Schatz Royal Mariner Manual

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I was given a Schatz mechanical ship's clock a few years ago and it has been back for repair three times. According to the last but one clock maker said that part of the mechanism was made of steel and it had a tendancy to rust. So not ideal in a marine environment! It has packed up again and has been with its current repairer for 3 months. Mar 16, 2016 This one does not look like the Royal Mariner to me. There are differenced inside between the Royal Mariner and the 'regular' Schatz ship's bells clock which was sold with and without the ship's helm. The Royal Mariner should have that name on the dial. Schatz Royal Mariner Manual Schatz 49 Anniversary Clock. Schatz Royal Mariner Clock (1975) Schatz Ship's Bell Clock (1980) This page offers tips for repair of a Schatz Royal Mariner ship's bell clock. The principles are the same for other Schatz ship's clocks and similar for Chelsea ship's bell clocks. The sequence for the bells is the same. Save schatz royal mariner clock to get e-mail alerts and updates on your eBay Feed. + Update your shipping location 7 S 0 P O N S O A R P A 7 E E D-1-1 U J-1 0 F J-1. The company was founded by August Schatz in the mid-1850s in the Black Forest region of Triburg, Germany. It was registered in 1881 as Schatz & Wintermantel, and was re-structured in 1884 as Jahresuhrenfabrik A.G. It was registered again in1897 as Jahresuhrenfabrik GmbH, and finally in 1923 as Jahresuhrenfabrik August Schatz & Sohne.

QUESTION: I recently bought (on Ebay) a Schatz ship's bells clock for my husband. It keeps good time and chimes. However, it chimes 1 then 1 again on the half hour, ending upwith 4 bells when it should be 8 - there is no 'double' bell sound. On one of the half hours there is no bell. Is there a simple solution to this problem or do I need to find a clock repairer? Will it be possible/straightforward for an expert to repair?

ANSWER: There were two different movements used in these clock so the repair will depend on what one you have. If you are mechanically inclined you should be able to fix it and I'll be happy to help.You will need to take the movement out of the case. It sounds like this clock is 'upside down'. The clock always drops two hammers regardless if it's the 1/2 hour or the hour. There is a cam and a lever (and sometimes a spring) that grab the hammer so it will not strike when the last hammer drops. This gives you an odd strike on the 1/2 hour.If you want to do this repair I would like to see a photo of the movement after you get it out of the case.


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QUESTION: Hello again,I hope these photos are helpful. The clock is a Schatz Royal Mariner. (2 keyholes on the dial and a bell with an 8 in it).Thanks,Margaret


ANSWER: Margaret, thanks for the photo. Hopefully this is an easy fix. There are two hammers on the back of the movement to strike the bell. It sounds like only one of them is hitting the bell. Check to see if both hammers are lifting and dropping. If they are, you should just need to bend the wire of the hammer that is not hitting the bell so that it will strike the bell.Let me know what you find.


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QUESTION: Hello again, ,

We have delved further and find that the second hammer is sitting permanently on the bell. It isn't lifting.

Margaret

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You can bend the wire of the hammer that is sitting on the bell so that the hammer is not resting on the bell. See if it will lift.If it will not lift, you will need to follow that wire to the point where the lifting happens to find out why it will not.Let me know what you find.

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Schatz 49 Anniversary Clock.
Schatz Royal Mariner Clock (1975).
Schatz Ship's Bell Clock (1980).

Click on the image below to view tips for setting up an anniversary clock.


This page offers tips for servicing an anniversary clock. The gears are cleaned in clock cleaning solution, but the plates are cleaned by hand. Care is taken not to damage the clear lacquer coating on the plates. The mainspring is removed from the barrel using a mainspring winder. The mainspring is cleaned using trichloroethane (brake cleaner). It is often necessary to use steel wool (medium or coarse) to remove the hard 'varnish' on the surface of the mainspring. Then you must inspect the mainspring very carefully to make sure no amount of steel wool is left on the mainspring. Cleaning the mainspring is one of the most important steps in servicing an anniversary clock and one of the most frequently overlooked! The mainspring should be inspected thoroughly for irregularities, such as uneven curvature or any hairline cracks along the edges. Any irregularities found should result in the replacement of the mainspring. Once it is cleaned and inspected, it is lubricated with moly-graphite grease along its entire length and reinstalled into the barrel using the mainspring winder.


Place the back plate over the parts and insert the lower screws first. Insert the pivots into the bushing holes, one by one, working your way from the bottom up, using a pivot locator (see my page about clock tools on this website). Press down lightly on the back plate as you guide each pivot into place. If you press down hard, you could easily damage one or more of the smaller pivots.

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Here are front and rear views of the mechanism after assembly.


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You need to check the escapement. This particular clock has adjustable pallets, which is a major advantage. The lock on both sides should be the same. The drop on both sides should be the same. Anniversary clocks require more lock than a clock with an ordinary pendulum, such as a grandfather clock, so the lock should certainly not be adjusted to a minimum here. Check the lock and drop with each and every tooth of the escape wheel. Any irregularity means that the escape wheel should be replaced. I have seen several anniversary clocks with escape wheels that were not true. Do not attempt adjustments to the escapement if you do not know how to do this!


The replacement of a damaged or twisted suspension spring is made much easier with the “400 day clock repair guide,” by Charles Terwilleger, a highly recommended book. It shows full-scale drawings of the suspension units, so that you can simply lay the parts on the page and assemble them to match the drawing designed for your particular clock. When the suspension unit is mounted, the pallet pin goes inside the suspension fork. Fire pro wrestling world ring textures. The gap between the fork must be slightly more than the diameter of the pin, in order to allow for the movement of the pin from side to side (to prevent binding).

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The beat is adjusted with a beat adjustment tool, like the one below. You want the overswing to be equal on both sides. The overswing is the angle the pendulum turns after the pallet releases the escape tooth. You need to look at the escapement and the pendulum at the same time to see this.



If you repair many anniversary clocks, you will find that not all the drawings in the book are perfect. It may be necessary to adjust the height of the suspension fork, which affects the amplitude of oscillation of the pendulum. The amplitude for a full-size Schatz 49, like this one, should be a little less than 270º, or a little less than three quarters of a turn. Some of the miniature anniversary clocks have much greater amplitude, but some of the full-size clocks have less. If the fork is too high, the clock will run for a while and eventually stop. If the fork is too low, the escapement may occasionally flutter unexpectedly, causing the clock to gain time suddenly. It should be obvious by now that, despite the apparent simplicity of the anniversary clock, repairing one correctly actually requires a lot of practice!

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The bushings of the barrel and the first two gears should be lubricated with grease (before assembly). The bushings for the upper gears and the escapement should be lubricated with a light oil (after assembly).

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