How To Repair A Music Box That Operates With The Same Chain As The Cuvkoo Bird

HOW TO Go Help

Simple PROBLEMS

SERVICE STATIONS

UNPACKING A NEW
CUCKOO CLOCK

SHIPPING A
CUCKOO CLOCK

REPLACEMENT PARTS

Elementary Bug

Please note: We are trying to explain the solutions to a few piece of cake problems here. However if you should try to gear up such a problem yourself, y'all DO THIS AT YOUR OWN Take a chance. Yous should also note that this may VOID THE WARRANTY on your clock.

If y'all practise not feel comfortable working on the clock yourself, see HOW TO GET HELP.

Here is the listing of simple issues:

Afterward unpacking the clock the cuckoo (and the music with musical clocks) does not work
A concatenation is off the cycle
The Clock runs too dull / besides fast
The Clock Stops
The clock does not cuckoo on the full and on the one-half-hour, but at other times
The cuckoo calls the incorrect fourth dimension (for example 5 times at 7 o'clock, 6 times at 8 o'clock)
Later the cuckoo has called, the door stays open up

After unpacking the clock the cuckoo (and the music with musical clocks) does not piece of work

Please brand follow the SETUP INSTRUCTIONS advisedly, when unpacking the clock. If the clock should not piece of work in the end, please check the following points:

Clambs on Bellows 1. Have the clamps been removed from the bellows inside the clock as described in the instructions (meet picture)?

ii. Has the cuckoo's door been "unlocked"? Yous have to turn a petty wire to the side, that secured the door while aircraft (see picture).

Night shut-off wire 3. Delight cheque the position of the night close-off. The most common reason why cuckoo and music practice non work is that they have been turned off. With some clocks the dark shut-off is a switch at the left side of the clock, with other types it is a wire nether the clock (come across moving-picture show). Check both positions of the night shut off and make certain that the switch is not "somewhere between" the ON and OFF position.

A concatenation is off the wheel

If one of the weights always drops to the floor at once, the concatenation has fallen off the cycle. Fixing this is non so easy, it volition require patience.

Chains To fix this pull the other chains fully upwards, remove all weights. Take a slice of wire and secure the other chains under the clock'southward case "as close as possible" to the lesser of the case (run across picture). This is VERY Important, otherwise the other chains will fall of their wheels too during the next stride.

Take the clock from the wall, open it on the dorsum. At present plough the clock upside-downward and try to balance the chain back on the bike.

The Clock runs likewise slow / too fast

The pendulum is responsible for making the clock keep fourth dimension. If your clock runs too fast, you can move the pendulum-disc downwardly a petty on the pendulum to correct this. If the clock is running to slow you lot have to motion the pendulum-disc up. This should also be described in your clock's setup instructions.

Keep in mind that moving the pendulum leaf or disc 1/viii Inch (3 mm) on the pendulum stick is equal to a three infinitesimal change in a 24 hour period.

The Clock Stops

Please make sure that the clock is adjusted properly on the wall. The clock must exist placed in a correct vertical position and then that the pendulum tin can swing freely.

You must "listen" to the clock and be certain that the clock has an fifty-fifty Tick-Tock sound. Practise not accommodate the clock with your eyes, practice information technology with your ears. This is adjusted by moving the clock to the right or left, until yous hear the tick tock sound which is fifty-fifty.

The clock does not cuckoo on the total and on the half-60 minutes, only at other times

It is not the cuckoo that goes incorrect, simply the infinitesimal-manus is in the wrong position.

To adjust the hand you should, loosen the hand nut, and reposition the minute-hand to the proper hr, and retighten the paw nut.

The cuckoo calls the wrong time (for case v times at vii o'clock, 6 times at eight o'clock)

It is not the cuckoo that goes wrong, but the 60 minutes-hand is in the incorrect position.

To ready the hour paw, you tin pull the hand at the zipper bespeak on the handshaft, pulling towards the minute hand until it is loose, reposition the paw to the proper hour, and push the hand towards the dial until it is tight.

If your clock uses wooden hands you may need a little glue (cyanoacrylat "super glue" ) to attach the hand again, simply please be very careful with the glue.

Subsequently the cuckoo has chosen, the door stays open

If y'all open up the clock on the back you will see a thin wire that starts at the bellows and goes upwards to the cuckoo. This wire should move the cuckoo upwards and downwards a petty while information technology calls. It is not continued with the cuckoo only usually ends under the cuckoo's tail (run across picture show).

During shipping it may happen that this wire is turned in a higher place the cuckoo. If it is to a higher place, it may cake the cuckoo and the door.

To fix this you can simply turn the wire around the cuckoo - carefully - then it is under the cuckoo'southward tail again. This should be quite easy if you open the cuckoo'due south door (the cuckoo volition move forward when the door is opened).