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Description: Guide shows how to quickly, easily and accurately make drills from needles and piano wire for repivoting and other uses. 16 illustrated pages with a soft cover. Published in 1996.
Description: 21-page full color soft cover booklet identifies & illustrates what you need to start a clock repair business & how to lay out your work space. Identifies vendors & anticipated cash outlay. By Tom Seaman.
Description: 24-page soft cover book outlines instructions to make this attachment used to grind and polish pivots, as well as a means to drill work in the small lathe. Suitable for scaling up to larger lathes....More Details »
Description: Based on Clockmakers Newsletter articles published from 1987-2008. Repair tips & projects arranged by subject for easy reference. Sections devoted to mainspring & bushing methods. Fully indexed. Soft cover. 190 pages.
Description: 24 pages, 40 plus pictures and several line drawings. Demonstrates the step-by-step disassembly, cleaning, reassembly, and lubrication of an old watchmaker’s lathe (without damaging it), as well...More Details »
Description: Based on Clockmakers Newsletter articles published from 1987-2008. Includes tool reviews & how to use tools, hand tools you can make, workshop projects, & general repair tips. Fully indexed. Soft cover. 181 pages.
Description: By Ian Beilby. Based on the acclaimed series that appeared in Clocks Magazine. Covers the history and development of pocket watches, how they work, dismantling & cleaning, repairs & tools, dating,...More Details »
Description: Step by step instructions on dismantling, cleaning, repair and assembly of cuckoo clocks. Also sections on music movement principles and troubleshooting. Large, clear photos accompany the text. 9-1/2” x 11”. Soft cover. 58 pages.
Description: Valuable and informative booklet reveals how to calculate clock trains. Includes a list of train counts by clock movement manufacture. Copyright 2010 with a soft cover.
Description: Traces the manufacture of clocks in America from the earliest European settlers through the mass production of the 19th century. Includes sections on tall case clocks, Banjos, Pillar & Scrolls,...More Details »
Description: Price guide supplement to Part#15183 (Gilbert Clocks). Updates all prices. In addition, it has many new pages of clocks, movements and material not previously documented. 113 pages with a hard...More Details »
Description: 752 illustrated pages. The most complete listing available. From pocket watches to grandfather clocks. Original prices and current market values. Includes a brief history. New, improved hard...More Details »
Description: Volume #1. Uses original manufacturer's catalogs to illustrate clocks from Ansonia to Welch. Includes a year 2005 updated price guide. 336 pages. Published in 1999 and hard bound. The price...More Details »
Description: More than 50 companies are represented in this fully illustrated volume. 504 pages with a hard cover. Comes with an 2000 price guide, which is available as a separate item as Part#20394. Published in 1994 with a hard cover..
Description: Over 2200 photos and illustrations with a 2000 price guide. 520 pages with a soft cover. Published in 1997. Price update only available as Part #20393.
Description: Hard bound book illustrates and provides current pricing on a large variety of Ingraham clocks and watches. 384 pages. Published in 1998. Comes with a 1999 price guide. Price guide only sold as Part #20389.
Description: Illustrated price guide includes a short history. 448 pages with a 2000 price supplement (available separately as Part #20396). Published in 1998.
Description: For those with intermediate repair skills. Includes detailed information on repivoting, lantern pinion repair, tooth replacement, making bushings, escapement repair, making a rack & snail, making &...More Details »
Description: This "must have" 50-page booklet lists most batteries and helps select the proper battery for you watch. Also includes the AWI reference numbers, dimension chart, and substitution chart. Published in 1998 in soft cover.
Description: Milestone book illustrates American clocks from the early period of machine manufacture, the 1st half ot the 19th century. Also includes sections on Ball, Lux & Keebler, & Tiffany Never Wind. 352...More Details »
Description: Spectacular book produced for the 20th annual NAWCC Seminar. Illustrates in color the finest of the clocks on display with many movement & detailed closeup views. If you collect or are interested...More Details »
Description: A textbook on strike mechanisms. Illustrated with photos and drawings to clarify explanations. 90 pages with a soft cover. Published in 1996.
Description: Begins with letting down the mainspring, then disassembly, cleaning, repair and assembly. Provides basics on escapements, pendulums and bushings. Includes mainspring length formulas, lubrication...More Details »
Description: Noted authority Roy Hovey discusses servicing, repair, cleaning, lubricating and restoration of Hermle movements. 99 pages with a soft cover. Published in 1994.
Description: Illustrated book includes known Sessions clocks made between 1903 to 1968 along with many original prices & a 2002 price guide. 336 pages. Hard cover.
Description: 10th edition lists over 500 back plates to aid in the identification, the manufacturer, mainsprings, suspension springs and suspension units. There's information on history, dating and repair....More Details »
Description: Excellent book on diagnosing and repairing clocks. Tips on repairs for people with limited workshop equipment. Over 250 illustrations. 176 pages. Softbound. Published in 1998.