Saturday, August 18, 2018

Things You Can Do To Ensure Grandfather Clock Maintenance

By Sandra Williams


Owning a long cased clock is prestigious. However, whenever it is not well maintained, then this can make it lose its purpose and significance. To ensure that it gives quite a long service then you ought to keep it in check. If you do not want to incur the cost of a technician, then you can do the following to ensure grandfather clock maintenance.

Even though your room does not have the actual access to dust, sometimes it can be due to the furry clothing that people use. You thus need to keep cleaning off any dusty particles on either the inside or the outside of the watch. Make use of a soft a duster. You can as well use a feather to do the same dusting process. It is one of the best materials to use since it does not exert much weight on the delicate parts.

The wood used in the making needs to be polished in about every two weeks to three months. It should as well be waxed in order to ensure that it remains in a great condition. The polish must be applied on a soft cloth before it is taken to the gadget. You need to be very keen to ensure that only the wooden part is polished. The glass part and the face should be avoided.

Use a non-ammonia cleaner and soft padded cloth to make sure that the glass part is cleansed. Spray the liquid on the soft cloth then use it to do the wiping. Ensure that you open both the big and the small doors on the gadget in order to ensure that you do a thorough clean up on them. This process should be done on a weekly basis.

The inside is very delicate and thus should not be opened on a regular basis. A duration of six to eight years ought to be taken before an experienced technician is allowed to open it. Therefore you need the expertise of a professional who can disassemble all the inner parts and still get them back after doing a thorough cleaning on them. If you do not have skills on how to do it, then you should not dare to open.

A watch can stop to perform its function effectively once it has been in use for quite some time. Therefore it is recommended to do some oiling after a period of every two years. Make sure that each and every tool required for the application process is in the packaging you have bought. All the instructions on how it should be done must be clearly given out.

There are certain oil kits that are trusted and recommended by the repair technicians. Ensure that you make use of these ones only since the use of a different one can cause you more harm than you thought. If you cannot get them, go back to such technicians and seek for a second opinion.

You need to be very careful whenever you are doing the actual oil application. The intersections of the plate and the gears are very delicate parts to deal with, and thus they need to be handled with much carefulness. At the end of it all, you will realize that your clock gets restored back into the normal functioning.




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