Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast. <em>The Clock Repairer's Handbook</em> provides information on how to repair and maintain a clock's delicate mechanics and teaches the basics of clock repairing through detailed, easy-to-follow instructions and more than three hundred instructive diagrams and illustrations. Advice and directions for cleaning clock movements, pivoting and mounting, fixing train faults and gears, the importance of lubrication and friction, and how to make sure the strike and chimes work on the hour, every hour. <em>The Clock Repairer's Handbook</em> provides all the necessary information to troubleshoot any clock's problems and to make sure your clock continues to run in perfect order for generations to come.