Grandfather Clock Repair On A Colonial Grandfather Clock

We were called out to service a Colonial Grandfather Clock made around the 1950's. The main complaint was the weight fell off the chain and the chain run up inside the case and up into the movement. Unfortunately when this happens, the only way of removing the chain is to remove the movement from the case and then you will be able to remove the chain. While we had the movement out, we went ahead and service the Grandfather Clock.  

The way this movement came out is a little different than a modern day Grandfather clocks. Once we opened the door, we removed the 4 screws that held a decorative piece of trim that covered up the movement. There were 4 screws (2 in each corner) that held the decorative piece on. After removing the 4 screws we were able to remove the decorative piece.

After removing the decorative piece, we were able to remove  2 nuts that held the movement down onto the seat board. Removing them was simple, however reinstalling them turned out to be quite difficult. Lining up the old screw holes was what took so long. 

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​The red line indicates the bolt that held the movement down onto the seat board. There was a nut on the bottom that was removed in order to remove this tie down.  After we removed the tie down bolt from the seat board the movement came out of the case with ease. 

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​Once the movement was removed from the Grandfather case, we had to remove the face from the movement. The 2 red arrows indicate where the face clips are located. This face had 4 clips that needed to be removed. These clips just slide on and off to hold the face down to the clocks movement. By pulling on them we were able to remove them without any problem

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The Above Picture  shows a close up of the face clips for this clock. Notice the ring on the one side. This ring slides down on the face post. The face post has a grove in it so when you pull the face clip, it will slide up the grove and hold the face in place.

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Once the face was off we were able to remove the chain, clean and re-oil the grandfather clocks movement. Everything was reversed and the clock was put back together. Once we adjusted and calibrated the grandfather clock's movement we polished the case and cleaned the glass. The clock was back up and running.