4 years to fix a wind up clock....10 days to fix a Rolex

[Stickyfinger]

Big Ben

What is wrong with a recording or a deaf bloke with a sledge & stopwatch ?

[Alucidnation]

[telecat]

Difference between a real bespoke movement and relative mass production.

Edited by telecat on Monday 21st August 14:23

[coopedup]

telecat said:

Difference between a real bespoke movement and relativly mass production.

[telecat]

[Buster73]

Three hundred bit of glass on each face to be removed and restored individually according to someone on the wireless in the car .

My Rolex has one , might have something to do with the time it'll take ...

[Hugo a Gogo]

that Big Ben job, they'll have to put a lot of hours in

[anonymous-user]

The bell is being silenced so as not to deafen the workers on the tower, it will still be used on special occasions, so the headlines about it being quiet for 4 years are bks.

[Stickyfinger]

jsf said:

The bell is being silenced so as not to deafen the workers on the tower, it will still be used on special occasions, so the headlines about it being quiet for 4 years are bks.

How do they do that if the clock is dismantled ?

[Shakermaker]

Stickyfinger said:

jsf said:

The bell is being silenced so as not to deafen the workers on the tower, it will still be used on special occasions, so the headlines about it being quiet for 4 years are bks.

How do they do that if the clock is dismantled ?

someone's got a Big Ben app on their iPad and one of those big Sonos wireless speakers connected up

[Laurel Green]

Stickyfinger said:

How do they do that if the clock is dismantled ?

I think the workings are OK, it's what's around the clock that needs fixing.

[valiant]

Should take the opportunity to make it digital.

80's Casio stylee.

[Shakermaker]

valiant said:

Should take the opportunity to make it digital.

80's Casio stylee.

Just like in Futurama -

[SantaBarbara]

Buster73 said:

Three hundred bit of glass on each face to be removed and restored individually according to someone on the wireless in the car .

My Rolex has one , might have something to do with the time it'll take ...

Kit is not even the largest clock face in England.

That honour falls to Liverpool as per usual

[Stickyfinger]

SantaBarbara said:

Kit is not even the largest clock face in England.

That honour falls to Liverpool as per usual

They always were more shouty

[Cold]

Laurel Green said:

Stickyfinger said:

How do they do that if the clock is dismantled ?

I think the workings are OK, it's what's around the clock that needs fixing.

They are taking advantage of the work on the stonework of the tower to do some maintenance of the clock. It's the tower that requires the immediate attention or the clock and the bells will be resting on a pile of rubble soon.
The chimes are being silenced to prevent hearing injury to the stonemasons and the mechanical gubbins are being overhauled in a "man-maths, while you're there" scenario. One clock face should always still be showing the correct time while the work is being carried out.

[anonymous-user]

Stickyfinger said:

jsf said:

The bell is being silenced so as not to deafen the workers on the tower, it will still be used on special occasions, so the headlines about it being quiet for 4 years are bks.

How do they do that if the clock is dismantled ?

Same as always, the big fk off hammer wallops it.

[ymwoods]

Stickyfinger said:

How do they do that if the clock is dismantled ?

the whole clock isn't being dismantled in terms of the operations, its being restored. They will just be effectively turning off the ringer to save their ears.

[Dogwatch]

I can understand that Big Ben itself could be a problem for those working on the tower, but the quarter bells??

[Foxeh]

Shakermaker said:

valiant said:

Should take the opportunity to make it digital.

80's Casio stylee.

Just like in Futurama -