Chime bind on large 3/c popular european mechanism /kienninger grandfather clock movements:
check pulleys; hammer
lift alignment ; lift pin burrs; throw out arm must be perfectly straight ; 90deg. to
hammer
lift drum. Check hammer pivot shaft support and spring ten sion and amount of lift.
Some hammer assembly shafts on floor clocks are threaded that will make
the hammers not line up with the hammer lift pins if the shaft is un-threaded slightly;
be sure to check this.
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