Antique Seth Thomas Overhaul - Part 11 - Oiling and Final Reassembly

Okay, so now that I'm in this phase. I'm going to go ahead and lubricate this And I'm going to show you just how to do it correctly now. It's just a teeny weenie little bit here Doesn't need much Just like that Dab it around You don't want to give it too much There we go Okay, and I'm just going to repeat that For this one over here provided I can get my centered same thing Okay, just that little bitty bit and I think I'll just keep this same camera angle and just Move it around as I go That's the one with our bushing and the escape wheel This one okay a little bit more that into position here Little bit all that's needed Okay, and I'm going to put just a little dab on the mainspring arbor Just a little teeny bit I'm going to do the same to the other one Okay, I am not going to do the hammer part is that that's not that's not critical So now what we're going to do is we're going to flip it over Sorry, I'm shaking a little bit here hand out of the way here. There we go And then this next one here is the center The center shaft where the hands go on This is the back side of the fan right This what I like to do This is a little trick. I I learned from a fellow clock clock repairman is to put just a dab on the on the parts where the The escapement gear actually touch Come on focus Or not not as good. Well, whatever you saw me do the other one and just a little dab on the inside of that All right, and then we're going to put this back on Making sure to put it on correctly Okay, and I do not put oil on that some people do I do not I think that's a bad idea Okay, put that back over top Okay, that moves freely Okie-dokie Now we can reassemble the stops But I'm going to wind it first now this is always the moment of truth kind of a thing Because this is when you find out if stuff's not right You want to go, okay, that's cool. I want you to stay there So I'm just gonna wind this side, okay that sound was the spring clamp coming off Now what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna wind it up Till it gets to a point where I feel that it is Or at least almost tight Okay, right there is fully wound So now what I'm gonna do I'm gonna turn this to the stop point Okay The rest of this out I need Now that's gonna pose a problem Because if that's fully wound You wouldn't want to overwind it. So what I'm gonna have to do now is I need my letdown tool I'll let this down just a bit. You know, where's my Thing to hold Let this down to about there And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna pull this off and do a full 180 spin. Whoops. Not that this Okay And we're gonna wind it again and then It stops. Okay, that's what we want Almost tight but not quite that's good right there So now I can put this back on little bitty screws here Means I can use my favorite screwdriver in the world Threw that back in All right. Now we're gonna do the other side So the same thing here. We're gonna first of all, this is gonna there I'm gonna wind up the other side Which winds the opposite direction? Okay, it's wanting to go that's positive forward-thinking there and we're not even tight yet That's a really good sign We're gonna wind it up until it's pretty pretty much tight There that's fully wound So now we're gonna place this there And we need this other doodad here Now that's not far enough. So we're gonna do a full 180 unwind So we're gonna do this and then we're gonna make it go like that Okay Like that Then we're gonna put this on That so that way when we go to wind it It stops. That's what we want This Hey, that's the wrong way and then this other little bitty screw This is extremely encouraging and it goes like that It means number one that my bushing is working And it's not like skipping all over the place. It's doing it at a consistent rate So that means everything is lining up So just real quick here. Yeah, that would say Success Okay, so it seems we have a successful overhaul here movement looks great And Things are really ticking