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Clock Repair Articles

Clock Beat Rates – BPH

Rate calculation The rate of a clock is determined by two things – the length of the pendulum and the total gear ratio of the time train of the clock. […]

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Clock Information

Making an Antique Clock Useful – Timekeeping Adjustment

Clocks are most useful when they keep accurate time. While very few mechanical clocks are as accurate as modern quartz movements and no mechanical clock will ever match the absolute accuracy […]

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Little Log House Antique Power Show

We had a great time at the Little Log House Antique Power Show in Hastings, MN this past weekend. Ashland Hollow Clock Repair organized a building to show clocks and […]

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Clock Information

Evaluating A Clock For Purchase

You have your eye on a clock that’s for sale. Maybe it’s at a retail establishment, maybe a garage sale. You give it a look. The case seems decent; all […]

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Pocket Watches

Owning and Caring for an Antique Pocket Watch

Mechanical watches are amazing. Tracing their history back over 1000 years to the Nuremberg Egg watches and affordable only by royalty until less than 200 years ago, the industrial revolution […]