Hi,
Okay I'm not crazy but we have a very strange clock. We were given an old Linden electronic chime clock years ago. It stopped yesterday and I replaced the D cell and it ran about 12 hours and stopped. I wasn't sure if the battery was fresh so this morning I took it back down to see if I could find another battery and couldn't so I just hung it back on the wall without one in it. Well my wife walked by and said it was running and I said the pendulum was just swinging where I put it back on but it couldn't be running because there was no battery in it. An hour later and the thing is still going with no battery??? Cant see anywhere for another battery to go. Is it possible it has stored power somewhere? Any ideas?
The other clock is a Hermle 451 I'm working on. It was so gummy that the chimes and striker would not even work after being triggered. After I cleaned it twice the chimes will work fine but the clock won't run for more than about ten minute. Have checked all the wheels and pivot points and all looks good. The tic and tock seems to be in the same point almost straight down- centering the middle weight. The swing keeps getting shorter until it just sort of vibrates a bit straight down for a bit then quits. There is no adjustment for verge depth and it does have the autobeat verge. Teeth on escapement wheel look good. If you take the verge off the rest of the wheels will spin freely with no binding. I saw another thread on this site about the same issue but can't see if there was ever a resolution.
Thanks,
Charles K