This Old Clock

by David Goodman

This is a how-to book for people getting into clock repair. It is based on handouts Dr. Goodman used in teaching his clock repair classes. After Dr. Goodman passed away, it fell out of print. During his lifetime, it was widely used and widely recommended in places like the Message Board of the National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors. It is used both by beginners and by experienced clock repairers looking for new tricks. It covers the following TOOLS TERMINOLOGY WHAT 'SA CLOCK? AMERICAN COUNT WHEEL STRIKING FRENCH COUNT WHEEL STRIKING FRENCH RACK STRIKING ENGLISH RACK STRIKING ADJUSTING THE STRIKE SKETCH THE CLOCK TAKE THE CLOCK APART CLEANING MAINSPRINGS FIRST WHEEL BUSHING TOOTH REPLACEMENT PUT THE CLOCK TOGETHER LUBRICATION RECOIL ESCAPEMENT IN BEAT WHEN THE CLOCK STOPS WHY THE RECOIL? DEADBEAT ESCAPEMENT SOLDERING CLOCK WEIGHTS BALANCE WHEELS CLOCKS CHIMING CLOCKS THE M-M LATHE THE MOST COMPLICATED CLOCK TIPS ON TOCKS INDEX

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 28, 2019

About the author

David Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, author of seven books (including three NY Times bestsellers), and a contributing writer for Mother Jones. His most recent book, co-authored with his sister Amy Goodman (host of Democracy Now!), is Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (Hyperion, paperback 2009), which profiles the movers and movements that have defended democracy in the U.S. and helped bring about the current historic electoral changes. David and Amy Goodman's first book, The Exception to the Rulers, was named by Publishers Weekly as one of the Top 50 Nonfiction Books of 2004, and Booksense chose it as the top nonfiction book of the 2004 election season.

David Goodman's articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Outside, The Nation, and many other publications. He has been featured on numerous radio and television news shows, including Democracy Now!, Fresh Air, CNN, and the PBS Lehrer News Hour. His reporting is included in the American Empire Project book, In the Name of Democracy (Metropolitan, 2005) and No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000 (Africa World Press, 2007).

David lives with his wife, Sue Minter, and their two children in Vermont."

Reviews

[Christopher Grant · Rating 1 out of 5]

Good material poor digitalization

The material is fine, but the kindle edition is rotated sideways and each scan overlaps. As a result you have to turn off rotation and turn your device to read it, and you have to hunt on the next page to figure out where they stopped previously. It makes for a very disjointed reading experience. If the fixed the digitization so the pages lined up correctly, this would rate much higher.

[Eric Gibson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Still hasn't been fixed

I read the reviews and thought that they would have fixed this. Nope. Pages skip all over. 34, 7,41,23,12. Didn't find page 1 until I was 50% thru the book.

Come on guys. I could scan this and publish it on my home pc in an hour. Surely you could fix the formatting in less time than that.