As recently posted, I had this badly broken and bent part for the long case clock needing repair. This rod connects the pendulum to the escapement the crucial bit that allows for the conversion of the pendulums period to meter rotary motion
The “steel” rod is wrought iron which is different to work with
The process was:
- Bend everything straight using localized red heat so as to not fracture
- silver solder the fracturing along the parts (three locations)
- join the two broken pieces via a silver soldered scarf joint
Everything worked out well and its soon to go back into the clock (after the clock is serviced)
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