Re: Big Ben
Here you go Azz, . . Big Ben, . . . I adjusted the screw which alters the escapement mechanism last night and was spot on, it's kept perfect time all night.
The main spring is housed in the large cogwheel drum in bottom of pic, . . the drum separates in two and the spring was a bleedin joy to re-insert.
Made in Scotland on Clydeside.
This is the new model, made in the USA, it's all plastic unlike the original ones which are steel, . . it's not a repeater either, and needs wound up every day unlike the original which ticks away for 6 days.
Another industry we lost up here thanks to dear old Maggie, . . . she hates us you know.