How to Change the Time on a Grandfather Clock

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Tip 1 - Grandfather Clocks: Setting The Time - The Clock Depot

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by john morritt | permalink

These instructions for setting the time on your Grandfather Clock will work on most major brands made since 1985 and many key-wound wall clocks also.

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Tip 2 - Adjusting the Pendulum on your Grandfather Clock -

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ondrej Chvala | permalink

How to make your grandfather clock keep good time by Adjusting the Pendulum on your Grandfather Clock. Moving the nut on your pendulum will change the speed

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Tip 3 - How To Adjust and RegulateThe Time Of Your Grandfather Clock

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Rusne | permalink

How To Adjust The Time Of Your Grandfather Clock of your grandfather clock. Regulate the grandfather clock if it is too fast or too slow.

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Tip 4 - How to Change the Time on a Grandfather Clock | eHow

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mu 00e 1rcia Santos | permalink

Changing the time on a grandfather clock is a two-fold process. You change the indication of the time by moving the hands on the face; you change the timekeeping by adjusting the pendulum. The pendulum regulates the clock's time. If the clock runs slow or fast, it's usually not a problem with the movement (the innards of the clock). Simply use the...

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Tip 5 - How to Wind a Grandfather Clock

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by dcorteztec | permalink

Clocks made in the old-fashioned tradition require winding in order to operate. Grandfather clocks are freestanding timepieces of this type, controlled by the fall of weights and the movement of a pendulum in a tall case. Follow these...
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