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Open the cardpoard box
Open the cardboard box by cutting the adhesive tape from one end to the
other with a knife or scissors.
Take care not to cut too deeply to not damage the parts inside.
Opening the box with a knife, scissors, etc. might be hazardous to your
health if you cut yourself.
The cardboard edges of the box's lid may be very sharp, so that there exists
a possibility of cutting yourself, also. |
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Remove paper
Carefully remove the paper in order not to damage the more delicate wooden
pieces of the clock. |
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Take clock out of the box
Take out the clock by the roof not by the carvings or figurines.
Mind the two sharp metal holders on the front of the roof as not to pierce
or cut yourself (only traditional carved cuckoo clocks).
You may take clocks without carvings by the bottom panel.
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Parts Wine Leaf Clocks
Before you throw away the wrapping material, make sure that you have all the
necessary pieces.
(1) Carved top piece with oak/wine leaves
(2) Pendulum
(3) Weights (clocks with music have 3, clocks without music have 2 weights) |
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Parts Hunting Scenes (Clocks with Deer Head)
(1) Carved top piece with oak leaves
(2) Dear head; attached to the back of the lower carvings with a rubber band
(only hunting scenes)
(3) Antlers (only hunting scenes)
(4) Pendulum
(5) Weights (clocks with music have 3, clocks without music have 2 weights) |
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Parts Farm Houses (Chalets)
(1) Pendulum
(2) Weights (clocks with music have 3, clocks without music have 2 weights) |
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Open back lid
Put paper or a cloth on a table to make the surface soft. Put the clock face
down on the softened ground.
Push up the small bolt that sets free the back lid.
Take a screwdriver and put it in the small square hole on the top end of the
lid (next to the bolt) and pull open the lid.
Do not put a screwdriver or like things in any other hole of the back wall.
You may damage the clockwork, chimes, wires, etc. |
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Pull out chime paper
Pull out the paper that you find wrapped around the chimes on the inner side
of the back lid.
Then put the back lid to the side.Attention: The
gong may not be crooked! |
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Pull out bellow clamps
Pull out the clamps that stick around the belows.
You will have 2 clamps with every models despite "8 TMT's" (8-day cuckoo
clocks with music).
With the latter you only have one large clamp.
Close the back lid and move down the small bolt.
Keep the clamps, chimes' paper, and the cardboard box in a safe place
for possible transportation. |
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Pull out bellow clamps on 8TMT clocks
There is only one clamp on 8TMT clocks. |
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Put screw in the wall
Mark the place where you want to put the clock with a pencil at a height at
least 6 ft.
Put a large screw in an upward angle into the wall at the mark and let it
stick out of the wall for about an inch.
If you have other than wooden walls you had better use a drill and a rawl
plug or dowl to fix the screw.
Do not use nails as they might not be strong enough to hold the clock when
you wind it.Put the clock on the wall by placing the end of the screw in
the top round hole on the back of the clock.
Take care to hang up the clock straight. |
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Open clock door
Push up the bolt that blocks the cuckoo-door. |
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How to screew deer head on
Take the deer head and screw it to the top carved piece from the back side. |
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How to put antlers on
Take the antlers and stick them onto the deer head. (Only clocks with
hunting scenes). |
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How to put top part on
Take the top carved piece and make the two screws on its back side slide in
the screw holders on the front edge iof the roof.
If the top carved piece does not sit tightly in the holders, take it off and
slightly tighten the screws on the back side and then repeat the
aforementioned (Only traditional carved cuckoo clocks). |
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Open the chains
Carefully open the paper bag at the bottom of the clock that holds the
weight chains. Let them slowly run down to the floor.
Very carefully remove any knots in the chains.
Attention: Do not remove the clock from the wall when adjusting the chains
otherwise the chains might come of the turning gears inside the clock.
The chains should be already pulled up so that the hooks are all the way
up to the bottom of the house.
If they are not, carefully pull them up while the clock hangs on the wall. |
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How to hook the pendulum in
Take the pendulum and put the top hook into the hanger wire which you find
in the slit in the clock's bottom panel. |
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How to put the weights on
Take the weights and hang them in the hooks of the chains. |
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Setting the time
Silence the clock (see Night off). Set the clock to the exact time by moving
the minute (long) hand. Push down or pull silencing handle to make cuckoo
call and music play.Attention: Never move the
hour (shorter) hand! |
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Starting the pendulum
Slightly push the pendulum to the left or right that it starts swining and
you hear the clicking sound is even to both sides. If it is not, slightly
move the bottom of the clock to the left or right until the clicking sound
is even. |
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Adjust the speed of the clock
If the clock runs too fast, take off the pendulum and slightly move down the
leaf/shield. hang back the pendulum and try the clock. If it still runs too
fast, repeat the aforementioned.
If the clock runs too slowly, take off the pendulum and slightly move up the
leaf/shield. Hang in the pendulum and try the clock. if it till runs too
slowly, repeat the step.
Please be patient! |
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Winding the clock
You wind 1-day cuckoo clocks by just pulling the chains at the end where
there is the ring until the hooks with the weights on are all the way up to
the bottom panel of the clock.You wind 8-day cuckoo clocks basically in
the same way. You might just want to lift the weight with one hand while you
pull the chain with the other.
You do not need to let the weights go down all the way. You can wind it
whenever you like. |
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Switch off sound (Night off)
Each cuckoo clock (despite models 80/1 and 1/4) has a handle to keep the
clock silent. The handle is either at the bottom of the clock or at its left
side when hanging on the wall.
To silence the clock you have to push the handle up/in. To listen to the
sound again you have to pull the handle or push ist down. Do not move the
silencing handle while the cuckoo calls or the music plays. |
