Sleeving clock hands

They aren't going to be taking any weight. Just fill the hole with silicon sealer/RTV, plonk them in the right position and wait for it to dry. If you need to get them off again it's only soft silicone you have to deal with. You can also buy packs of assorted hands in the 'project' shops like Maplins.

New hands. They're mostly cheap and there are many on-line suppliers.

Thanks guys - it might have to be a pack of hands !

RTV was good suggestion ... but then the thinking goes on and realises that all that will happen is that the RTV will glue the hour and minute hand drive shafts together. Rob

I'm going to

Thanks guys - it might have to be a pack of hands !

RTV was good suggestion ... but then the thinking goes on and realises that all that will happen is that the RTV will glue the hour and minute hand drive shafts together. Rob

You could fill the gap between the shafts with grease first: but the operation would call for a steady hand: we are only talking half a millimetre after all.

Well the first thing is that having taken the old mechanism out, mounted the new one, found a way to hold the hands on and got it running, I decided to put a battery in the old one just out of mischief - and of course after all the faff, it ran OK, and still is

Solution I used for the hands was to cut a narrow strip of Al foil sticky tape and wind it round the shaft. Little fiddly but worked.

By the way I'm putting up a thread called "Spectacles" which was applicable here.

Rob