Very Laboured Westminster Chiming Clock

[fieryforest]

7-day movement experiencing slowdown of chime after 4_5 days. Any ideas welcome.

[factor-fiction]

Ed's probably gone home for the night. You may have more luck in How it Works or Home and Garden

[BlackadderV]

Ask Stuey, he's the expert on clocks.

[ABAuntie]

moved :-)

auntie xxx

[stuey]

I'm assuming that your clock has what is generally called an "eight day movement", and that that it has three winding arbors: one for the time train; one for the strike train; and one for the chime train. Obviously, since the chime train uses up a lot of power playing its "tunes" the spring runs down faster than the other two. First thing to try is to wind the clock up twice a week instead of once and see if this solves the problem...And wind all three springs up tightly. It's a myth that you can "over wind a clock"

[stuey]

Here's a picture of an unwound mainspring sitting next to an almost completely wound one. As you can see, the average human aint gonna break that baby by "over winding"!:) http://i57.tinypic.com/3501il5.jpg

[stuey]

Well, fieryforest, any news on how your clock is doing?