It being another Mediterranean day here, activities have been a bit limited. I have finally got round to a job that has been annoying me for a few years.
This clock has an allegedly eight-day mechanism, but it only runs for a few hours either side of seven days. This leads to it stopping occasionally, if you rely on weekly winding. I have been partially winding it about half-way through each week. This happens for a few reasons - the mechanism is really intended for a grandfather sized case (I have one on the Big Island and that will run well into the ninth day), but this is a granddaughter case, so the available drop of the weights is much les. Another problem is that the full height is not available even then, the weights struck the case before reaching their potential highest point. Investigation revealed that a previous owner had moved the mechanism a few millimetres forward - putting it back made things a bit better and the full drop should run for about seven and a half days now. A small modification to the case may happen to make the whole thing a little better at some point - but, although it will be a small modification, it won't be a small job...
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It's a nice clock that came via Katharine House - the yew finish is particularly attractive. The case was broken in half when I got it, although the fix is so invisible that I can't even see it myself now - and it made it a lot easier to transport here.
If it ever gets a defined final location, I might even construct a sub-floor box to get the full drop that the chains make available, but probably not.
In other activity, I have finally found a grave that I've been looking for for a while. I have had a few searches of likely locations, but without finding anything. The local underworld could not supply any information, which is odd - but, I can now see why. Anyway, they turned out to not be far away, in the end, but not in a place that I would have considered. A look around the internet last night produced a picture of another family gravestone, sixty miles away, which made reference to their location and a spin out there this morning produced a 'hit'.