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Antique Clock Restoration and Repair Services including:

• Grandfather clocks
• Long case clocks,
• Wall clocks,
• Mantle clocks,
• Clock movement repair and overhaul, wheel cutting,
• French movements,
• Fusee,
• Dial and Face painting and overhaul,
• Clock case restoration,
• Dutch Marquetry restoration

Antique Furniture Restoration and Conservation Services including:

• Regency furniture, Victorian furniture, Georgian furniture, Tudor furniture,
• Gilding and Carving,
• Cabinet work, chair, mirror, coffer, table
• French polishing, Stain removal,
• De- warping,
• Metal work, Brass plates remade,
• Lost wax casting,
• Period interiors

Antique Instrument Renovation and Repair Services including:

• Barometers,
• Scientific instruments,
• Barographs,
• Music boxes

Valuation services;

• We provide a thorough and comprehensive antique valuation service
• Auction house valuations,
• Police and insurance company valuations,
• Probate valuations

Help and antique restoration advice;

• Unsure if your antique can be renovated
• Don't know if it is worth conserving
• We would be happy to advise

Examplesof Antique Restoration undertaken on scientific items and other items of interest.

This page shows some recent before and after examples of our restoration undertaken on  antique scientific and items of interest.

We were asked recently to repair a whimshurst machine.

Below is a picture of this machine as you can see it is in a bit of a mess. We have been asked by the client to repair this machine in keeping with the period process, contemporary to the period of manufacture, also when it is restored for it to be in working condition.

These machines were used to create an electric charge by a process of electrostatic induction this one in particular dates from around 1890.

In a Wimshurst machine, the two insulated disks and their metal sectors rotate in opposite directions passing the crossed metal neutralizer bars and their brushes. An imbalance of charges is induced, amplified, and collected by two pairs of metal combs with points placed near the surfaces of each disk. These collectors are mounted on insulating supports and connected to the output terminals. The positive feedback increases the accumulating charges exponentially until the dielectric breakdown voltage of the air is reached and a spark jumps across the gap.

 

 

 

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