I would have posted this on his thread, but not really car related so... About 30 years ago I bought this really *****in Lucite acrylic grandfather clock that was made in the 60's. after having owned it for 10or so years I left town for a week and forgot to stop the pendulum and the weight went down to the bottom and I was unable to get it going again. I bought a new movement for it and installed it but I still couldn't make it work. So it sat motionless for about 20 years. One day about 2 months back I thought to myself that now that I am retired I should fix it. I removed the movement and cleaned and lubricated it, and found that I had the weights on the incorrect chains. Some weights are heavier than others because of what they do. I had it going and moved it upstairs to the living room. A couple of weeks into it I was in the shop and heard a horrendous crash (with chimes) in the house. The adhesive had failed on the base and it crashed. I was sick to my stomach when I saw it and my first instinct was to break it into small pieces and throw it out. But I thought better of it and figured that now that I have nothing but time and since the face of the clock was not broken that I should try to fix it. The face of the clock had all the mounting points for the movement so I had to save it. I didn't want to risk breaking it getting the busted pcs off so I put it in my milling machine and machined the broken pcs off. because it was so far away from the vise I used a pretty small end mill and it worked out ok. I tried to source some more white acrylic but nobody in town had any stock that was opaque. I opted for a color change to black . I made a few measurements and whipped up a jig to hold the parts after I glued them up. ( I used acrylic solvent cement). I left it clamped up for a couple of days (longer than really needed) here is a short video of it running https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...uild-thread-on-my-bubbletop-futurian.1137851/ MORIARITY, TODAY AT 12:26 PMEDITDELETEIP!REPORT! SHARE POST#1+ QUOTEREPLY
WOW! Great save, Mark. That has a definite 60's vibe to it. I would secure it to the wall now just in case you have an earthquake there in Minnesota...........Don.
I have one of each. Thanks for fixing it! Edit: Upon further review, I appear to have one good one and one broken one for each photo. It's completely workable, but thought you would like to know.
Only you can get away with glossing over the fact that your mill is pinstriped, candy painted, and metal-flake steering-wheeled!
haha, yeah. that is kinda my fault. when I bought the bridgeport it was painted a sickly tan color. I got out the paint remover and started stripping it. Little did I know that there was a thick clay like primer on it and once I stripped it what was left was a rough casting. So I did the only thing I knew how to do. I mudded and sanded and primed and blocked the whole thing. My buddy John had just finished building the clone of the A bros Adonis 60 ford and I talked him out of the leftover candy wild cherry... once it is candied ya have to get it striped... and I even had some stuff chromed for it too....
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