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Expert: - 4/2/2008


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One Day Musical Cuckoo
I sure hope you can help.  I have a great little One Day Musical Cuckoo with a Thorens music box installed on top of the movement.  The three chains were off when I received it.  I was successful in reinserting two but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to reinsert the music box chain properly.  When you look inside at the top there are three silver wheels.  One close to the music box, one next to that and than another over on the other side.  I am assuming that the chain must go from the far right side hole if looking from the back up through the bottom, to the top, around these three wheels (somehow), and catching the lever for the door (somehow) and than coming down the other side and out the bottom.  If I do not have you totally confused - CAN YOU HELP ME??? Please?  Even sending me to a site or telling me where I can find a diagram to follow would be so helpful.  I have included a pic of the general look of the clock but my camera is unavailable and I have no pics of the inside.  Hopefully you may have seen this style before? I thank you sincerely for any help!!!  Mark

Answer

if the music man comes out by swinging down from above the doorway top-- then it looks like the attached photo and the chain goes over the only chain wheel sprocket there is (black). The lever for the door is a L shaped wire that follows a big cam next to the chain sprocket(door open when the wire rides the cam and door shuts when the wire fall into the big notch on the cam.

feed the ring end of the chain (opposite end from the hook)(remove the ring) thru the hole in the bottom of the clock (upside down for this) to the side of the ratchet wheel that will click when you push it- get the chain just caught then right the clock and keep feeding the chain over the wheel till it comes out the bottom and put the ring back on.



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