Don't slam on the brakes!
When we last visited our DUFA tall case I was expounding on the action of the hammers for chiming. In particular I find the elaborate metal shapes of the levers most compelling. A quick review of that last post will probably help the reader understand the material presented below. A reminder that the two sets of hammers are bound to those two steel hammer arbors, each having an elbow-shaped lifting rod that are pushed up by their respective levers. In this photo I've removed the arbor mechanism and we're looking at it from a different angle. Certainly dirty but remarkably intact and with little wear. Working from the left we have each arbor's pivot then, moving along the arbor, the lifting rod elbows, then a brass locking ring that is screwed down to the arbor and then a fascinating mesh of two metal pieces and then the big brass outer plate that the two arbors share. It's those two meshing metal pieces, that I've never seen before, that have become something truly...