Fusee dial
A large fusee dial clock recently came my way and I am trying to determine just what has happened to it and would appreciate any technical ideas that
anyone may have.
It looks to me to have started off life as a gallery clock with access to the back for winding via the large back door. AT a later date, the
winding was changed to front winding. To me, it looks as if, in order to facilitate this change of winding, a larger fusee wheel was used so that the
winding arbor cleared the front minute/hour wheel, hence the extra hole on the back and front plates.There has also been added an extra 2in of hinged
case to the bottom of the original case which I would presume the reason being, because of the larger fusee wheel the pendulum had to be much longer?
My dilemma is in restoring it: do I leave it as front winding and just make a new back box for it, which would certainly be the easiest, but
it would still have the protrusion of the extra 2in of case at the bottom, or do I change it back to rear winding (very impractical) and restore the
old case to original. Or is there another way I can reduce the length of the pendulum, keep the original back box and keep front winding.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Phil Smyrk, Australia
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