Analog clock...setting time

Posted by HeyBub on November 1, 2009, 4:49 pm

tnom@mucks.net wrote:

> As a force of habit I have been resetting the clocks around the house
> by only moving the hands clockwise. Somewhere along the line I was
> told a clock could be damaged if you moved the hands backwards.
> I have no idea of the source or validity of the information. Have I
> been misled all these years?

If you adjust the time with a knob and the know will LET you turn the time
backwards, you should be okay.

Posted by Walter R. on November 1, 2009, 7:32 pm

My grandfather clock came with instructions to adjust the time by turning
the hands backwards only. Turning them backwards makes it unnecessary to
stop every quarter hour for the chime. Otherwise the chime and the hands get
out of sync.

--
Walter
www.rationality.net
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Posted by Oren on November 1, 2009, 8:52 pm

>My grandfather clock came with instructions to adjust the time by turning
>the hands backwards only. Turning them backwards makes it unnecessary to
>stop every quarter hour for the chime. Otherwise the chime and the hands get
>out of sync.

I turn my cuckoo clock backwards.

Posted by Ed Pawlowski on November 1, 2009, 10:07 pm

> My grandfather clock came with instructions to adjust the time by turning
> the hands backwards only. Turning them backwards makes it unnecessary to
> stop every quarter hour for the chime. Otherwise the chime and the hands
> get out of sync.

My schoolhouse clock will adjust the chime automatically if I turn it
forward any amount of time. . I've never turned it backward, I just stop
it for an hour and re-start it.

Posted by Tony on November 2, 2009, 11:55 am

Walter R. wrote:

> My grandfather clock came with instructions to adjust the time by turning
> the hands backwards only. Turning them backwards makes it unnecessary to
> stop every quarter hour for the chime. Otherwise the chime and the hands get
> out of sync.

Huh? I never would have guessed. Suppose I got caught up in the "never
turn a clock backwards thing. My octagon clock doesn't like being
turned backwards. It actually jambs and messes up the sync between the
long and short hands. It's a New Haven clock from ~ 1870's but
unfortunately the entire clock mechanism had been replaced while or
before my grandparents owned it.

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