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It states on the title that it is an Illustrated how to Guide. Does it have Illustrations yes it does. Is it a illustrated how to guide it is not. It doesn't tell you how to use the tools. Most of the tools are out dated. There is really nothing on repairing a clock at all in this book. What Little repairing that is mentioned is wrong or incomplete. It has a few Terminology. Again nothing for repairing a clock. This book is not for the beginner and if a beginner used this book he or she would be confused. On the back of the book It says The Secrets of Clock Repair Revealed. WHERE! I never found one Clock Repair. You also will notice on the back of the book that it says Harold C. Kelly was an expert. "Was" that is past tense. I wasted my money. This is really not a book it is has a lot of use less material. The title of this book is very misleading "Clock Repairing as a Hobby" To improve this book would be taking a complete clock. Tearing it down and put it back together. Showing how to use all the tools to take down the clock and put it together. I repeat this book in not for the beginner. This book was not published in 2007 it was published in 1972. Clocks and watches repairing amateurs manuals 1 tile was published 2007. Please check out Bibliograpy: The dates of the books he used. This book is out dated! P.S Check out the Magazines!Read full review
There is good all around information for the hobbiest or beginner. While there are too many different models of clocks to go into details on each one ever made, this book will give one a basic understanding of how one works and basically what to check. It is a good book to add to one's library and a good value.
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Very top level discussion. Not enough information for a beginner. Does not make me feel comfortable taking a clock apart.
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The book does not give any help into repairing a clock it just shows yo the basic guts, which you can see when you look at a clock
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this book with other books give me more nohow. this book will tell me more about one thing and a nuther book will tell me more about something else. I fine this is the same in all repair manuals
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