Foundational Clock Repair Skills II 

Description: The Foundational Clock Repair Skills (FCRS) II workshop reinforces the skills learned in Foundational Clock Repair Skills I: making a wheel hub, spin riveter, dome stake, pusher stake, and stump to prescribed dimensions. FCRS II will expand participants’ skills through continued lathe work; an introduction to heat treatment; mounting a wheel blank and arbor to a hub using the spin riveter and dome punch; using a jeweler’s saw; wheel and pinion engagements; using the depthing tool; and determining issues and concerns with a modern Indian-produced clock movement.

FCRS II will cover the following concepts:

• Fabricating the parts of a wheel assembly and mounting them on an arbor, including laying out a wheel, using a fret saw for wheel crossing, and continuing to use the lathe skills taught in FCRS I
• Removing the wheel from the arbor and remounting it
• Making the necessary tools to accomplish the above lathe work, including polishing, hardening, and tempering steel
• Learning the basic concepts of wheel and pinion engagement (depthing)
• Applying a systematic approach to identifying and diagnosing problems in a time-only movement  

Students will also receive a flowchart created for the workshop that highlights the general order of operations at the bench.

Tools & Equipment: Participants do not need to bring tools; however, they are invited to bring their own measurement tools (micrometers, calipers) and devices such as pivot polishers/burnishers, files, depthing tools, eye protection, and magnification devices. If the participant does not have any or all the items mentioned above, the School of Horology can supply them.

Dates: November 21, 22, and 23

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Location: NAWCC School of Horology, 454 Poplar Street, Columbia, PA 17512

Instructors: R.K. Elswick, Stuart Lord, Dave Burns, Ken De Lucca (kdelucca@nawcc.org), and Sam Gradel (sgradel@nawcc.org) 

Enrollment: Limited to 8 participants

Member Cost: $850.00

Nonmember Cost: $975.00