The American watchmaker and jeweler by Stelle J. Parish (James Parish)

Author:Stelle, J. Parish (James Parish)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Clock and watch making. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, J. Haney & co
Published: 1868-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

do not give satisfaction j or^ in other words, who do not seem to possess all the necessary requisites. As an illustration—a man will come to your house, perhaps, take down your clock, clean it properly, repair it all right, put it up as it should be, and then—spoil the job by oiling all the pivots and probably the pinions. The requisite lacking in this case is good common sense. If he had possessed this he would have seen t'hat to oil the pivots or pinions would be to cause their accumulation of dust; that this dust mixing with the oil, must increase the friction by causing the parts to grind together, to say nothing of a gum sure to result ■—either oi which, without the other, could not do otherwise than stop the machine sooner or later,

We often hear persons complaining of their clocks stopping in cold weather—in nine cases out of ten the cause may be attributed to this very injudicious use of oil. A gum has formed on the pivots or pinions, or both, which stiffens under the influence of the cold, and, of course, stops the movement. But this is not the only bad result. A clock grinding along in consequence of having been improperly oiled, will wear out in less than half the time that it would under other circumstances. The reason in this must be apparent to all—each pivot or each pinion leaf has been converted, as it were, into a grindstone.

I am sorry to say that a large per cent, of the professed clock-tinkerers straggling over our country do work on the plan just named. They are generally men who are too lazy to earn an honest living by hard labor, and too dull to do it in any other way. If a man is disposed to work at clocks, and possesses the requirements that will enable him to do it well, a necessity for much '^ tramping" will never spring-up. A community can easily be found that will give him a permanent business. And unless the person applying for a ''job" is known, or can furnish satisfactory evidence that he understands his business, and is honest enough to do well what he understands, my advice is to keep him and the clock as far apart as possible. Better ten to one that the owner go to work and put it in repair himself ; for certain it is that he will not willfully injure his own property.

Under the impression then that this book may possibly fall into the hands of some who, in consequence of not

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