I have no idea, but felt it rude to not reply

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Originally posted by Tartanveggie:
I have no idea, but felt it rude to not reply

Oh, how nice!!

Some chains are long, some are short. It is all about the design and the style. You could shorten your chains if you want to.

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Originally posted by Mathematics:
Some chains are long, some are short. It is all about the design and the style. You could shorten your chains if you want to.

So it's a bit like hair then?

Perhaps someone in a jewellry shop could help you Totts, you know the ones that do watch repairs

When was your birthday?

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4...koo-clocks-work.html

Does any of this help.
Lots of links, you may arrive somewhere useful

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
Perhaps someone in a jewellry shop could help you Totts, you know the ones that do watch repairs

When was your birthday?

almost a month ago, but the company he bought it from cocked up the order and sent me out this hideous BAROMETER!!!! So its taken ages for it to arrive!

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Originally posted by Mathematics:
Some chains are long, some are short. It is all about the design and the style. You could shorten your chains if you want to.

Ooh, how do I do that? 2 of my kitties have got their beady eyes on the chains already! I have told them both they are not to touch it, but like the kids, they will probably take no notice!!

Awwww bless you, bless you, I wanted my nan's one like forever, finally she gave it to me.

Yipppeeeee!!


Took it down after 2 days cos it got on my wick.
Hope you enjoy yours tho.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4...koo-clocks-work.html

Does any of this help.
Lots of links, you may arrive somewhere useful

Thanks for that GJ Am going on it now!

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Originally posted by Tartanveggie:

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Originally posted by Mathematics:
Some chains are long, some are short. It is all about the design and the style. You could shorten your chains if you want to.

So it's a bit like hair then?

LOL
that reminds me of a Tressy I had as a kid,
You could stick this tool in her back and make her hair grow or shrink.
Lot easier than going to the hairdressers

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Originally posted by Sunnie:
Awwww bless you, bless you, I wanted my nan's one like forever, finally she gave it to me.

Yipppeeeee!!


Took it down after 2 days cos it got on my wick.
Hope you enjoy yours tho.

HAha SO funny! Made me laugh out loud!!! My daughters asked what Im laughing out!! The "getting on your wick" bitYou can silence the cuckoo on mine tho!

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:

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Originally posted by Tartanveggie:

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Originally posted by Mathematics:
Some chains are long, some are short. It is all about the design and the style. You could shorten your chains if you want to.

So it's a bit like hair then?

LOL
that reminds me of a Tressy I had as a kid,
You could stick this tool in her back and make her hair grow or shrink.
Lot easier than going to the hairdressers

My sis had one of those! I used to love the little dollies; Pippa Dolls?!

I remember Pippa too but never had one.

I had a look at that website Totts, it doesn't look like you can shorten the weights does it?

Ask at the jewellers to see - or phone the manufacturers.

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Sunnie:
Awwww bless you, bless you, I wanted my nan's one like forever, finally she gave it to me.

Yipppeeeee!!


Took it down after 2 days cos it got on my wick.
Hope you enjoy yours tho.

HAha SO funny! Made me laugh out loud!!! My daughters asked what Im laughing out!! The "getting on your wick" bitYou can silence the cuckoo on mine tho!

Glad it made you smile, all true though.

I remember they are used to help the clock keep time...about all i can remember lol

I have a cuckoo clock with long chains.
But i'ts just an ornament as I got fed up of it cuckooing. lol
I just wrapped the chain up and place them on top of the cuckoo as the cats would play with the chain.
If you shorten the chain you might be having to wind up all the time.

I love cuckoo clocks ......i bought my baby niece one in bright pink ....it's not a cuckoo though an elephant that trumets when it sounds the time!

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I love cuckoo clocks ......i bought my baby niece one in bright pink ....it's not a cuckoo though an elephant that trumets when it sounds the time!

Awwww sweet.

Is she old enough to say it's getting on her wick though, lol?

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Originally posted by Sunnie:

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I love cuckoo clocks ......i bought my baby niece one in bright pink ....it's not a cuckoo though an elephant that trumets when it sounds the time!

Awwww sweet.

Is she old enough to say it's getting on her wick though, lol?

No not yet! But it's a battery one and only trumpets during daylight hours - at night it goes to bye byes.

*** runs into thread, yanks LMS's chain, and runs out again ***

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Originally posted by WILDER X:
I have a cuckoo clock with long chains.
But i'ts just an ornament as I got fed up of it cuckooing. lol
I just wrapped the chain up and place them on top of the cuckoo as the cats would play with the chain.
If you shorten the chain you might be having to wind up all the time.

mmm, thought about doing that. I can just see them... they wont be able to resist the urge! its already caught my black cat's eye when it went off at 3 oclock!!

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:

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Originally posted by Sunnie:

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I love cuckoo clocks ......i bought my baby niece one in bright pink ....it's not a cuckoo though an elephant that trumets when it sounds the time!

Awwww sweet.

Is she old enough to say it's getting on her wick though, lol?

No not yet! But it's a battery one and only trumpets during daylight hours - at night it goes to bye byes.

That's good then.

We've had a white cuckoo clock for over 30 years and we love it. The chains won't touch the floor if you don't wind all the way. It will keep the chains away from the cats but you will need to wind 2 or 3 times a day. The weights come down and the chain goes up so when it needs winding the chains are right at the top and the weights are at the bottom. Hope that's clear, and I hope it doesn't get on your wick

The cats might leave the chains alone once they get used to it.
Or just spray some water on them when they touch the chains.

Mine was a pressie from switzerland.

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Originally posted by Soozy woo:
I love cuckoo clocks ......i bought my baby niece one in bright pink ....it's not a cuckoo though an elephant that trumets when it sounds the time!

Seen those ones on ebay, they do all sorts of animals dont they? Some cuckoo clocks are really ugly, but those are cute. Mines cute too. If you go to the "Danbury mint " website, type in "cuckoo clocks" and then go down to the "edelweiss" one, thats mine!!! Im sure you cant w8 to see it!!!!

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Originally posted by squiggle:
We've had a white cuckoo clock for over 30 years and we love it. The chains won't touch the floor if you don't wind all the way. It will keep the chains away from the cats but you will need to wind 2 or 3 times a day. The weights come down and the chain goes up so when it needs winding the chains are right at the top and the weights are at the bottom. Hope that's clear, and I hope it doesn't get on your wick

Oh, thanks Squiggle. I thought that was it, but it never said anything in the instructions. No wonder they tell you to hang it 6 and a half feet from the floor!!!. OMG! Ive just looked at it and the weights have come down a couple of inches already! How exactly do you wind them then?

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Originally posted by WILDER X:
The cats might leave the chains alone once they get used to it.
Or just spray some water on them when they touch the chains.

Mine was a pressie from switzerland.

My girl cat is still scared of anything that sprays, coz of when she was a kitten and we sprayed her with a water spray when she kept scratching up the wallpaper etc! She only has to hear the lid come off an aerosol and shes off hiding! Bless!

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by squiggle:
We've had a white cuckoo clock for over 30 years and we love it. The chains won't touch the floor if you don't wind all the way. It will keep the chains away from the cats but you will need to wind 2 or 3 times a day. The weights come down and the chain goes up so when it needs winding the chains are right at the top and the weights are at the bottom. Hope that's clear, and I hope it doesn't get on your wick

Oh, thanks Squiggle. I thought that was it, but it never said anything in the instructions. No wonder they tell you to hang it 6 and a half feet from the floor!!!. OMG! Ive just looked at it and the weights have come down a couple of inches already! How exactly do you wind them then?

You just grab the top of each chain, which has a little ring on it, and carefully and smoothly pull it and the weight goes up. If you don't pull the chain all the way down but just until the weight is about half and half with the chain they will both be out of the way of the floor.

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My girl cat is still scared of anything that sprays, coz of when she was a kitten and we sprayed her with a water spray when she kept scratching up the wallpaper etc! She only has to hear the lid come off an aerosol and shes off hiding! Bless!

Just let her hear the noise of the spray bottle and she will eventually know not to touch the clock chains.

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by squiggle:
We've had a white cuckoo clock for over 30 years and we love it. The chains won't touch the floor if you don't wind all the way. It will keep the chains away from the cats but you will need to wind 2 or 3 times a day. The weights come down and the chain goes up so when it needs winding the chains are right at the top and the weights are at the bottom. Hope that's clear, and I hope it doesn't get on your wick

Oh, thanks Squiggle. I thought that was it, but it never said anything in the instructions. No wonder they tell you to hang it 6 and a half feet from the floor!!!. OMG! Ive just looked at it and the weights have come down a couple of inches already! How exactly do you wind them then?

You just grab the top of each chain, which has a little ring on it, and carefully and smoothly pull it and the weight goes up. If you don't pull the chain all the way down but just until the weight is about half and half with the chain they will both be out of the way of the floor.

Thankyou So simple! Why dont they tell you that on the insructions? Perhaps Im just really thick! You should hear the language when im putting flatpack stuff together!!!!

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by squiggle:
We've had a white cuckoo clock for over 30 years and we love it. The chains won't touch the floor if you don't wind all the way. It will keep the chains away from the cats but you will need to wind 2 or 3 times a day. The weights come down and the chain goes up so when it needs winding the chains are right at the top and the weights are at the bottom. Hope that's clear, and I hope it doesn't get on your wick

Oh, thanks Squiggle. I thought that was it, but it never said anything in the instructions. No wonder they tell you to hang it 6 and a half feet from the floor!!!. OMG! Ive just looked at it and the weights have come down a couple of inches already! How exactly do you wind them then?

You just grab the top of each chain, which has a little ring on it, and carefully and smoothly pull it and the weight goes up. If you don't pull the chain all the way down but just until the weight is about half and half with the chain they will both be out of the way of the floor.

Thankyou So simple! Why dont they tell you that on the insructions? Perhaps Im just really thick! You should hear the language when im putting flatpack stuff together!!!!

The instructions for our cuckoo clock were translated from the Swiss. They are quite funny and I still have problems when trying to adjust the timing (faster or slower) of pushing up the little slider or pushing down. There again I am easily confused

Normally one of the chains is for the cuckoo and the other chain is for 'wind up'. My mum had a cuckoo clock and I loved it, got used to the cuckoo and didn't notice it. Sadly the poor cuckoo clock has now gone to clock heaven, due to my nephew swinging on it to see that it was attached to the wall securely enough!

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by squiggle:
We've had a white cuckoo clock for over 30 years and we love it. The chains won't touch the floor if you don't wind all the way. It will keep the chains away from the cats but you will need to wind 2 or 3 times a day. The weights come down and the chain goes up so when it needs winding the chains are right at the top and the weights are at the bottom. Hope that's clear, and I hope it doesn't get on your wick

Oh, thanks Squiggle. I thought that was it, but it never said anything in the instructions. No wonder they tell you to hang it 6 and a half feet from the floor!!!. OMG! Ive just looked at it and the weights have come down a couple of inches already! How exactly do you wind them then?

You just grab the top of each chain, which has a little ring on it, and carefully and smoothly pull it and the weight goes up. If you don't pull the chain all the way down but just until the weight is about half and half with the chain they will both be out of the way of the floor.

Thankyou So simple! Why dont they tell you that on the insructions? Perhaps Im just really thick! You should hear the language when im putting flatpack stuff together!!!!

The instructions for our cuckoo clock were translated from the Swiss. They are quite funny and I still have problems when trying to adjust the timing (faster or slower) of pushing up the little slider or pushing down. There again I am easily confused

Mine does need adjusting; Its saying 7.35, and its 7.15! Have to sort that out! My instructions were in 5 languages, but it was very funny "English"; kept using the words; "herewith" and "hereafter"!!!

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Originally posted by shar69:
Normally one of the chains is for the cuckoo and the other chain is for 'wind up'. My mum had a cuckoo clock and I loved it, got used to the cuckoo and didn't notice it. Sadly the poor cuckoo clock has now gone to clock heaven, due to my nephew swinging on it to see that it was attached to the wall securely enough!

Just hope my cats dont have the same idea!! Ive seen them looking it up and down already! They'll wait till Im out the little buggers! Like a few weeks back, my daughters b/f got me some lovely tulips (my fave flowers) for my birthday. A massive bouquet. I put them in a vase, they were fine all weekend, when we were all at home; Went to school/work Monday and came home to find they'd eaten them all!!!! Only the stalks were left! Anyone'd think I didnt feed them!

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
Perhaps someone in a jewellry shop could help you Totts, you know the ones that do watch repairs

When was your birthday?

almost a month ago, but the company he bought it from cocked up the order and sent me out this hideous BAROMETER!!!! So its taken ages for it to arrive!

Barometer!!

I've got one but it hasn't worked since the day we got it. How do you get a barometer to work?

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
Perhaps someone in a jewellry shop could help you Totts, you know the ones that do watch repairs

When was your birthday?

almost a month ago, but the company he bought it from cocked up the order and sent me out this hideous BAROMETER!!!! So its taken ages for it to arrive!

Barometer!!

I've got one but it hasn't worked since the day we got it. How do you get a barometer to work?

No idea, Im still working out the clock which keeps gaining time! It tells you to alter the pendulem which Ive done, but its still too fast

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
Perhaps someone in a jewellry shop could help you Totts, you know the ones that do watch repairs

When was your birthday?

almost a month ago, but the company he bought it from cocked up the order and sent me out this hideous BAROMETER!!!! So its taken ages for it to arrive!

Barometer!!

I've got one but it hasn't worked since the day we got it. How do you get a barometer to work?

No idea, Im still working out the clock which keeps gaining time! It tells you to alter the pendulem which Ive done, but its still too fast

Do not panic! Because they are clockwork, I know it sounds funny but that's what they are, they take a little bit of fine tuning. Keep adjusting, and if you see that its slowing then you're on the right track. It might even be down to a millimetre one way or the other in the end. Good luck.

PS I should add that you will just have to listen to it, when it cuckoos is it gaining slightly less fast than it did, or not.

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Originally posted by squiggle:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by jennywren:

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Originally posted by Little Miss Spurs:

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
Perhaps someone in a jewellry shop could help you Totts, you know the ones that do watch repairs

When was your birthday?

almost a month ago, but the company he bought it from cocked up the order and sent me out this hideous BAROMETER!!!! So its taken ages for it to arrive!

Barometer!!

I've got one but it hasn't worked since the day we got it. How do you get a barometer to work?

No idea, Im still working out the clock which keeps gaining time! It tells you to alter the pendulem which Ive done, but its still too fast

Do not panic! Because they are clockwork, I know it sounds funny but that's what they are, they take a little bit of fine tuning. Keep adjusting, and if you see that its slowing then you're on the right track. It might even be down to a millimetre one way or the other in the end. Good luck.

PS I should add that you will just have to listen to it, when it cuckoos is it gaining slightly less fast than it did, or not.

erm... not sure. Will have to keep an eye on it!