How Do You Regulate A Grandfather Clock?
Grandfather clocks do almost as much for a home as a grandfather himself. Few things can warm up a room better than either of them. However, for the remainder of this article, I will apply myself to regulating the grandfather clock and allow grandpa to nap a bit longer. Regulating a grandfather clock is simply making adjustments in order to make its time keeping ability more accurate. Weight-driven grandfather clocks can be regulated to keep very accurate time because the weights used to drive the movement deliver a consistent amount of torque to the drive mechanism of the clock. Having said this, lets move right to the pendulum bob and adjustment nut. The raising and lowering of the pendulum bob increases or decreases the grandfather clock’s rate of regularity. An example would go something like this: Your grandfather clock is running fast (lets say five minutes every 24 hours). You would want to lower the pendulum bob to slow your grandfather clock down. There is no accurate incremen
