How To Fix Your Own Clock - Paperback

by Richard Hansen (Author)

"How To Fix Your Own Clock" gives simple answers to basic minor problems that can be easily corrected by most clock owners. This book is written for the typical mechanical clock owner who knows little about clocks - and who doesn't want to run up a repair bill if it can be helped. The book is in an easy to understand question and answer format, and comes from actual questions from the author's newspaper column. The author, Richard Hansen (a master clock repairman and owner of his own clock repair business for 15 years), knows that often, a clock may need little more than the correct set-up, or a minor adjustment to go from "dust collector" in your attic - to "treasured and accurate timepiece" in your living room He wrote this book so you can get your clock going - and keep it going - easily and inexpensively

Author Biography

Richard Hansen is an electrical engineer who graduated from Auburn University. He worked for years in California in the Silicon Valley as a design engineer. After taking night classes in clock repair, the hobby interest in clocks he had developed over the years grew to become a career change. Richard is a second generation clock person (his father owned 800 clocks at one time). Since changing careers, Richard has taught beginning and advanced clock repair in California, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut - to both amateurs and professional clock repairmen. For the last fifteen years, he has owned and operated a clock repair store in New York state.