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We service over 700 Grandfather clocks per year in the Atlanta Metro area. Our company gets many calls and emails from people all over the country, that asks us for help on some of the repairs to their Grandfather clocks. We will put together several short instructional blogs to help everyone that can't find a clock repair person in their area, or would just like to do their own repairs. When someone purchases a new movement from us, there are a few things that will need to be performed, prior to re-installing the new movement. One of the tasks to be performed will be to re-install the old Grandfather clocks face to the new Grandfather clock movement. I have posted a few pictures to help you understand how this is done. The first picture is of the face, upside down. You will notice the 4 posts on the backside of the face. These post will line up with 4 matching holes in the movement pictured second. There are several ways to get the face to fit on the movement, However I will discuss the way I was tough and the way that is easiest for me. Feel free to try other methods that might work best for you. First and most important. Before you touch the face of your movement, you will need to put on a pair of either latex or cotton gloves. You do not want to touch the face with your bare hands. If you already have, wipe the Grandfather clocks face with some Windex or some type of glass cleaner. Please use it sparingly and do not wipe hard, you could remove the lettering on the face. Once its clean and you have your gloves on, place the movement face up toward you. Look around the face post holes. On the inside of the front side of the movement, you will see silver locking levers at each hole. The picture below will show you what you are looking for. There are 4 of these locking tabs, 1 for each hole. Before you try to line the face up to the movement, study these locking tabs, notice that when you move them one way, they will cover up the face post holes on the movement. Move them so that the holes are not being blocked. Once the locking tabs are clear from the face post holes, you are ready to install the face onto the movement. Place the face upside down in one hand. Bring the movement over to the face , lining up the hand shaft with the center hole on the face, lower the movement down to meet the face. The face post will move a little and sometimes will not line up perfectly with the face post holes in the movement, You will have to move the face posts to meet the face post holes. One challenge to installing the face is the moon gear will sometimes not line up with the face gear, so you will have to move the moon gear around as well to help the face posts to drop down into the face post holes. Once the face posts are seated into the face post holes, you will need to move the locking tabs over so the locking tabs will lock into place and hold the face onto the movement. Once the locking tabs are in place, your Grandfather clocks face is installed onto your Grandfather clock movement. You will be able to install the Grandfather clocks hands onto the movement now and re-install the movement into your Grandfather Clocks case. We will post additional information as questions come in to our shop that we think will help with repairing your Grandfather clock yourself. Please feel free to ask us questions and we will try to post instructions to help.
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Clock Repair Service In Atlanta Clock Repair Service has a mobile shop and we come out to your home to repair and service your Grandfather Clock. We were in Atlanta the other day servicing one of our customers Howard Miller Grandfather Clock. The clock was showing signs of slowing down on the chiming side. Once we removed the movement, we were able to see a lot of dried out dirty oil. We have developed a great technique that allows us to clean and service our customers Grandfather clocks without bringing the entire clock back to our shop. Our Tech was able to remove all the old dirty oil and re-oil with a high quality synthetic clock oil. After the movement was re-installed, it was calibrated and adjusted. The whole Grandfather Clock service takes about an hour and was performed in 1 trip, saving our customers both time and money. Clock Repair Service, Services and Repairs all clocks brands and styles. We do accept smaller clocks to be brought into our shop, however its best for your Grandfather Clock to be serviced in your home. Our service area is quite large, we service Chattanooga to Atlanta, including all areas in between. To schedule an appointment or if you have any questions, please call us @ 678-462-7856 Grandfather Clock Repair in your home. Clock Repair Service, is the only clock repair shop in the Metro Atlanta and surrounding areas that will come to your home, set up a shop in your home to work on your Grandfather clock. There is no need for you to bring your Grandfather clock into our shop, we always come to you. Most Grandfather clock repairs can be performed in your home or office and usually will not need to be brought to our shop. If by chance one of our technicians, needs to bring your movement and parts back to our shop, they will discuss the exact cost of the repairs that will need to be performed.
If you are needing your Grandfather Clock repaired, you have come to the correct place. Clock Repair is all we do and we repair more Grandfather Clocks than any other clock company in Georgia and parts of Tennessee. Each technician at Clock Repair Service repairs and services over 600 Grandfather clocks per year. We have serviced thousands of Grandfather Clocks in the past 10+ years we have been in business. Give us a try, you will be happy you did. 678-462-7856 Clock Repair Service has several Seiko musical clocks on sale for the Christmas Holidays. At present, we only have 9 left and we will not be getting any more in this year. Now is the time to come bu and get yours.
Howard Miller Grandfather clocks are at their lowest price of the year now, during our "Once A Year Sale"
A total Rebuild on this Sweetish Grandfather clock. We returned this beauty to its new home today. It sounds wonderful. We had to re-bush every bushing, replaced 1 pivot and had a tough time with the verge, however, we got it all back together and tested out perfect.
Howard Miller has a "Once A Year" Christmas Sale. Several Grandfather clocks, wall clocks and Mantle clocks are reduced through Dec. 31st. Come on by or call us today for great prices on Howard Millers Grandfather clocks.
$3,278.10 Delivered, Set Up Includes TaxesWe Delivered an new Howard Miller 611-102 Neilson Grandfather clock to one of our customers. This clock has been a #1 seller for several years now. Click here
for the full details. As always, every Howard Miller Grandfather clock as well as mantle and wall clocks we sell includes FREE shipping and Set up and we pay the Taxes. Give us a call at 678-462-7856 for a free quote on any new Howard Miller Grandfather clock. We will have several new Original Kit Kat Clocks at the Atlanta Home Show this year. Great prices and several to choose from.
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Clock Repair Service has been in business for over 10 years now. We service more Grandfather clocks than any other clock company in the state of Georgia. We have 2 Grandfather Clock Technicians that are on the road Monday - Friday repairing 2-3 Grandfather clocks per day, EACH.. That's allot of clocks in the past 10+ years. Our service area at this point is from Chattanooga, Tennessee down to Macon Georgia. The bulk of our Grandfather Clock repairs are however, in the Metro Atalanta area. We service Grandfather clocks ranging from 200+ years old to current models. We do service all brands of Grandfather Clocks and we are an Authorized Sales and Service center for both Howard Miller and Ridgeway clocks. Archives
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