Mastering Clock Adjustment: The Crutch Explained #shorts

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:01]What you got to do is you got to move the I still refer to this as the crutch.

[00:00:06]There's Some people call this the verge. I To me it's I refer to it as the crutch like on the I was working on the older clocks.

[00:00:15]And this is usually soldered onto the pallet up here which contacts the escapement gear.

[00:00:21]So, I still refer to this as the crutch, but you take the crutch and you can adjust it either way. You push on it.

[00:00:31]And you got to get it to go You got to find the perfect center for the for the pendulum so the tick and the tock are even. So, that's what that it does is it adjusts it and it puts the clock in the beat.

[00:00:43]And if it's not in beat, it won't keep good time.

[00:00:47]See right now, you hear it nothing. So, I got to keep moving this crutch until I start to hear a tick.

[00:00:59]See, it's way over here. You can hear that tick now.

[00:01:02]So, I got to move this thing all the way over this way.

[00:01:06]The crutch over all the way over.

[00:01:09]Now, I I went too far.

[00:01:11]Ease it back.

[00:01:20]Okay, I still got to go back this