How to assemble a clock mechanism for a wall clock. Wall clock repair

To create cozy home, many details need to be considered. First of all, this applies to interior and decor elements such as curtains, lamps, clocks and pillows. Today we propose to consider how to make a watch with your own hands. Everyone can make them. the main task- install a large working mechanism, usually bought in a specialized store. Having an old watch will greatly simplify the task, because you can use their mechanism. Everything else depends on your skill and imagination.

Wall clock in decoupage technique (MK)

You can make a clock for the kitchen with your own hands from scrap materials. But, if you want to create an original product, then the decoupage style will become ideal solution . Such a watch looks elegant and will become a unique decoration for the interior of the house. We offer an interesting master class that will help you create a wall clock on your own at minimal cost.

You also need to prepare:

hands with clockwork;
wooden base (round or square);
napkins and ready-made patterns on paper;
acrylic paints;
brushes;
sponges and varnish.

Making watches with your own hands in decoupage style is carried out in a certain sequence:

1. The workpiece is being processed . The basis of the future product must be sanded with sandpaper and coated three times with white acrylic paint, it will serve as the ground.

2. When the paint dries, a couple of centimeters retreat from the edge of the workpiece and outline the future framework .

Outline the frame

3. The texture is given to the basis , the color of painting is chosen, which is most suitable for the interior. The paint is diluted and applied with a sponge in a random manner to age the product.

Apply the second coat of paint

4. The frame of future watches stands out more dark color , brown paint is ideal for this.

Coloring the frame

5. From prepared rice paper cut pattern and applied to the workpiece . If a napkin is used, it is soaked in water and applied to the selected place on the dial. Glue is applied over the image.

Glue the image

6. Now you need to connect imagination and make the drawing fit organically into the surface. Paints of appropriate tones and a sponge will help here. With their help a smooth transition is created from the pattern to the surface of the dial. It is important to be extremely careful, if you cope with this task, then you are a great master.

Making a smooth transition

7. At this stage you need to age the product , for this, a two-component cracking agent is applied with a dry brush to the surface (you can buy it in a store where goods for handicrafts are presented).

Apply a layer for craquelure

8. After the craquelure dries, cracks will appear on the product, which will give it elegance. The workpiece is varnished as a protective layer.

We cover with varnish

At the end, it remains to install the arrows, the mechanism and glue the numbers (the latter can be drawn according to the template). Now the clock has a complete look, it can be used as a decor for the kitchen, bedroom, living room.

The finished result

On video: making wall clocks using decoupage technique

Cardboard clock (MK)

Some needlewomen make a clock for the kitchen with their own hands from cardboard. Such a decor item can become not only useful, but also an exclusive thing. Before answering the question of how to make a watch out of cardboard, you need to make sure that you have the appropriate materials.

For work you will need:

thick cardboard;
multi-colored caps or buttons;
working mechanism and arrows;
compass;
PVA glue.

To make a wall clock with your own hands, follow these steps:

1. A circle is made on a cardboard with a compass and then cut out.

Cut a circle out of cardboard

2.Caps or buttons are glued with glue in the appropriate places.

We glue the caps to the cardboard

3. Numbers are depicted on the caps (use a marker or acrylic paint, depending on the material from which the parts are made).

Draw numbers

4. A hole is made in the center of the marked circle for the installation of the mechanism and arrows.

Making a hole

5. The last step is to install the arrow mechanism. A battery is also inserted to operate the clock.

As you can see, a clock made of cardboard can be made very quickly and no special skills are needed for this, but such a decoration will complement the interior of the selected room.

Quilling style product(MK)

A good option would be to make a quilling watch. In such arts and crafts, paper strips of different widths and lengths are used.. They are twisted into patterns, a composition is formed. You can make such a watch according to the following scheme:

The clock will be based on thick cardboard or plywood. Black paper is glued to the body. To create contrast, decorative elements are mostly created from white or light colored paper. When choosing a color, the interior of the room where the clock will be installed is taken into account. They must fit harmoniously.

This is what the finished product looks like.

Numbers are made from prepared strips of paper. To do this, use short strips. Along with this, decorative elements are twisted. Various compositions are used for decoration. These can be flowers or just patterns. It is better to draw a sketch in advance, which will allow you to evaluate appearance future product.

We twist from paper strips patterns and numbers

3. Created numbers and decorative elements glued to the selected places with PVA glue.

Glue the finished elements to the base

4. A hole is made in the center of the base and a mechanism with arrows is installed.

Installing the clockwork

Ideas for creating wall clocks vary. Focus on the materials that you have in stock, but there may be a lot of them. The use of additional elements is allowed, be it lace, satin ribbons, beads, rhinestones or even stickers. A wall clock for the kitchen made of paper or other materials will always allow you to know the time. A made element of decor with my own hands will please the eye.

As an idea, you can try to make a wristwatch, but in this case everything is much more complicated.. This is due to their small size. The best option here will be an experiment with straps. Combining chains of different thicknesses will allow you to create an original wrist watch. Also, zippers, elastic bands, beads can serve as a decorative strap.

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Our Community has collected excellent material on painting and decoupage watches.

But we missed one point - installation of the clock mechanism.

Helpful information about clockwork:

The case of the movement has the following dimensions: width: 56 mm, height: 56 mm, thickness: 16 mm, stem diameter: 8 mm (diameter of the stem hole in the dial).

The stem is the part of the movement that is threaded through the hole in the center of the dial. It consists of a threaded part, a seat for the hour hand, a seat for the minute hand and a hole for the second hand.

The threaded portion of the stem must be at least 2 mm thicker than the dial thickness. This is necessary in order to secure the mechanism (install the washer and tighten the nut).

For example: stem 16/9 means that the height of the threaded part = 9 mm. This means that the thickness of the dial should be no more than 7 mm, so that the movement with such a stem can be fixed.

In the name of the movement, the first is the overall size of the stem, and the second is the size of the threaded part (12/6, 16/9, 18/12, etc.)

Clock mechanisms differ in the course of the second hand:

The watch can be hung by the metal loop:

The size of the arrows is indicated from the center of the hole to the tip of the arrow:

It happens on the arrows protective film, which must be removed during installation:

Installing the clockwork and hands on the workpiece:

1. Install the fixing loop onto the mechanism

2. Pass the mechanism rod through the hole on the product. Fit the washer, tighten the nut.

3. Put the arrows on the rod: first hour hand, then minute and second (it must be inserted into the hole). In order not to damage the arrows during fitting onto the stem, it is recommended to use a tube of the required diameter. If you don't have a special tool at hand, you can use a simple ballpoint pen.

The clock from the Soviet times broke down, or rather the mechanism of the wall clock itself. I don't want to throw away the clock for my own reasons. Perhaps they fit the interior and there is no way to buy the same ones, or the clock is important as a gift for a long memory, but buying new ones is expensive or you don’t want to. In general, it will be faster and cheaper to completely replace a broken clockwork (which keeps time) than trying to fix it.

Then I decided to look for a clock mechanism for sale separately.
For some reason it seemed to me that the clock mechanism was expensive and made up a large
part of the cost of the watch. It turned out that the watch mechanism can be bought in bulk from 60
rubles! True, it is with a discrete course and noisy. Moreover, these mechanisms
standardized and have the same mounting dimensions. Find a store that
I would sell the watch mechanisms I needed at retail, it turned out to be difficult. V
in the end, for 150 rubles I bought a silent mechanism with floating fur in the Bangood store Coupon(12% off) Code: BGHome

The old mechanism worked for 20 years.

New silent clock mechanism.

s, everything I put it in the old watch case, everything fit fine and the hands also came up, except for the second in my case.You can change the mechanism yourself, since now the repair of wall clocks has become very simple and cheap. I bought it, unscrewed the old one, put the new one in, and you're done.

Arrows packed in a separate bag

The task is to remove the old mechanism from the watch case. Then install the new mechanism. After that, install the arrows on the axis of the mechanism: the first is the hour, the second is the minute, the last is the second.

This mechanism is very quiet and takes several steps in a second. I am writing after a couple of months - it works perfectly, does not run away, does not knock, and does not interfere with sleep at night.

If your quartz wall clock is brokenor tired of their loud ticking, the most cheap way get workingsilent clock is to buy a separate clock mechanism and install it yourselfhim to the old building.You can also create on the basis of the clockwork

It all started with the fact that 2 years ago, from a trip to Belarus, I brought my grandfather a watch of local production of the TROYKA brand as a gift.

This watch has a smooth running quartz movement (there is an abbreviation MPH :)), i.e. the second hand does not click loudly every second, but rather quietly rustles continuously. From the included salt battery, the clock quite accurately departed for 2 months. Well, I replaced it with an alkaline one and the clock got up in a month. Replaced again, again passed about a month. After the 3rd battery change, it became clear that something was wrong. Having checked the "dead" batteries, I realized that they were still alive. After consulting the nearest blogosphere, I found out that such mechanisms are not repaired and are easier to throw out. I scored until one day in Ikea I saw their cheapest model of watch and took it in my hands to see what kind of mechanism was there.
Here they are - the simplest plastic case and plastic glass, paper dial

Suddenly, the very same mechanism was installed in them, and on the sticker there was a mysterious inscription "Made in Belarus" = D

The price of the unit turned out to be something in the region of 250 rubles, I grabbed them gladly and rushed home to dissect. Swapped mechanisms. It is not difficult - the arrows are carefully removed from the stem, after which it is necessary to squeeze the latches a little and remove the mechanism from the case, assemble in the reverse order. The Ikeevsky version is disassembled in general in 1 minute, there is not even a single bolt there.

So, I assembled, put used batteries in both copies. Surprisingly, both went. I thought that when removing the arrows, he could fix something inside the old mechanism. But after about a month of working on a second-hand battery, the electricity zhor was drawn again.

The "repaired" Belarusian watch ran normally, the battery was not consumed earlier than it should have been. But I wouldn’t be me, if that’s where it all ended happily. Suddenly the watch refused to function in its natural upright position. Only horizontally! In this case, the mechanism revolves, but something has moved away somewhere. I both shook and knocked them, no, they do not go. Then I decided on an autopsy.

The autopsy was unsuccessful. The gears all got enough sleep and I spent the next half hour installing them back. At the same time, I did not notice any defects by eye. The engine was running, everything was turning. And in the assembled state, the watch still did not go.

Then for the 3rd time I went to the store for a watch and bought it. I unpacked it at home, there was another mechanism inside! I'm depressed. On the other hand, maybe there really were a lot of defects according to the previous model. Reassembled, hung up, everything works. The move is accurate.

And only then I suddenly googled ... rukalitso.zhpg

Much has come to light. To begin with, all mechanisms are universal, i.e. have the same size, but differ in the length of the stem on which the arrows are installed. This was done to allow the use of dials of different thicknesses, and it can also be provided for fastening to the dial with a nut for the stem. I even recognized one of the most common models of Chinese movements - this is JL 6262. Chinese shops during the crisis sell it for about 300 rubles apiece, that is. in pre-crisis times, the price was quite affordable. Here, I did not find anything except wholesale in boxes. One article advertised the GrandTime sweep mechanism in comparison with this JL 6262. For it, the scrap rate is stated as ≤0.05%, while for JL it is ≥4%, and the accuracy is 1-2 seconds per day. I wonder what percentage of the marriage I got ... For working mechanisms, the operating time from an alkaline battery should be about 8-11 months and the service life of the mechanism about 6 years. Somehow not very much. I think many people still have Soviet clocks with discrete movements at home, which have been clinking for 30 years.

Thinking about the use of carcasses from Ikeev watches, I, without any illusions, ordered a mechanism from the Chinese for testing that cost less than $ 1 (this is already with delivery), but with a longer stem under the nut (you can hit the hand made). And not so long ago, this mechanism reached me.

The quality of the plastic is normal. For such a price, I generally expected some kind of horror. Suggest to use alkaline batteries

Stem thread

Plugged a truly Chinese mechanism into an IKEE watch

The first surprise - the mechanism was powered by an old battery, which I was about to throw away. But here is a slightly longer stem not completely retracted under the glass. When lightly pressed on the glass from the outside, the second hand stalled. He got out of the position not completely inserting the glass into the latches. And so it keeps pretty strong. So if you are going to change the mechanism, check if the length is enough for you.
The second surprise - the accuracy of this movement turned out to be higher than that of my Casio wristwatches!

Let's start to figure it out!

Most of the movements (almost all) presented in various hobby shops are quartz movements. They trace their history since 1957, have high accuracy (plus / minus one second per day) and are perfect for use in everyday life. Such a mechanism can be called an electromechanical type.

Once a second, a quartz crystal transmits an impulse to the electronic unit. From there, it is transferred to the engine, which pushes the arrows. An ordinary finger-type battery (AA battery) is used as a power supply for the electronic unit.

Among the disadvantages of such a mechanism, one can single out the fact that after several years of use the crystal loses its properties, and the clock begins to rush. However, this problem is easily solved by purchasing a new mechanism (since the main advantage of quartz watch movements is their inexpensive price) or by replacing the crystal in a watch shop.

Stem and thread heights

To choose the right movement, you need to start from the thickness of the workpiece first of all.

The main parameters that are indicated in the movement are the total height of the stem and the height of the thread.

After you put the watch base on the stem, the thread should rise above the base for a few more turns (about 2-3 mm), so that its height is enough to put a metal washer and tighten the nut.

In the name of the movement, the first number is the height of the stem, and the second is the height of the thread (16/9, 18/12, 20/14, etc.).

When buying a watch movement, it is better to know in advance the thickness of the workpiece that you will be decorating in order to choose a movement with a suitable stem height. By the way, don't forget to take into account the decor itself! The number of layers of primer, paint, varnish and especially relief elements can greatly increase the overall thickness of the workpiece.

Example. We have a 15 / 6.7 movement. This means that we need to subtract two millimeters from the height of 6.7 (to secure the nut). It turns out that for such a mechanism we can use a workpiece no thicker than 4.7 mm.

Simple and reinforced clocks and hands

Clockwork mechanisms are simple and reinforced.

Reinforced watch movements are equipped with increased torque, and parts made from materials of higher quality are used. Such mechanisms are more reliable and are designed to work well with large arrows (up to 35 cm, up to 50 cm, and even up to 1 meter for some manufacturers) and large diameter bases. When choosing hands for the movement, it is important that they match each other! The hands are different for normal and heavy-duty mechanisms and are not interchangeable.

If you are going to decorate a workpiece of a rather large diameter, it would be more logical for you to take a closer look at the reinforced clockwork mechanisms and hands.

Quiet: discrete and smooth running

Watch mechanisms differ in the type of movement of the second hand:

Clockwork with discrete movement - the second hand makes 60 movements per minute, emitting a characteristic sound when each division is changed, the clock is ticking. However, there are so-called "silent" models, the sound of which is almost imperceptible.

It is best to check the movement at the time of purchase to assess the degree of noiselessness. In our showroom you can always ask for a battery and check the clockwork :)

Clockwork with a smooth movement - the second hand makes 360 movements per minute and visually it seems that it "floats" smoothly. Such models are called silent, but they still emit some kind of sound, and this must also be taken into account. In addition, mechanisms of this type are at least twice as expensive as discrete ones, and due to the fact that the number of pulses per minute is six times more, the batteries in them sit down much faster.

Choosing hands for watch movements

Like mechanisms, watch hands are simple and reinforced. Plain hands are suitable for simple type movements, and reinforced hands are specially designed for reinforced mechanisms.

Arrows can be purchased individually or in packs.

Hands are traditionally hour, minute and second.

However, the second hand can be neglected, and instead of it, put a dummy carnation.

Arrows come in a wide variety of shapes, colors and sizes. The length of the arrow is indicated from the center of the hole to the tip of the arrow.

Sometimes the arrows have a protective transparent film - do not forget to remove it before using the arrows.

After the film has been removed, the arrows can also be decorated, for example, aged with bitumen or painted in a different color.

The order of assembly of the clockwork

So, we have chosen the mechanism, the arrows too. There is very little left: to put all the parts together and start the clock.

Let's take a look at the watch mechanism assembly process step by step with photos.

1. We take the clockwork.

2. We put on a metal loop. If you will be using the clock in any other way, and not hang it on a nail in the wall, then you can skip this step.

3. We put on a rubber washer-gasket.

4. Putting on the watch base! We carefully scroll through the entire thread. Sometimes, due to layers of soil, varnish and paint, the hole in the workpiece is clogged and the threaded rod does not fit into it.

In this case, clean the hole with something sharp, or sand off the excess with rolled sandpaper.