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Hello

I have German Weiler Matador lathe. It had small gearbox fault, some small screws loosened, dropped and jammed gearbox lever. I had to remove gearbox but I did not need to break up the gearbox. Before I could remove gearbox I have to remove covers, Apron and lead screw. I also had to remove gears, pulley and belt seen on following Youtube video.

Now I am not sure if I managed to assemble lathe correctly again. Lever I use on video (lower and left one) should change transmission between belt and gears. But does it work as it should?

Are there any Weiler Matador owners? Does Your Matador act like mine?

Jouni

Link to video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Gzwdou59k

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 16/09/2018 15:18:49

Perhaps I should say that I am trying to make my clock work again. instead of restoring it. I agree that it would be better to store oririnal dial and make a new one. Propably that would be much faster to make new dial than repaint old. Either way, value of my clock is quite low.Someone from the past has already fixed it very badly If You look at following picture, you can see part of the pocket watch soldered to clock plate used as a bushing and pocket watch wheels used as a washers. I am quite sure that these are not original parts of the movement.

My clock has more square case than those pregnant belly clocks. I do not know if this case (or movement) is original or not.

Back to the original questtion. If everyone says that number above 12 is 60 I accept that, but in my opinion that number does not look like 60. If number is not 60, is the any reason for that?

Jouni

Hello

I have old Swedish Mora grandfather clock I am going to restore. Clock Dial is painted on metal plate and in my opinion it is beyond restoring. I have to remove paint and repaint it. I am wondering why dial has number 59 (or perhaps 39) painted above 12 o´clock. Does someone knows why there is number 59/39 above 12 instead of number 60?

Jouni

If You are making models, do You need self made screws at all? Perhaps all You need to make is something that looks like screw head. Make brass pins with screw head and use commercial hidden screws to fasten parts together.

Jouni

Yours
Jouni