Disassembling And Repairing a Beautiful 1922 Gilbert Mantle Clock

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Amateur Repair Time. I picked this clock up today at the flea market. I went to a new one that I haven't been to before and this was sitting on a table. A nice couple was selling it and I typically don't even buy these these mantle clocks that are just the... some people call them Napoleon clocks because it kind of looks like the shape of his hat or people will call them... we'll just all kinds of stuff but they're mantle clocks basically. I typically don't even buy these anymore because I've got a bunch of them but this one was a little unique and I kind of liked it and the price was right so I got it. This is a Gilbert and I've got some other Gilberts but I don't have... this may be the nicest Gilbert that I have or at least that I can remember and it was ten dollars so I thought that seemed fair and opening the back door I saw that it needed a little repair which makes it great for my channel. Amateur Repair Time. What do you think about that? This is the time part of Amateur Repair Time. So I figured we'd check it out see what we can do with it. I was thinking maybe I try to clean up the case a little bit too. I might be able to use like some lacquer thinner. I've heard that can reactivate the lacquer so maybe I try to clean it with Murphy's soap to get some of the dirt off and then if you just barely put lacquer thinner on it it will reactivate the lacquer and make it look a lot better. I've seen people do that online so I may attempt that. The face here first of all the bezel is pretty corroded so who knows what condition the movement's going to be in. The glass has probably been replaced because everything's loose very loose in there but we should be able to tighten that up one way or another. Oh it looks like this just turns. It looks like if I just turn that it's going to work. Well that was easy. The dial is metal. I don't know why but when I first saw it I thought that it was paper but I didn't look too close. It was ten dollars. Did I mention that? So I asked them the price they told me ten dollars. I looked it over for just a few seconds and then I bought it. So the dial you know although it does have some areas that look worn as you can see there's not going to be any repairing that. So it's not a thing where you can just clean it it's where the the finish has worn away. So it's going to stay like this. That almost looks like a sticker doesn't it? Oh you know what though? Wow that's uh that's embossed. Is that the best way to put it? That is cut into the dial. Very cool. So I didn't know what type it was from the front because it's not marked but the movement is marked and I like I said I enjoy these Gilbert's. I've got a few of them. It's an interesting company. It's just one you don't see quite as much as the other ones. Probably worth less than the other ones but I like it. Okay so let me show you the back. So here's what I'm talking about with the finish. This alligatoring or whatever you want to call it. I've heard you can clean that up with lacquer thinner. Not go crazy just put a little bit on it and wipe it on and it reactivates it all and lays it down and makes it look nice. May try that. Another thing I noticed was that the case is constructed kind of weirdly. So I don't know if you can pick this up but you see the line there. So this is it's I wouldn't call that a veneer. I mean like it's this whole piece. It's just the way the thing is constructed. It's also on the top. There is a line right there like the entire front appears to be a different piece of wood and it goes all the way. See the line? So the whole clock was built out of two pieces. Well out of you know separate pieces of wood and when I got it they had this was I think mounted wrong. Both of these pins were turned down to where you kind of hung the door on there and then it would fall off. So I think the way it was made was one goes up and one goes down. This one too the nut is missing on the back. It still has the little latch. Well I see the bottom one's moving weird. Okay I'm just going to remove that. The bottom one doesn't have a nut on it. I'm just going to remove that until we can figure out exactly how this is supposed to go in there because I don't want to harm this back door. I thought it went like that but maybe that maybe it does just hang on the top. The finish I would call mahogany. It's red and it says notice this clock will give better service if cleaned and oiled once a year. Guaranteed against defects for one year. William L. Gilbert Clock Company Winstead, Connecticut, USA. And there is a nail actually holding that on and it's paper though so it's kind of weird. But we need to make sure we save that. And then up here it has a name which to me reads Ed South. So I don't know if Ed South was the guy that owned it or if Ed South was the guy that repaired it or what the deal was but that's pretty cool. It's a bim bam movement which I have just recently become accustomed to because you know I got that that Jung Hans grandfather clock that we worked on that was a bim bam movement. So I wasn't I wasn't aware of that but a bim bam movement is a movement that makes two different tones. Now these aren't adjusted very well so it's going to sound like crap but we should be able to trigger it. Oh it's because there's a bag in there. We'll let it finish and I was thinking man it didn't sound that bad earlier. Okay let's try this one more time. Again though it's not adjusted very well. I'm just reaching through and lifting the count lever. This is strange to me. This seems like I just don't see I mean obviously this is the crutch but I don't see what the purpose of that is. Does that also wrap around the pendulum leader? What would be the purpose of that? I don't completely understand why that is. There is a little lever here. I wonder if that lever is to hold that out of the way to limit the uh the strike so that it only does a bim and not a bim bam. What do you think? Perhaps that's what that is. Okay yeah so I've never seen this movement and it looks pretty dirty. Made by Gilbert Winstead, Connecticut and I thought I saw a number on here. Yeah I just covered it up with that lever but I think it says 22. 22 which I would think means 1922. What do you think? Is that what that's for? To make the bim bam a bim? Let's try it again. I think that's it because this this leader is much farther out. You can't really tell from this angle but the leader is much farther out where it's not going to go through that and this crutch. The the entirety of this crutch is in front of this so I think the whole purpose of that is to be touched is to be held out of place by that lever so that you can change the tone. We may be able to tell that from the uh the catalog if we can find a catalog that shows this and um this looks like some sort of adjustment for fast and slow perhaps. Oh lordy oh lordy that one's seen some wear. That seems all right. How did they do a pivot that's off center? Did they use a blank pivot and then uh drill it? I've seen those where you can actually get pivots then uh or is that the original pivot and they put some kind of putty or something in there? I don't know there's an eight there. I wonder if that's the drop. The pivots don't look that bad to me. The bushings. That one obviously. Where is it? That one there is obviously pretty bad. Okay so um it didn't have the pendulum and it's obviously missing the pendulum suspension spring or the pendulum leader. It did have this key. What is the wire on there? Why is there a wire on the key? So maybe something else is broke? Hmm. What's that all about? I suppose we'll find out. Okay so I'm gonna go ahead and remove the movement from the uh from the clock and I'm also going to see if I can look it up uh in a catalog or something. Maybe look at 1922. It's got this kind of cutesy little hair flourish here and the whole thing is kind of almost triangle shaped and it has those embossed Arabic numbers on the front and it's a bim bam movement. So let's see if we can find it in a catalog. I don't know that there's a ton of Gilbert catalogs though online. All right so here is a similar clock that's on eBay or on an auction gallery and this one is you know a slightly different case but it looks like around the same time and if you look close enough if you look at like the 10 here for instance it appears to be the same embossed look. The Gilbert was originally under the dial and then down at the bottom it says made in Winston, Connecticut or was it Winston? Winstead, Connecticut. So we may be able to see remnants of that on ours but more importantly it shows me this which is very useful. So this is obviously the same movement and it's showing me pendulum placement. So basically the suspension spring is coming down and it is curving up. The base of it is right about at the base of the the movement almost exactly at the base of the plates and then the pendulum itself is just one of the little cast iron ones. Who knows what weight that is but I've got some that are very similar to that so that won't be a problem. So that's very helpful. So a good place to find the catalogs is clockhistory.com. The gentleman there has loaded tons of clock catalogs but like I mentioned there's not very much for Gilbert. This is from I believe 1917 I believe and it's a similar one. It's not exactly the same. It's similar and it says with two-tone Normandy chimes. So they called those chimes Normandy chimes not bim bam chimes. A peaceful and charming design. Height nine and a half inches with 21 inches. The price was $32.50 in 1917 or whatever this was. A gift for all time. A genuine Gilbert Normandy chime clock for a wedding present will serve as a daily and permanent reminder of your of you after other gifts are forgotten. Gilbert clocks are inexpensive too with many beautiful cases to select from at $20 to $35 in solid mahogany American walnut or mahogany finish. I think this one's solid mahogany. Listen to these Normandy chimes at your jewelers or write us for full information and prices. Makers of good clocks since 1807. So it has the same looking dial but it doesn't appear to say Gilbert and I think these are actually photographs. They look like they are like a drawing. I think they're actually a photograph. You run into the same thing with the pinball machines. A lot of pinball machines they did black and white publicity photos for or you know flyer photos for and they look like this. They almost look like they're drawn but they're not. It's it's a photo. So I don't know this may be a drawing or maybe a photo but either way there is no Gilbert on the dial so it could be that that's one way that you can date them is whether or not they have Gilbert on the dial. Okay so it removed very easily with four screws and it has a spring that is sprung so I probably should have wound that up before I did that but um this is the front of it. Oh it's going to give us a little taste of its uh bim bam movement. Well it's dropping clean. Okay so here on the front it's held together by this nut. I guess there are some more on the back. Yeah on the post on the back. Let's see if we can tell by looking at the pivots. So time uh strike side. It's just in play. That's not where it's under a lot of pressure. That spring is tight. Oh here we go. Here's our problem. That piece that I found on the key it's going to be the uh the uh the click. The click's broke. Yep. All right well that'll be a nice little repair. Well now we know that's what did it in. Pretty rough. This one's gonna need a little work folks. And I cannot tell what is going on here. I can't I can't tell what the deal is. I don't have enough light on it I guess. Come on. I just can't tell what that dirt and everything is on. We're about to clean it first. Um some pretty gnarly fingerprints or palm prints or something there. So has this been bushed? I mean I can't really tell what what we're looking at here. I guess because it's just so dirty. All right so this is first wheel here and that spring is sprung. Second wheel. If it will focus. It seems fine. Third wheel. It seems fine on the front. Fourth wheel. It seems fine. And escape wheel. I think it's fine but the back didn't look fine. Um and then the I don't know this is the why is this not focusing? What in the world? Okay um this is the hour wheel and this is the minute wheel. I don't know what that transfer one there is called but it looks sloppy as hell. So definitely that one. Possibly some of the other ones and I can't really tell over here because there we go again. I can't really tell over here because um we've got too much. That sure doesn't look good but that sure looks all centered on it. It's one of those things we're probably going to have to yeah it's one of those things where we're probably going to have to um just check again after we disassemble it of course. Um yeah okay pretty interesting. How are they adjusting the fast and slow? It did say fast and slow on the top of the dot. Why is my focus not working? Yeah so it's got a fast and slow adjustment here. So I guess the key can turn that and through the movement it goes all the way through to there. And that. Oh okay that's a weird setup. That is walking up that graduated piece there which is going to lower or raise this depending on which way you turn it. Okay so look at the top or tooth two. I don't ******* turn it for more. I don't have the this is the wrong key it's not actually going to do anything. The key is maybe proper for the springs but it's not for this adjustment. Yeah okay so you just saw it move. There you go. So that's actually working. It should work better when it's clean. Okay so I'm disassembling it. I got the clamps on it um which I was able to do fairly easy with the one that's sprung because you could just push the click into place. The spring wouldn't hold it because it's not there but you can push the click into place. Grind it some more. Push the click into place. Wind it some more. Put some the click into place. Slide the clamp on it and then let it back out. So that worked just fine. It's like a nose down variety. You have to take the back plate off and it's you know it's all just pretty standard. I did notice a couple things. If I don't screw all that up. I did notice a couple things. Um the little lever I was messing with on the back is not to disable the um the bam. It's to strike on the half hour because it's attached to the minute wheel. So as this turns it's going to get to a place. This is going to be the one that strikes the trips the hour but it's going to get to a place where it trips the hammer to strike the half hour. Pretty clever design. It's pressed on there though. I hope I don't break that trying to get it off and it is aimed kind of like if we're saying that we've got that aimed at six right now then the other one is aimed at one right now. So I don't know if that's right. I may have moved that with when I turned it with my hand. I don't know if I was turning the whole minute wheel or if I just moved that around. If I moved it around I guess it's in the wrong spot already but I'm going to try to get that off so I can take this loose um so we can make sure all of this gets very clean. Okay so I was able to get it all disassembled and the uh the reason I couldn't tell what was going on with the um the escape wheel is escape pivots is because it was just filthy. It's covered in grease so that may um that may be a problem. So we've got that one bushing that we were looking at wherever it is um and then possibly the escape bushing as well. Okay so I'm going to put all this stuff in the ultrasonic cleaner clean it up uh get it as nice and clean and shiny as possible using heat and then we will go from there and you can see um the broken click. I tried seeing if I could push that those sort of wires broken inside of I tried seeing if I could push that wire out. I don't know how that's actually attached in there. Kind of looks like they put the wire in and then they beat it you know there to pinch it in place. I don't know if that's what they did or not but we will figure out something. I've got new clicks but the problem with that is they're riveted on basically you know so I don't know how easy it's going to be to take that all apart. I can't tell what's going on maybe it'll just pop off but I don't think so but and this won't hardly turn because it's all gunked up and seized up. So we'll see what the magical ultrasonic cleaner can do to it. Okay so we got everything back out of the ultrasonic that is just it does an amazing job. This key is similar to how the rest of it looked you know you just saw how the rest of it looked. So it cleaned up the plates pretty well they're all stained though which I could tell it was going to be like that because they they were already like that. So someone has put some kind of pretty harsh chemical on this at some point in the past. I've seen them do this before but I'll clean it up a little better around the pivots certainly and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to put each wheel where it goes and then just check that pivot and you know see what the deal is. So this is the escape pivot here definitely elongated see it it's not round anymore so that that one's definitely going to be bad and while I was disassembling it I found there's several issues while I was disassembling and I found an issue that I bodged and fixed. So some of y'all are going to hate this hide your eyes if you're squeamish okay so there is this little bracket here that its purpose is to hold a piece of felt basically which is where did I put that this it holds this and this is just so whenever the chimes hit this little thing one of these hits it I think this hits it but it might be up here hits it anyway it just as it falls it hits that right or maybe it's that way I can't remember we'll figure it all out. Well anyway when I took it apart this piece was about to break right on the edge so I just took a little wire and made like a little brace for it so that it won't break and then I would solder together and it's nice and strong and it's not pretty but you know what's less pretty is that thing broke in half so we're going to leave it like that so I had to fix that and fix that and by the way folks just so we're clear I don't know if I mentioned it this thing has very little value other than it deserves to be fixed and repaired and that's what I want to do right I'm sitting at flea market for 10 bucks with parts missing you know I get to be the guy so it's not like this thing is a 500 clock and we're half-assing it no it's its value is ten dollars right we're just we're trying to fix it and we will fix it by the way what else do we have this is the speed thing it's actually in very good shape and it has a little piece of the suspension spring on it which is good because I can kind of compare that to the new one that I put in there just to make sure that I'm not doing putting one in there that's like just completely different than the original one you can kind of get away with murder on that if I if you put anything in there that bends back and forth it'll kind of work I've heard and seen stories of people using paper clips of people using a piece of paper using foil from a gum a bubble gum a piece of bubble gum you know I've got something very nice for it that's going to be very similar to that but if you're just a little bit different than the original one usually it's not that big of a deal so all of the wheels seem fine to me they all cleaned up pretty good too and I haven't polished them or you know polished the pivots I haven't done any of that yet the spotting that's on it again was already on there I'm not too concerned about that I don't really care if they look brand new I like them to look clean but I don't I don't care if they're free of spots if you took and that's not from water that's from they were already like that so I don't know if somebody sprayed something on them or or what it could be as simple as somebody you saw all the grease that was on the the pivots it could be as simple as somebody sprayed some sort of oil on it and it it has reacted over the years but I don't see anything wrong with any of these wheels everything seems fine what else did we have a click spring we'll get to oh I wanted to show you this I need to watch the video back whenever this was striking but now that this is clean let's see the hole here that should have a piece of leather in it so there should be a piece of leather that sticks out a little bit to make it a little leather faced hammer so we're going to have to do something to replace that and it's on both of them both of these are identical by the way the two hammers uh this is the piece for the fast and slow um I thought there was like one more thing that I needed oh the click spring yeah so I've got to I fixed that thing um we're gonna have to do bushings we have to do leather we'll probably need to replace this with something it's pretty rough but I think that can be like anything um and the click spring we're gonna have to do it so you know it's just a wire that tucks in here and goes around and tucks in there so that it can hold it down in place and again this is not moving very well so I'm gonna have to figure that out as well um so yeah so that's our that's our main issues that we need to mess with maybe we attempt some bushings first what do you think I could start putting it back together piece by piece and checking the pivots as I go and find the ones that need repaired all right well I'm happy to report that I finally got a clock stand in if you haven't been following the ordeal of the clock stand I ordered one like three months ago from one place and then I ordered one from another place and then and it just took forever I just couldn't get one but I finally got one I might have a couple now I can't remember um so it does make it easier especially on this one with the snout down that's what JR Clocker calls it one of my favorite clock repair guys um look at this too there's some rust that's probably from me putting it in the ultrasonic cleaner I didn't notice that before so I need to clean this again um he always talks about that too he mentions that he cleans them three or four times but what I've done is I just fit everything back in there where it goes because I want to check each pivot and then mark the ones that need a little work so you can see up here where the escape wheel is you know we've already determined that that thing's pretty rough so the front's going to need a pivot you can basically there's a percentage I don't know what it is but it's it's something like you're not supposed to be able to tilt it more than like 15 percent or something like that so like that one see I can move it a little bit that's fine but this one sounds way off it shouldn't be able to move like that in the bushing and you can tell by looking at the bushing I mean you can see it moving around and so if it moves a little bit you're all right like this one's pretty good and so the only reason I put them back in was so that we could see that one's a little loose we could see it in its actual pivot you know so I'm going to leave the levers out and I'm going to slide the back plate back on line it up and then we're just going to check each one and go through and test it with my finger and then I'll mark the couple that need it now you could have done that when it was still together the first time but the problem that you run into is like we had on this um escape wheel where there's so much grease on the pivot that you can't see anything so you kind of need to clean it first and by the way and I also went through and polished all the pivots like I was talking about the way I do that is I just use a little piece of 2000 grit sandpaper so I hold the end of the pivot between the sandpaper spin it you can see where all the marks each one of those is one of these pivots um that seems to work pretty decent okay yeah so I'm going to slide the back plate on and then we can see which ones are really screwed up now that they're clean all right so I got it back together it actually fell together pretty good this is a decent little movement it seemed like it was a little easier than some of the ones that I've done okay but I don't have the levers in there so that might be the whole difference okay so I'm just you know there's no uh tension on the springs so I'm just fiddling with it to see if I like the uh the way that they sit in the bushings and yeah that one seems fine to me and it's already been rebushed um so we get this one so I guess it's first wheel second wheel third wheel and this is the time side you know the time side is much more important to have the wear um taken care of than the other side you can see too that this is although it is cleaner it's not completely clean I mean some of that would probably still come off you could always polish this too but all of this discoloring and stuff is because they put some kind of chemical on it or use something harsh on it at some point which I guess that's what that could be too we've at least got it cleaned up enough that we don't have grease all over it anymore so this is the third wheel and that's fine like I mean there's a little play in it but that's how you want it and it's got good up and down play in play I think they call it so that's fine that's fine so this one I mean I understand that you can't help but see that but I'm looking at number four right now so good up and down play and I'm spinning it everything's cool okay and so then we get up here to the escapement wheel and it's just bad oh it's bad I'm gonna make a little mark now they usually they kind of mark them in the direction that it's worn I'm not too worried about that because I just try you know to me it seems pretty obvious where it's worn I mean it was originally centered now it's not so I just try to center it again you know um but that one definitely needs done so that's one now let's check this middle one so we've got the center wheel which is the you know the minute wheel it's got a little play but when you get to that part of the movement it doesn't really matter because it's at the end you're not gonna if you think about it the way all these gears work it's basically you want you want the escapement wheel to be moving properly and for things not to bind if you're there's one going off in the other room at the moment if you're uh if you're down to the minute wheel it doesn't you know you don't want a ton of play but if there's a little play it's not that big of a because it's it's the output basically right all right and so this is the I guess it's the hour wheel that ain't great but I think it's already had a bushing too well this wheel the only purpose of it is it takes the minute wheel and converts it to the hour wheel or I may have that backwards but as this turns it turns this which in turn turns the hour wheel right so again not one of the ones that's super um that you need a ton of precision from so I think I'm gonna leave that all right so we're over on the strike side so this whole side in my opinion is nowhere near as important to have super accurate because think about it once it gets released it's going to do its thing and strike and if it's not super accurate does it really matter I mean as long as it strikes does it really matter so this is the first wheel or great wheel I guess they call it and the second wheel a little play with my previous caveat third wheel and you know I don't know what I'm doing you know so if if if you disagree and think I'm full of it that's fine because I'm not an expert okay so that's the third wheel this has a piece that mounts on it which is what actually makes the strike happen fourth wheel pretty good and then the governor it's fine all right so let's look at the other side all right so here's the other side first wheel second wheel is good third wheel good I'm gonna get a good perfect shot of that because it's so up close fourth wheel is good and escapement wheel is again just screwed so we definitely have a problem with that so it's both of those basically and then you could argue that these are pretty loose but again it's such a direct gearing to this that I don't think it matters I mean yeah if it's real sloppy it'll matter but because ultimately the slop is going to create drag so you're not going to get as much of a swing and things like that if it's too loose but I think it's good if not I guess I'll just take it back apart and do another one I'm not to the point yet where I'm competent enough to just replace every bushing and oh yeah it'll be much better after do this no there's always the chance I'm gonna screw it up because I'm an amateur you know so I don't want to replace stuff that doesn't necessarily mean it I mean need it but these up here definitely have enough wear that it's causing issues okay and then over on the strike side first wheel second wheel I think we've noticed on the back that the second wheel this one was a little loose too so it's a got a little bit going on and you know it's been rebushed it looks like so or maybe so maybe they just used a something that had a little bit of play in it and it's been like that ever since it was rebushed um third wheel is really good fourth wheel is really good and the governor is really good so again we don't have the levers in them so um I believe you can just put a little pressure on the I don't know what this stand though all right so starting at the great wheel if you give it some juice everything is meshed up nicely up to the escapement wheel there's our minute wheel okay on the strike side it's a little harder to do that I guess it's just kind of the way and I may be going backwards I don't know I guess you might check both ways there's my ugly repair I didn't go backwards on this side well so that's the way we were going I can't easily do this without cutting my hand but but anyway you get the whole point okay so I I'm just going to replace the two on the escapement wheel I think that's the two that definitely need it and I think that will be the best considering my current skill set and if I feel froggy after I put it back together if something ain't quite right we might go after this one but the rest of them are pretty good all right so here is my reamer now if you weren't following the saga of that I had the wrong handle because they sent me the wrong handle so I finally got the correct handle and then after I got the correct handle this piece would not fit in it so I don't know what the hell I'm doing wrong maybe it's supposed to go in there sideways or something I don't know I thought that it would go down and twist into place and then as you turned it you know you would be basically pushing it towards that and so it would hold in place but it won't go in and when I put it in whenever I first got it it instantly broke off one of the little ears here so it's all the wrong size so I don't understand whatever but it works it's held in place it won't move because I've basically forced it down in there but yeah okay so if you haven't watched this before so basically this reamer here is 2.7 millimeters right and the thickness of the plate on almost all of these American movements is 1.4 millimeters and so these bushings have different size bores so I've just checked with my the exact pivot that's going in that spot and a 1.3 is too tight and a 1.4 fits pretty good so I'm going to use one of these in there so I reamed it all out and it was this one and I hit it with a file a little bit to get rid of the burrs and stuff that were on it so I think I've got it pretty centered that's actually better than I usually get it so the way I do that I don't have a machine to find the center of the original hole so basically you know once it's worn it's elongated in one direction so if you put this reamer in and start turning it you're going to cut it but it might not be centered you got to be careful with that right and you got to I've shown it on previous videos but so what I do is and I've seen other people mention this is you kind of eyeball it you know we need if if the if the wear has traveled that way well you don't want to center it that way so what I do is I place it in the original hole in the center and I purposely turn it so that I'm cutting meat off of the opposite side of the way that it wore you're right so if it's worn this way I put the the the reamer in and then turn it in a semi-circle arc to cut off the opposite side and then I'll look at it and if it looks like it's still off I do it again and I just keep doing that until it looks like the hole that's there is centered and it's usually kind of easy to tell because they're they usually have this well around them you know so there's like an oil well built this that's actually a bushing but there's like an oil well built into it so you can um you can just tell by looking at it if the hole centered or if you're off center and then up until you get all the way through which is this um you can still move it you know so if you're if it's all the way over here and I thought it's all the way at the edge you can very carefully cut it keep cutting off that side until it centers itself now if you have a machine it's much easier to do or a drill because you can just press it you can set it up exactly where you want it clamp it in place and then just press it and it will cut right through exactly where you want it and center it every time but if you're doing it by hand it's a little harder but I like it all right so um I've got that so I'm going to take that bushing pound it in there with a hammer get it nice and flush and um I think it's better if it's um this is the inside you want it flush on the inside so if you get if it's too thick you want the extra to stick out the outside not the inside now on some of these it kind of complicates it if it's got a an accoutrement that goes on the outside like this little thing that I was talking about that makes it strike so you know ultimately you would rather that it be flush on both sides all right I've got a chamfering bit too to put like a little bevel in it but the bushing it looks like has a bevel in it on one side it's in there good now much better fit and a little bit of play like you want you don't want it to be too tight so that's one let's try the other all right that went in very well I was just thinking I wonder if the pivot though the the well was supposed to be on the outside actually to help it hold oil I don't know can we tell by the elements hmm yeah I might have just put them in backwards well we'll try it how it is and see because if you think about it the inside uh there are just holes let me find a good example I don't know if that's a good example that might have been replaced on the inside there are just holes and on the outside there are yeah here's a good example that went up there that's where the governor goes so on the inside it's flat but I'll show this first so much better fit and it's still loose enough of course that it turns you can also ream the hole out a little bit too if you need to polish the bushing um I got a whole box of files and stuff um so on the inside it's flat and on the outside it has a little bit of a bevel I guess it's kind of like a ring around it so yeah I might have put those both in backwards well I don't know hell it looks just like that doesn't it so I've got it flat on the outside and it's a little bit beveled on the inside I think I'm gonna leave it like that um so I got the two so uh got to reassemble it I have to do the levers I have to fix that click spring we've got the oil everything we have to mount it 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