The easiest way to adjust this in the first instance is simply to tip the clock on the wall.
Wall clock pendulum stops.
If it s not doing this it will stop.
Clock was working fine took it off wall and removed pendulum to paint the wall.
Grandfather clocks should sit level.
If you ve recently moved your clock you should check the foundation for levelness.
So the first thing to check is that it is in beat.
The pendulum should tick with an even beat like a metronome tick.
Here are some other common ailments that are meant to be.
It is not broken only out of beat.
Move the pendulum back and forth with your fingers.
Clock is ticking ok but stops.
Pendulum clock will stop when it has been moved bumped or even a too aggressive push to restart a pendulum.
Pendulums must swing freely.
First you can try to run your clock manually by removing the pendulum and letting the pendulum hanger swing away until the pressure is off the mainspring.
What causes a pendulum clock to stop.
However the pendulum will stop eventually.
Leveling your clock will need to be level from front to back and side to side.
Free the hands to restart the clock.
If a clock pendulum touches anything.
Just about all pendulum clocks are this way except for the 400 day clock or the atmos which are entirely different timepieces.
If you don t hear.
If the pendulum is touching the chime rods toward the back or touching the weights toward the front the pendulum will stop.
This only takes a few minutes to readjust and all pendulum clock owners should learn how as this will happen eventually.
If the clock is now in beat meaning the tick and the tock are evenly spaced but then the clock stops after awhile what now.
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A clock that leans to the left or right at the slightest angle will throw your pendulum into pandemonium or stop it in its daily tracks for tracking good time.
Because pendulum motion is so precise and the swinging of the pendulum tends to last a long time unless interrupted pendulums are a classic mechanism for powering clocks without using electricity.
Pendulum arm about 20 long.
Put it back on the wall and the pendulum stops after a few minutes it just swings slower and slower until it stops.
Pendulum over swing if the bob on the pendulum hasn t first been immobilized or removed from the pendulum arm before the clock is moved the pendulum can over swing go past its normal arc and throw the clock out of beat then eventually the clock will stop.
If your clock keeps stopping it could be the space it rests on.