How to Install Hour and Minute Clock Hands

Installing Clock Hands can be easy with these Guidelines

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Basically there are two common movements that have different hour and minute hands mounting holes.

Press on movements are what's used typically in high production
factories. Both the hands simply press on. The hour hand first and the minute hand second.

The mounting holes are both round. The majority of the movements we sell are what is called the American I Shaft movement.

The American I Shaft is held in place down here with a hex nut
and washer. Once again the hour hand is a press on but in an I shaft movement the minute hand is not a press on.

The I shaft has two flat sides that are match up to the flat sides on the clock's minute hand.

Aligning the two flat sides and then securing the minute hand with a small nut is much more secure especially when people go from the front of the clock move the hands to change the time.

This way it's really hard to knock off the minute hand. If you look closely at the press on hour and minute hands you'll see the round holes we discussed.

If you look at the American I shaft hands you see that the minute hand is oblong with two flat sides that's the key difference.

That's why it's so important for you to select hands when you buy a movement from us. In most cases were gonna include a choice of hands.

Please see our hour and minute hands at:

For example on these mini quartz movements you have your choice of forty five different pairs of hands let's make that ninety. The 45 are available in either brass or black and there's a infinite number of sizes available possible because it's so easy to trim these hands.

So always when ordering a movement from us and we include choice
hands please take us up on it.

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[CrossCultural-cf]

I think the title of the video is misleading. It doesn’t *teach* how to install the hour & minute hand. Instead, the presenter talks about the I-shaped opening of the minute hand as being a distinction. But with the movement I just purchased from you, in what order do I install the hands and where in the installation sequence do the 2 nuts provided in the hardware belong?

[strings]

OK, what part of this video taught me "How to Install Hour and Minute Clock Hands"?

[TheVagolfer]

Mike, you should be in radio....Great voice !

[sanchezjl]

So my husband recently passed away and we were given a nice wall clock he made in high school and it no longer runs so I'm hoping that I can attach the current hour and minute hands on to a new motor.

[George-kxcl]

What part of this was meant to teach me how to do it?

[debbiemcnaughton]

What happened to the instructions for installing????

[rondie.x]

I have the oblong minute hand, it flops around mo matter how tight I get the nut. Am I missing a washer?

[kisubikabenonbenk]

Sorry i come in a bit late, how do i change from the common clock to the American....i want to change small to big clocks.

[mukkarmalki]

My hour hand was loose...I tried to fix it from YouTube clips n now my minute hand nt moving of my wall clock 😢

[rhshel]

what is the thread size of the mounting nut? is it 7mm x .75 pitch?

[damionsmith]

what kind of glue can I put on the back to stop the clock mechanism from rotating?

[chuckfischer]

I want to make a clock, just don't have the time.

[SandyBrown-vv]

Didn't explain how to install hands

[escortxlr]

Or go to ebay and purchase an entire new setup with hands, for about 6$. Easy as that. Over 1, 000 listings when I checked, and bought mine.

[emilyrivera-lopez]

WTH was that??? Not instructions thats for sure!! Wasting my time is what it was!!!