Antique Bonner & Sons Colchester English mantle clock

Welcome back to the antique clock shop. I'm going to give you an update on this Bonner & Son English clock I've been working on. I got the movement out of the clock and I always like to get them running for a few days before I tear them apart. I'm going to show you a short video of how the Some people refer to this as the verge. I call it the crutch. I'll explain that in a minute But I'll show you a video of how it was when it came out of the clock. I'll be right back Okay If you looked at that video You can see why it wasn't running right. I got it nice and plumb now Everything seems to be running pretty smoothly. I got it on my level board here Got it working pretty good On the American clocks. This is an old Ingram parts movement And the pallets here and the only way that pallets connected To the suspension spring is with this crutch and I still refer to these as a crutch It's just terminology that I'm used to. I just wanted to explain that to you, but the next move on this Clock here is I'm going to let it run for a couple days and then I'll go ahead and disassemble it clean it and see What it needs. I do think I'm gonna have to put a new suspension spring in here because the top of that's cracked and There's probably my best move is to make a new one of those so that's gonna be a challenge trying to get that spring material I mean I can get I Can buy these here already made, but I just need the spring material so I gotta see if I can find that spring material on eBay or something and Make a new one because I need the bottom leader part To you know I can't find a replacement one That's the thing about the American clocks is I go on eBay and I can find any part I want but when they're like an English clock or a German clock It's a little harder for me to find the parts, so I gotta make them all right. That's it for this video. Thanks for watching