welcome to my channel again anyway today I'm gonna work on a cuckoo clock what I plan on doing is showing you how to set the gong on the clock now some of these have their little Goong arm bent out of the way some of them they just have the gong there and it's not hitting or it's hitting too hard and sounds terrible so let me take you through and show you how to set it up and how to make it sound nice so when it does go off it sounds great so anyway I'll use this clock as an example I don't have the weights on here right at the moment ish let you hear it but we'll do that in a second anyway you notice a hole it's usually in the backside of these clocks sometimes they're a lot bigger than that now inside here there should be let's take this off and show you first there's the mechanism that makes a gong work now I will admit what's odd about this one this hole is normally located so you can see this arm here and what that hole is actually for just so you put your screwdriver into this hole here and move the wire up and down just a little bit right here one way or another so the gong we'll hit the rod and not hit it so it makes this thing go hang it makes it sound nice and you can make it so just hits it so it's a nice light sound to it so anyway let's get started on a bed for an example and go ahead and turn my our hand up I have the weight on here and let's listen to it now you see that's about what it should sound like like I say you can make it so the Gong doesn't hit as hard or this here is actually nice so let's do some measurements in case yours doesn't work at all okay I do want you to understand this your video is for a homeowner or a class person I should say that only has probably one to two o'clock and you're trying to get things situated on your clock this isn't a scientific way but this is gonna get you the ballpark of where the bomber or the striking arm is hitting your bong on your cuckoo clock so let me show you what you can do to get started so here I just have a simple toothpick and that have an ink pin that might work don't know we'll see anyway what you're gonna do is you're gonna try to measure the center of your Gong arm here to know about where the height is and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna mark on my toothpick how high that is up from the board now from the board I'm gonna go by that little mark I put on here let me drop it just below this board here I'm looking for a measurement of that sort and I'm gonna mark them them the upper part of this here to give me an idea that's the thickness this here is the thickness of that piece of plywood that the gong is on so now I know that what I can do just take that last mark I made I've got this going across so down type I have this going across this here give me a second I'm messing up with that nailh there so that's pretty close so what now what I'm going to do is I'm going to drop this mark down below this plywood because once this plywood set down inside the frame that's gonna be actually your your measurement there's why I measure the distance of the plywood so from there I'll bring this over drop it down and right there is showing the center of this the striking arm and that's a good thing it tells me I don't need to adjust this arm up or down or anything it's ready and by the way this little striker on here let me try to get a closer view of that so you can see the striker arm all's it is is just a piece of metal with a hole in it and so that means you can turn it to adjust it to make it be striking flat on the gun part so if that's not straightened out either go ahead and get that turned and it's nice to have your wire here straight back and forth so next like I say you got your measurement you know that's into place so now I know this is the bottom because it has that cut in it so now what I need to do is try to get this thing once you have that measurement out and you have this straightened if it needs to be straight and pulled out try to get it closer using your toothpick marks there they are using your toothpick marks you get that so the marks are set to hit right into the center of the gong for the bow the rod anyway it's too early in the morning you know like I say this is the bottom and now what I need to do you can loosen this screw here if you have to which normally you'd want to loosen it just a little bit but you still want snug enough that it holds on to here so as soon as you get it where you think you need it doesn't just take off on you so what you do now you can do a measurement again go to the bottom of the clock let's make sure that the ink marks up there measure from the bottom of the clock is itself the floor of the clock and now mark with this striker hits so now I see it let me get it a little bit darker okay that shows you this is a floor of the clock and all the way up here right there's where the striker has a finish of a hit so you got to kind of watch here actually let's do this a little bit more different we do have right there's the bottom of the striker the floor of the clock is landing right here but we have this distance that we want to go ahead and add to this mark to hit the floor of the clock so right there is a floor distance so now we can set the toothpick here at the bottom come up and you can see where it's off just a little bit and that's what you want you don't want that hammer arm setting on the springs they'll still sound terrible so my spring or my arm is sitting just above here pretend this is a hammer it's sitting just above here and when it Gong's the hammer comes up and then comes down and it casts springs and hits that arm or the gong and if it goes clanging that means it's too close and you need to move this spring down so it doesn't hit so hard and what you can do is slowly bring these up have the cuckoo clock gone just let it gone once coz you'll hear what it sounds like and if it didn't hit it move it up a little bit closer to it if it's hitting it real hard pull the spring down and what's it you think you have it set right go ahead and let the gong this arm hit several times because once this gets hit it starts to vibrate per se because that's what's making the sound and there's a chance that is hitting too hard and it really starts going availing sound that's not good you just want a nice clean clean hit to this thing and you can make these so it just hits it so it's not as loud loud of a count or a Gong sound but you do want to hear this when the cuckoo birds going I'm not sure if I explained that right or sounds right to you play it again if you need to but like I say you can use a toothpick on these smaller clocks go get yourself a wooden Spain sticker or any kind of a stick to do your measurement if your clock is much bigger than this one now I do want to want to remind you check your clock out first with this hole here to see if this here lines up with it like it should be doing like I say why it's clear up here the hole and this bars right here on this clock I'm not sure but if it was lined up with this hole from the backside here you could take a screwdriver and just move it just a little bit then run the cuckoo time again and see what it sounds like if you did wrong you move back the other way and I'm some of my clocks this is about three quarters of an inch sized hole which is much easier to adjust the Gong sound that this is a smaller clock and like I say I wasn't gonna mess with this one just because it does have a good sound to it that's what you don't want here when that Gong is hitting so I'm gonna have to wait up and just gonna pull on it you listen to it [Applause] so this clock not gonna take back apart because it doesn't stop cuckooing easy fix sighs I'll be another video we'll see you guys later thanks for coming by you