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Clean up, repair and get working a set of 'servants' bells/flags' from late 1890's/1900’s

robgRobG 07/15/2024 at 06:290 Comments

The 'before' photo: a very dusty tangle of wires, bells and woodwork. 

First step is to get the worst of the dust off with brushes and compressed air:

After polishing each set of contacts with some fine wet-and-dry, amazingly all seven sets of coils still work fine! Passing ~0.5A causes each hammer to waggle, which would strike the bells if I hadn't removed them for cleaning.

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