's. As we said before, the older the clock the harder things are to find. Bookmark.One of the most common parts a Mechanical clock needs is the hand nut. She was said to have roamed the forests, protecting nymphs and woodland creatures, forsaking marriage, and championing the underdogs of the world. The statue itself is the clock’s namesake the figure is Diana, the Roman virgin goddess known as the “Maiden Huntress”. The clock itself is approximately two feet tall, with the mechanism and the swing fixed on the statue’s left arm. Once the clock is set in motion, the swinging action in the pendulum (inside the miniature movement) keeps the top and bottom swinging to and fro. The secret of this model lies in the top ball, which actually houses an eight-day time-only miniature pendulum clock movement. The power and general function of both the clock motion and the hand movement appear to an observer to be mysterious – a bit of an optical illusion. It belongs to the family style known as “Mystery Clocks”. Although this style of clock first appeared in their catalogs in 1901, this particular clock is dated 1895, making it quite possibly one of the first ever produced by Ansonia. This is an Ansonia “Huntress Ball Swing” clock, an American swing clock first produced by this company at the turn of the twentieth century.
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