A Becker Strike Train Challenge

None of us like a mechanism that runs in our shop, but then starts to miss-behave when the customer sets it up. I just had such a situation with a 3 weight Becker Vienna regulator, circa 1901. The quarter strike worked fine, the weights went down at the same rate, no problems for a week on my test stand. Ship it off, and I hear that it is being erratic in counting the quarters, and hanging up periodically.

The first shot if the front of the mechanism - a pretty standard turn of the century Becker 3 weight.

When I worked on the mechanism initially I found that the two pieces of steel needed to be aligned at the tip to get everything working correctly. Unfortunately, as I learned, the small screw at the other end of the spring steel was not able to hole them in alignment.

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When I worked on the mechanism initially I found that the two pieces of steel needed to be aligned at the tip to get everything working correctly. Unfortunately, as I learned, the small screw at the other end of the spring steel was not able to hole them in alignment.

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