Gently slid arm off the small mechanism with a flat spring.
Wall clock keeps stopping.
For wall clocks always remove your pendulum before taking the clock off the wall.
Pendulum arm about 20 long.
Grandfather clocks should sit level.
If your clock keeps stopping it could be the space it rests on.
If you ve recently moved your clock you should check the foundation for levelness.
A clock that leans to the left or right at the slightest angle will throw your pendulum into pandemonium or stop it in its daily tracks for tracking good time.
It s usually due to the cheap mechanism at the back which soon becomes loose so that the hands of the clock stick on either the glass or the faceplate.
It could take some time to get it right but if you stick with it you ll again have an in beat timepiece.
Put it back on the wall and the pendulum stops after a few minutes it just swings slower and slower until it stops.
The clock tilts forward at top due to hook on wall have packed a bit of folded tissue under bottom edge to sit it more perpendicular to the wall.
To correct a spring driven clocks mantle or wall clock that is bonging the hour when the minute hand gets to 6 o clock instead of 12 o clock just count the bongs take off the minute hand and reinstall it on the clock pointing to 12 o clock then turn the hour hand to the hour you heard the clock bong and its done.
If the pendulum stays in the clock it may scratch the inside of the case as well as change the beat and then the clock may not work.
What causes a pendulum clock to stop.
It s probably quite an easy job they.
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How to set the beat of the pendulum clock tip prevention.