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| The time setting dial lacks a small brass pointer |
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The time indicating dial lacks a small fixed brass pointer. This will be made later & then lacquered to match the rest of the brass and bronze parts. This dial allows the time on the external dials to be quickly set from within the clock tower. Useful for the twice-a-year hourly changes for "Daylight Saving Time". Though normally the clock is as accurate as the controlling master clock. The reliability of the 'WT' meant that few timekeeping corrections were neccessary.
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| The escape wheel arbor lacks a time setting handle & crank |
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The shaft to which the escape wheel and worm are attached requires a small handle & crank to be made. So that the movement& hands on the external clock dials can be set to time. By winding the escape wheel quickly forwards it rotates the worm & wormwheel, the crownwheel gear cluster and finally the hands on the outside of the tower.
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| The Hipp Toggle lacks a damper arm |
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A brass damping arm for the Hipp Toggle is normally attached by the two screw holes visible on the bare upper frame to the right of the pendulum.
This item will be made from brass rod with an attachment plate, carefully bent to shape and then finally lacquered. The damper's contact with the Hipp Toggle is via a short rubber tube fitted over the bent brass arm. The image will be updated when the damper is completed.
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The completed & working contact assembly still needs to be lacquered to match the other brass and bronze parts.
Note the smaller contacts which are associated with spark suppression. The main contacts (just below the V block) switch the 20 Volt power electromagnets on and off.
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