How I Made This Huge Ugly Clock Look Like 1972 Again With Restor A Finish

ladies and gentlemen this is Joe's classic video games back with another amateur repair Time video for you this evening now if you like our arcade game jukebox pinball machines videos pinball repair videos and that's the only thing you're really interested in this video is not going to have anything to do with any of that this is only about this super ugly clock here we're going to be messing with this and trying to make it look a little better uh but first I got to tell you about it this thing is huge it's like 33 in tall so I'm leaning way back and you still can't see the whole thing look at this now I normally don't tell the clock this it might get uh uh you know some kind of uh uh complex about it but normally I wouldn't have even bought this the reason I bought it was was because uh a family friend Jean you may have seen him on some of our videos he he's approaching 90 years old now and uh he's a little bit of a collector uh he's gone too far with it you know what I'm saying I hate I don't want to say it I hate to say it but he's the type that he buys everything if he if he can tell what it is he buys it so he knows that I like clocks and stuff so you know I like I love old clocks look at this beautiful Old Clock up here right look at that one that we did a video on if you didn't see that go check it out and then I've got these look look at these ones here very cool you know nice nice little clocks and then he shows up with this so he he he showed up uh down in Jefferson when we were down there working and he said Ronnie I got you a clock I like oh cool let's go check it out now it's kind of Hit or Miss sometimes he'll have something really cool sometimes sometimes not quite as cool so in the back of his truck he had this beauty uh I have the face for it it was with it and the hands were with it and the key was with it uh the top glass is missing and the thing was filthy I mean filthy dirt all over it basically mud dobers Nest I know some of our viewers are uh from overseas I had somebody actually email and ask what a mud dobber was it's just like a hornet or a wasp it's that type of of um U insect and they build these these nests out of mud that'll be long and stringy they almost look like a pan flute or something uh and there was stuff like that all in it including on the movement right but he bought it and so if I did so basically he'll go to the flea market he paid like five bucks for this and then he brings it to me he wants to know if I'll give him 10 bucks for it stuff like that right and he's a family friend and like I said sometimes he finds this all kinds of cool stuff if you saw that video about all of the GameCube games that were all damaged that was from him too um so he bought this and to him he thinks well you know it's a clock right but to me I would think like man that thing's ugly as Sin and it's huge I don't even know where I'm going to put it but um so anyway I get it and I bring it home that was about 2 months ago and so I put it outside because the thing on the porch because the thing's covered in mud who knows what's going on with it now the only reason that I picked that I got it from them is because it has a couple interesting little things first of all there's no wood rot on it so nothing's rotten I don't know what kind of wood this is maybe some of you guys uh and girls can explain it to me what this is actually we're going to look at it closer here in a minute I'm just trying to give you the overall look as best I can but it's so big I can't even fit it in the screen um it's about 16 17 inches wide something like that big old freaking clock uh so I leave it sitting outside for a while but like I said the only reason I got it is because there's no rot on it the wood none of the wood is really damaged um and it has this kind of interesting effect on it look at the wood I don't know if that's a special type of wood or if it's just like cheap Pine that they kind of spray painted with black lines on it I'm thinking more of the later and the front of it the wood grain is so exposed that it's almost like its own thing you know and then there's areas where it almost looks like they put filler in it or maybe that's just where knots were or something I don't know so I think it's just it's really it's it's either just incredibly cheap wood um or it's really expensive wood it's one of the other I don't I I can't quite figure it out the back of it is obviously just Pine right so I don't know what we're working with here but it's kind of interesting how that grain is so exposed so we're going to we're going to attempt to make this look better now so I leave it sitting outside for about a month and then finally well you I got to bring this thing in the house or throw it away or do something and uh I look at it it's like I said it's in solid condition but it's filthy so I start cleaning it up the best I can and I I knocked the mud Dober nests out of it and clean that off here goes the other one the other one's jealous five six 7 8 9 10 that's correct it's 10 o00 so the uh uh I clean it up take the mud Dober nest out I uh wipe it down best I can you can see I didn't do a great job still kind of dirty but I I get all the cobwebs out of it I didn't find any insects there were some dead um things that looked like mud dobbers or wasps or something I cleaned all that out and the face was still on it so I took the hands off one of the hands is got the paint peing off of it and stuff I took the hands off and um took the face off the face has a little rust on it and stuff you'll see that here in a little bit and I get back to the movement the movement has a mud Dober thing on it there's some there's some mud or something on this movement right I'm trying to remember back cuz it was like a month ago so um you know a clock movement is kind of a particular thing it doesn't want mud on it so as you can see there's no mud on it anymore so I thought you know this thing's not worth a lot of money and if I take it apart I may not be able to get it back together because I don't I'm not really good at this like I said it's amateur repair time people so I thought let me try something different I've seen people talk about doing this this is not the way to do it okay but this is the way I did it because this is not a I don't believe this is a very collectible clock right I think this is you know a 70s model Korean clock is my guess we're going to try to figure it out here in a minute though um so I took the movement out I took it outside it had mud cobwebs dirt all over it I sprayed it down with are you ready for this carburetor cleaner yeah that's right I just sprayed it down with carburetor cleaner which is pretty strong stuff really I mean that is not uh an easy night for that thing so I sprayed it I sprayed the hell out of it with carburetor cleaner I did that until there was no more mud coming off of it because it was all gone and everything that was dripping off of it was clean so then I uh I dried it off the best I could remember I didn't disassemble it just did it all whole like I said that's not the way to do it that's the wrong way to do it but you know drastic measures most people are not cleaning clock movements that don't have much value with mud all over them right so and that's the other thing this thing does not have much value so don't I'm not trying to act like oh you know this is worth $300 it if we get this thing looking good you might get somebody to give you 40 or 50 bucks for it maybe if it looked really nice and if it works um so I took it I took it cleaned it all up dried it off the best I could then I I took a Oiler and I put just a little bit of oil on all of the pivots I brought it in I mounted it back in the case as you see so this is the case after I cleaned it preliminary cleaning people um and after I mounted it back in and I swung the pendulum and it started Tick tck Tick Tock right uh and then after about 10 minutes it stopped oh man so if you don't work on these that's typical like if something's worn or dirty or you got a problem that's what it's going to do right so I thought H maybe it just needs a little help so I swung the pendulum again it started tick tock tick tock right same thing after about 10 SEC after about 10 minutes it stopped again oh and I wound it up I've got the key and it's stopped again so thought well that one is going to need some work I'm going to have to completely disassemble the movement clean it all up see if I can figure out what's going on with it put it back together okay so I left it sitting there as it as it looks in all of its ugly glory and about a month went by and I I walked by it and I thought huh how long was that thing running for and I couldn't remember I was like would it would it uh move for I think it was like 10 minutes or something so was I walked by I did this okay and um I went and did some other stuff and I came back an hour later and it was still running so I thought huh well that's pretty wild so went and did some other things came back in a couple hours still running so after you know it's been three four hours of things tick tick talk I start seeing the hammer move let me see if I can see if I can get it to do it that may not be how you do it I ca remember it may not be wound up so anyway I see the hammer move and it goes D and it's the worst sounding chime you've ever heard if I could get it to do it I would yeah this poor thing wonder what time it'll tell us five six 7 [Music] 8 9 10 11 12 13 maybe I counted wrong okay I haven't heard it do 13 so anyway it hits it hits the chime one time and I went huh the whole thing's trying to work it's trying to it's trying to Christine itself and so I looked at the clock and it was like 10:38 I thought okay it just chimed one time at 10:38 so at 11:08 it chimed like 3 times huh that's pretty cool so 11:38 it chimed one time again and I'm thinking that damn thing's keeping time right so I uh went to bed next morning I get up I hear it over there D I look it's like you know 9:38 so at 38 past the hour every hour you're getting a chime and then at the top of the hour you're getting a different number of ches so couple days later I'm noticing that it is somehow it's 1 hour off now notice it's been stopped because it it finally ran its U it's uh wind out I haven't wound it so it's probably going to stop on us here in a minute um uh so the it it was it was always one hour behind so I watched it for about two days and it was just it would chime 8 after the hour and 38 after the after the hour and the chime would be one less than whatever hour it was so this thing is running so I guess the first time that I tried to to mess with it um I hadn't uh let it dry and again that's not the way you're supposed to do it I mean that thing is not supposed to uh get carburetor cleaner on it notice it has a nylon gear on the front and it has that nylon uh seashell on the front snail I think they call it nylon snail that's the hour that's what keeps the the time the I mean keeps the strike um you're not supposed to just spray them down but that's what I did and the thing is running so we're not going to mess with it I'm not going to take it back apart I am however going to unmount it because I want to see who made it so we can figure out what kind of clock this is I did not know they made clocks this big this ugly it's not it's I don't know if it's supposed to sit on the table hang on the wall but here's what we're going to do we're going to try to get it to look better I've got a few things I'm going to do to it and I'm going to try to see if we can do any kind of thing about all of this how horrible all this looks um so I've got like a finish restorer I'm going to attempt to see if we'll help that at all but uh first thing I'm going to do I'm going to remove the uh the movement so we can look at the backside of it see if we can find a maker's name on it now you you can see that the inside is still a little filthy it's a lot better than it was though and it's got a nice pendulum so part of this is I'm trying to figure out when it was made I'm just guessing by the look of it from the late 60s to the late 80s that would be my guess um so and here's a look at that wood I'm talking about now this is on the inside so if it is just some kind of paint technique you wouldn't think they'd do it on the inside where you can't see it so I don't know what that is that I mean it may actually be some kind of decent wood um and I don't understand the the grain thing oh look at that that might be a clue the door covers this but doesn't cover this and it almost looks like it's worse where it wasn't covered so that could just be like a weathered thing where it's just weathered that way but the color is just unique I think okay so the back like I said it's obviously just a piece of pine so I don't know I guess that's Pine tell me what you think okay so look at the back of the door I mean what's going on here and it looks like somebody has done some work on it if you could call it that I guess what we're doing since it's amateur repair time if I'm calling mine work we can call all theirs work like what are we looking at here why is it like that I just I don't get what that is I've heard of the word burlwood but I'm not I'm not I don't know what burlwood is so it kind of looks like maybe these were added so maybe originally it was just glued together right and then on the corners you have these which surely were added you wouldn't think from whatever Factory this thing came from but they would do that and so this is some kind of just putty right do you understand me calling it ugly a little better now so this piece of glass probably would have just been clear because the face has a bunch of stuff on it so you wouldn't need any decoration on that we're going to decorate this glass if we get it up and running and everything if we get this cabinet looking better um I've got some stencils for this glass maybe to make it look a little better okay so here is the movement and like I said I did not clean it properly obviously I just sprayed it down with carburetor cleaner there is a nylon gear and then this thing the snail the top of it is damaged so that's what the hour hand is going to sit on and then the minute hand will sit on this and then there's a nut on it right so let's look at the maker I think I remember now what I did I couldn't figure out about the maker okay so first of all the 45 cm and then 101.9 has to do with something with the drop how far how long the pendulum lead needs to be um for it to stay in beat or not in beat in time and it it appears to be in time even though I don't have the hands uh mounted because at 38 after it hits okay so then the 72 very well could be the date that it was manufactured cuz that lines up with what I'm thinking so maybe it was made in 1972 lose and then it says no zero Jewels made in West Germany unadjusted 151-20 so a lose movement 151-20 the the no zero Jewels they had to put that on these um when they exported them because they you were charged more for a a movement with jewels in it so the government would charge a different tariff or whatever okay so maybe 1972 so I'm going to see if I can find lose from what I I I was under the impression that lose was like a they didn't actually make movements that they they just put their brand on it so somebody else would have made this for them but lose was like a company where you could order parts and clock parts and stuff from so it could just be that this is a handmade uh case that somebody made um out of what who knows what and they ordered a lose movement out of a catalog or something and made their own little setup that would explain a little bit why it's so ugly my whole thing with the ugly is I don't know how you would sell this it's just so big you know that one's big but it's beautiful look at that thing I can and it was 100 years ago so I can see why somebody would buy that you hang that in a a a bank or something it looked cool you know but this maybe maybe it hung in a bank okay let me look up lose see if I can figure out any information and then we'll put it back in I am not taking it apart and cleaning it folks I'm not doing it we're not going to run it a lot I just I want to see it keep Tim for a little while um let me go see if I can find who made this or what the deal is with lose all right so the movement was made in 1972 and it's made by hermle uh the uh uh lose people were people that sold parts and basically herley would put whatever name you wanted on it right so the reason that they had those made was they sold movements through their cataloges and they also sold clock kits that you could buy with or without the movement so I found a scan of an old catalog that showed the movement but didn't show this particular clock kit um and the movement was about 30 [Music] bucks so I don't know how much the whole clock would have been or if this was one of those clock kits I would guess it probably was because that would explain why it's put together kind of wrong and it doesn't look like the factory would do that and etc etc so I looked I don't have a catalog from lose but I have a timesavers catalog and this company clock it get it clock kit um was one of the companies that bought lose out so this is from 2007 though and that's from 1972 so there's not going to be anything in here that looks anything like that but you can see the deal welcome to clock making look he's teaching his young grandson how to make a clock look how much fun they're having um so clock kit at least you know they're selling you they' here you've got a drawing showing how the whole thing's made and basically you're trying to make that kits are carefully designed and packed with everything needed to ensure quick and easy completion pre-cut wood pieces components battery glue sandpaper and Hardware yeah it says battery because they were making airs with movements with battery movements which by the way it looks like there is a an American company that makes battery movements I'm skeptical I don't I'm not so sure that they're making them in America but hey I didn't say that and that's not slander because I didn't tell you who the company was um let's see if they the mounting almost looks the same on that one uh let's see if they show a big ugly kit cabinet clock kits little mantle one this one these we want a big ugly one Waterberry Schoolhouse kit it's kind of cool really Mission mantle clock kit I've got an old Mission P we're going to do a video on eventually uh Deerborn regular regulator kit that's bigger 19 inch high this thing's like 33 Okay so see this one is 26 high and 14 wide that's almost there uh but this one of course has the big door create a a family hairloom heirloom create your family heirloom this is actually fairly similar but it's just smaller but it's the same idea so see how the top glass is clear and the bottom glass is painted I don't I'm not going to paint ours but I've got some little stencils to put on it if we can figure it out the kit as of 2007 was $400 uh and that is with a key wound movement so that's cool so $400 in 2007 one would probably be more like $600 now or something like that I won't make inflation jokes um so $600 to make a clock and that probably you know counting inflation this is probably it was probably about $600 whenever they made this one and so in 2007 here's a very nice one right very nice looking clock this kit they wanted $2,100 for oh here's one $2800 um so I think we're out of kits I don't know it's clock kit maybe the whole book is kits maybe it's still in here look look who I found it's Norm Abram look there he is again they had Norm working with them I'll bet Norm wasn't using the battery movements hm H I wonder if our dial would match one of them I think this company existed I don't that one's pretty similar I think I think this company existed uh before or ceramic over metal well wait a minute well we'll figure it out um I think this company existed before so their products aren't necessarily this is clock kit products aren't necessarily the ones that lose had they had their own products and when lose went under they just bought lose out okay all right so uh yeah premium cortex brand made in the USA doesn't it sound like it should be making some music like that all right okay so uh let's start working on it so I'm going to go get that restore stuff I've got and rub a little bit of it on it and see if it does any difference to the finish and hopefully I can make the whole thing look a little better and then we'll start putting it back together well folks I have always been a firm believer that whenever you're working on a something old like this that it kind of has to want to be repaired right so you can you can work on it all you want but if it don't want to be fixed it ain't going to get fixed right so I've got this product here you can buy this at Lowe's or Home [Music] Depot um I can't remember which one to be honest with I think it's said both actually Howard restora finish it's not stain it's like an oil or something that basically restores color to faded wood now wouldn't you say that this is faded wood right so surely this stuff would work on this right it ought to but if the if the clock doesn't want to be help you know there's nothing you can do but guess what it decided it wanted to come back to us this stuff is like miraculous i' put this in the same category as like a miracle drug like hydrogen peroxide or penicillin it's miraculous I mean it's like spam meat restore a finish all right here's the hands that were on it not great shape so uh I'm going to spray paint those and I've got it back in and I've got the the um got the pendulum on it let's see what we can uh let's see if it's going to hold up I'm going to go spray paint those uh so that they're ready for the face all right folks I went and had a piece of glass cut at Ace and uh I uh had it cut slightly smaller than I needed because I knew they probably wouldn't cut it right nothing wrong with Ace it's just anywhere you go they do that and so the guy made it a little bigger but it actually fits perfect so uh I'm going to uh see how I can fasten that in it looks like they glued it in last time so I'm going to they there you're supposed to use little pieces of wood to hold it in so I'm going to see if I can do that but the problem is if I hit it with a hammer I might break the glass so I might glue it myself so I got the glass in and cleaned up well that's a nice shot there right um I put some little popular wood blocks nailed in that was fun nailing that in right to hold the glass in place this bottom one they have glued in um but it's glued in pretty good I was going to just pop it out so we could put our little transfers on it but I think I'll just do it with it installed okay here is the face that was on it after I cleaned it I cleaned this whenever I brought it in about a month mon ago but it looks pretty good we're definitely in 1972 territory here people definitely without a doubt 1972 uh we have we have certainly dated it boy she sounds sick but she's working it's keeping time I but I don't long term I don't know if this is a great solution I don't know it looks much better than when I got it it looks much better than it did you know yesterday if you haven't can't tell a day has passed all right so here is our next little part of the project actually our final little part of the project and then we can move on to another project look what I bought so if you don't know anything about clocks now if you do know anything about clocks I can't believe you've watched this far because I'm sure I've broken every rule there is in the clock world but if you don't know about clocks they usually the glass on them will have some kind of decoration now like I was saying earlier this top one probably not because all the decoration is on the face so it'll look pretty good uh just being clear but this bottom one all you'll be able to see in it is the pendulum and all of this you know kind of ugly Pinewood behind it so usually they had some kind of decoration let me show you a few of them that I've got so some of them are simple like this one just says regulator and Sonia the a logo but notice on the clock there's nothing on the face okay and then um I've got a whole bunch of U ones over here that are like uh kitchen clocks I got all kinds of cool stuff displayed um by the way none of these really have much value so I hope I hope everybody understands that I'm just doing this because it's fun uh so here's a really old one and they all had just very ing designs so this is this one's lost some of its ink over the years but it's like a gold design and there's just you know stuff on the glass in front of the pendulum okay this one is particularly nice and notice how they've made it where it frames out the glass and then you see the glass and then there's some on this one up in the top because the uh bezel the DI was round this one's really strong got a [Music] bird right I got this one the other day we'll probably do a whole video on this one look how freaking beautiful this thing is look at that I'm thinking about1 1845 but this glass is likely a replacement it's just too nude too nice but it is believe it or not hand painted but I think it's the wrong one it may even be like a modern hand painted one but that's a beautiful clock we'll have to show on a video here's another one so these kitchen clocks in particular had this going on okay now let me show you a little cheap Depo clock from the 70s so even whenever they got a little newer they weren't as ornate but here this is just an empty case you can see where it had the this basically just you can see in front of the pendulum so we're going to do something similar to this to try to make ours look a little better so I bought some transfer these are just lines I thought maybe we put some lines around the edges but I don't know that might be too much I got a couple of those and then we've got the Greek look right that's pretty cool but again it might be a little too much and then ah here we are look at this so you you transfer these onto the glass we're going to try that now this one doesn't this left one kind of see the little curly cues and all there's little things coming off of it so that's similar I think this one slightly different look of course they're all similar you know this one this one that's actually the same one yeah so I got four different ones okay so I think this one looks like it matches it the best and I've got two of them in case I screw it up how to use the transfer sheets remove the treated backing paper and place image into position to be transferred using a blunt pointed pencil or burnisher burnish the image onto the surface don't rub too fast or too hard making sure the sheet doesn't move while burnishing after burnishing hold the sheet in place so it doesn't move while lifting carefully lift the plastic sheet from the surface If part of the image has not transferred replace the sheet and repeat burnishing oh Lord I can see how this is going to go to remove unwanted images or accidental transfers Place Scotch tape over the image and lift it off on surfaces where tape can't be applied use a crepe eraser or solvent after completing the image transfer place the treated backing sheet over the image and Reb burish again with the burnisher okay all right so do it and then do it again and if it's messed up do it again and don't call us if it messes up just do it again all righty so I think what I'll do is I'll cut that thing out and then I'll try to tape it in place where I think it's straight and in the center and we'll go from there all right so I put a couple pieces of tape to hold it in place I measured it all out to make sure it seems about as centered as I can get it and I've got this pin where the bottom of it's pretty round so I think that'll work my main problem is I don't know how I'm going to tell if it's working oh I can kind of see there's like like a black area or a darker area so maybe that's the area that everything's good okay it didn't work at all because I had it on backwards so I may have ruined it already but I got a second one but let's see oh yeah yeah it's doing different stuff now what do you think I messed up over here because it pulled loose but I think all in all that's probably going to work pretty good I mean I don't know if this is some of my best work you know but I'm learning that's why this is amateur repair time people amateur moves like this let's see if this sucker comes off without ruining it uhuh yeah see where I scratched where I scratched it before it's made a mess that could be cleaned up though I think but much better okay well I made the mistake of you scratching it you know on the wrong side so there's a little bit of that still on there but I got a lot of it off personally I think it looks pretty good what do you think it kind of It kind kind of lines up you know it really looks pretty good now I was thinking about the lines I don't know that I centered that and the pendulum's a little high um but remember I remade this um pendulum suspension hanger uh what do you call it so basically it had gotten pretty rough and then it snapped so I laid it down and I just happen to have some of those and I bent another one so this is the first one that I bent I didn't show you all that because I was you know I I don't really want to show people me doing stuff where I don't know what I'm doing and then other people might think that's a good way to do it you know I'm still learning here so the problem that this one had was it's really not the same it looks the same but it's not the same because this one is spring steel from here to here and this one is spring steel from here to to here so it doesn't quite move the same right so this one when I put it in it didn't hit the Verge right or the crutch the crutch was down here and so this stick way up past the crutch on this one the crutch was like right here so it just it made it act different so it did not like this one at all even though it was the correct length but I probably didn't get it the exact correct length so I'm going to have to adjust the the um the little nut on the bottom uh to make it faster or slower depending on what it's doing it looks a lot better though let me see if we can do a before and after so here's the before and here's how she looks now all right so if any of you know what kind of wood that is is that just Pine that they've done some kind of technique too or something or is that some kind of more exotic Uh Wood let me know but you know what maybe not permanently but I think this thing is earned a spot what do you think has it earned a spot I think maybe it's earned a spot all right folks boy it's a big one look at that thing but you know what I was saying it's ugly it looks a lot better now just needed a little cleaning a little uh little attention maybe I should lower it a little bit what do you think it's awful high up there so there you go look what a time it says it is I don't have this one going yet let's see somebody asked me what happens at uh whenever they're all wound up we're about to find out you know it's almost impossible to get them to chime at the exact same time all right folks leave your comments below let us know what you think so far I will see you on the next video hope you enjoyed it make sure to check out my brother Donnie the link to his video is down below um his channel it's called the my brother Donnie Channel if you haven't been over there I'm over there with them but we'll be back in a couple days with another arcade game pinball machine or jukebox repair video for you um but every once a while in the weekend we like to do uh something a little different very cool all right folks so I hope you enjoyed it we will see you next time