How to: Properly Cleaning and Oiling Your Clock

This video is absolutely amazing and I love all the little stories included. It's too bad YouTube does not promote and push videos like this further and help the creators more

You usually disassemble clocks and clean the plates, wheels excreta in an ammonia biased cleaner. Old simple clocks are a lot easier to do then complicated three train clocks. After cleaning and reassembly you oil them of course, then they can be oiled every few years but will eventually need to be properly cleaned again at some point. What he is doing is ok but is more of a band aid. It's like putting oil in your car; the most important thing is you don't run the car low or out of oil. There are not many people who could take that movement apart and get it back together correctly, so there is that too. A mans got to know his limitations. Good luck!

Jan 14, 2024 I've watched your video on grandfather clock mechanism cleaning (along with a host of other YouTube videos on the subject). Today, I took the movement (which I had earlier removed from the clock) and cleaned and oiled it. I took my time and the work progressed without a hitch. Upon completion, I reinstalled the movement, face, weights, and pendulum. The clock now chimes all three tunes, gongs and accurately keeps time without any problems. Most of my time spent on this project involved watching YouTube videos and taking notes on the subject before I started anything else. The cleaning and oiling work really is very straight forward. Oh, and I did find using toothpicks would work but the force required to clean old oil out of the pivot holes caused the toothpicks to splinter or break. Toothpick wood seems to be too soft for this work. A sharpened, small-diameter wood dowel with small pieces of old T-shirt worked great for me doing this cleaning work. My clock is a 1982 Ridgeway Grandfather 3-chime, 3-weight, chain-driven Clock with a Urgos UW 32 570 D movement. My clock movement uses a single 6.2-pound weight along with two (2) 4.6-pound weights and a 35" long pendulum with 6.5" dia. bob. I've taken the movement out of the clock case to clean and oil it with the intent of restoring the gong and chime functions. The process of removing the movement from your clock case is straight forward and uses tapered pins to hold the clock face to the movement. Thank you for the straightforward, nicely shot video (great lighting, angles and audio) on clock cleaning and oiling.

Excellent video. Thank you so much for imparting your years of service to us.

Great stories. Thanks for sharing. Good tips, advice. I'm just finished up work on restoring an ST124.

Lovely stories Very therapeutic listening and watching.

That story of your son is CLASSIC!!!!!! LOL Great info thank you

Thanks great video! I have a Herschede model 294 that is not chiming (unless I give the chime train gear a little push). Boulgt a replair manual ad is sounds liek I need to clean and oil. Your video helped me feel better about all of it. :)

Thanks 👍

Awesome video

Thanks very much

Finally, I found someone who gave me Important information on cleaning and oiling. Thanks 🙏🏼. What was the brand cleaner that you use ? Again, thanks for the useful information.

Can you put the whole thing in an ultrasonic cleaner?

Help! After sonic cleaning the movement while together and then rinsed in baking soda then hot water, how do I oil the movement to keep from rusting? Thank you.

How will you clean it enough to get it to run? Ive only seen them disassembled then clean oil can hit the pivot.

My clock's legs are shaky and come out of the base-plate.It is very dangerous.How to make them secure with the base-plate?

I just got a hermle 141-031 and wanted to know if you had any info on that unit winding and oiling

You don't disassemble the movement? And clean all the. Parts?

What oil is recommended?

What brand oil??