I’ve recently been working on this lovely bracket clock by James McCabe. It was brought to me because of a problem with the striking mechanism - when wound the clock would strike continuously until it ran out of power. There are a number of things that could cause this but it was agreed that the clock would also be serviced while it was in the workshop, as it was evident that there was a lot of very dark oil and wear which could be seen simply by looking at the backplate.