About this item
Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast. The Clock Repairer’s Handbook provides information on how to repair and maintain a clock’s delicate mechanics and teaches the basics of clock repairing through detailed, easy-to-follow instructions and more than three hundred instructive diagrams and illustrations. Advice and directions for cleaning clock movements, pivoting and mounting, fixing train faults and gears, the importance of lubrication and friction, and how to make sure the strike and chimes work on the hour, every hour. The Clock Repairer’s Handbook provides all the necessary information to troubleshoot any clock’s problems and to make sure your clock continues to run in perfect order for generations to come.
About the Author
Laurie Penman (1932) is a Mechanical Engineer who practiced as a designer for two decades before becoming a clock maker and restorer in 1972. The change was the result of a long stay in hospital - and it was there that the idea of the Celtic Empire was born. There are four books written so far: Seeds of Empire,Camelod,Invasion,Boudica,in the meantime Laurie became known as a teacher of clock making, publishing several books on the subject: Clock Design & Construction, Clock Repairer's Handbook, Practical Clock Escapements, The Carriage Clock. Laurie contributes monthly columns to a couple of clock magazines, has constructed and operated a correspondence course, and produced a small number of booklets on clock making techniques. He moved to America in 2002 to take up a position with the American Watchmaker-Clockmaker Institute in Ohio, coming back again to Britain in 2010 He lives with his wife of fifty seven years in Worcestershire. Still writing - because it is easier than working.
