Escapement

Ah. Those are bellows tops. And the shafts are the whistle chambers for the cuckoo. Hey I learn! The reason they were in separate pieces is that the actual bellows material had deteriorated to the point of fully separating from the shafts.  Might have been leather? Removed the shafts from the case. You can see the hole for the air from the bellows and the whistle hole below. OK decision time.  Get new bellows or replace the leather/paper and keep the existing bellows tops and base. Timesavers has replacement bellows  tops.  Here's an interesting tidbit. The bellows tops on this boy are not rectangular rather trapezoidal. The smarties on the NAWCC board say that means old. Tried heat and trimming the glue from the base to see if I could remove the bottom plate of the bellows. No luck. That is some old glue. I fear there's no way to put in new tops without me mashing the hell out of the shafts....

That I'd want to own, much less repair, a cuckoo clock. Welp... At a July estate sale at Pebble Beach I spy this: It's sitting in a cardboard box with several parts and assorted bits loosely jumbled on the bottom. The movement looks ok and the case seems largely intact (albeit in some pieces) but there are parts here that well... I know bupkis from cuckoo's. What are those red things? I debated it and decided to do some research before deciding to buy. I have no idea what the thing is worth or what it will take to repair it. Boy there are a lot of cuckoo's out there and there's not a lot of definitive info immediately available. I came back the next day and bit the bullet, paid half price (whatever that means). Oh and nice place there in Pebble. The house is on the 17th hole. Zowee! Here are some of the pieces in the box: OK I get most of these but those red things I assume are supposed to be attached to the other red things. There w...