Important Notice, the date of our next mart has been changed to October 6th.
Presidents Message,
Next meeting is October 6, 2024
We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down. So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in. Thank you for your help in this.
Opens at 9:00 for setup and mart. Mike Dempsey will be discussing Balance staff and hairspring replacement beginning at 10:00 during the mart. Educational talk at 11:00 by Amelia Osterud she will give a talk entitled “Chauncey Jerome vs PT Barnum: The Great Bankruptcy of 1856”. Cleanup at 12:00.
We also need a new secretary. The main job is just to put this newsletter together. Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.
We have some demonstrations planed for upcoming meetings as follows:
Oct – Balance staff and hairspring replacement (Dempsey)
Nov – Winding and Letting Down clock & watch mainsprings (Danno/Dempsey)
Jan – Resilver dials (White)
Thank you, Mike, for giving your PowerPoint talk on repivoting. Many ideas and methods were presented. Further demonstrating some of the techniques will follow later.
Craig White updated on his and Mike Dempsey Congreve Clock making. The large pieces are cut out and assembled. Feet were copied and cast/machined coping and old Congreve clock foot. Finials were purchased and drilled and tapped for fitting into assembly.
Many months were spent building models and drawings for construction. The drawings in the book left out a lot of dimensions. The plates, movement plates were cut on a CNC mill. Columns and movement posts were machined on a CNC lathe.
The Pritlaff four sided street clock spent many years in the Grand Avenue Mall in Milwaukee. It was packed away in storage and saved by the owner of the Pritlaff building. Jack Heisler restored the movement and got it going again in a hall located in the Pritlaff building around 8 years ago. Jack has passed on and Mike Dempsey and I are working on getting it going again. Will keep the chapter updated on progress.
A visit to the Halim Time and Glass Museum was suggested. They currently offer guided tours for $25 each for a minimum of 10 people. Web site is https://www.halimmuseum.org/. The museum is in Evanston IL 1.5 hours South of Milwaukee. They are open for the tours Mon-Friday 10-5
They have the largest remaining items of the Time Museum Clocks from Rockford IL. They have over 1100-time pieces on display including tower clocks, chronometers, automatons, pocket watches, and tall case clocks. Beautifully displayed and preserved. The collections are one of the finest in the world. Many amazing clocks in are displayed and we will have a knowledgeable tour guide to tell us all about them. The Museum also contains many displays on glass.
Email Craig White cswhite5@yahoo.com if interested and I will propose some dates if we can get 10 interested people.
Nov 17 – Craig White will make a presentation “Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock”. Meeting to be held in lower hall due to Packer Party in regular upper hall. We will meet in the lower hall whenever there is a Packer game at noon on Sunday of our meeting. The hall is much larger and we get it for the same price. That gives the hall plenty of time to set up the upper hall for a Packer Party.
We still need some volunteer for talks for 2025. Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.
Dates for 2025 are as follows:
Jan 12, 2025
March 9, 2025
May 18, 2025
September 7, 2025
Nov. 9, 2025
Free tables!! A free silent auction table will also be available.
Hope to see you all there.
Thanks,
Craig
