yes how you came about getting it would like to know how you killed both acquiring the clock well i've been going around the state for some years now almost twenty and taking in maine was decided to be a good project since nobody knew how many there were and it was thought maybe there were thirty five or so still existing from old times then even at that there was some that were overlooked for a while and that was one of the things that got me going about the state taking pictures climbing towers and finding out where the ones were that one man in the one had and information that wasn't quite right easy to have these things happen when you're checking up on the other thing that many years old maybe a hundred years or more and so that was fun for me and over the years i've been working at it still am and i hope to make a sequel to the one nine hundred seventy six cen of updated and corrected and whatever else needs to be done to make it current one clock has moved out of state and went to florida another one has come into the i guess you'd call it tour at coney high school checking out the clock there that was one that was missed in the high school building on the circle as one one dial and has a history of its own but i was talking clocks with the gentleman that gave us the tour up to the clock movement and  he said i know where there's a clock and it was in the basement of the old nash school in augusta i decided i had to see it so we arranged a time to go and look at it and i was after a period of use probably twenty five thirty maybe more years but not a great many i gather from the appearance of of the clock and found that it was owned by the state at that point because they had bought the building and everything in it so the next move was to find out about acquiring it and of course  such things go first to towns or educational facility well first of the towns first to the departments of the state i think at the museum so i waited to hear what the verdict would be i guess you might call the prosecutors and the museum decided it wasn't something they could use at least at that time and then  the next step would be towns or cities or educational institutions i guess following the towns of cities and i figured that it would be a great thing for which to have a town clock so i  applied for the town clock town to receive it as a town clock this had to be done through pulley had long gone and the legs had been taken from the movement itself their special because they have to be very careful our clock will begin to rock if the pendulum so that was one of my long jobs the restoration was to get those who did the original ones are on it today well and they have had a lot of weathering on the face of them always a protected area and resting find out is his smoother and and less weather worn then the the outside  the one facing whether it's quite surprising how much the weather will will heat away the change of wood whatever's exposed to the and so i brought the thing home and i started putting it together oh not putting it together cleaning it and and restoring it same color paint that was on it originally oiling and working with it until it was already direct well i did run and i ran and in my shop because it didn't have the hands on because there were no dials and no place to put the have much trouble finding some of the pads that were missing that you had to replace well i mean most of the later we replaced had to replace the police they're presently scarce and  have had to get in the beginning and also a little bit had to pay for so we got those and i had to have a weight me because the demand today is for a self wind and although that's not have slightly foolproof or anything you do have to have people  just moving around and the reason mainly for them is to keep them so that the automatic switches will be tripped when the weights fall signaling wind me and it they the lower unit will kick in then and wind until it goes to the switch beyond the shut off switch which will do the same thing if necessary hopefully never will be and that won't protect the clock from damage clock house was through a trap door which had to be made in this roof that we manufactured in the in the firehouse to stand in with the whole clock so space around the clock is not might not know much well this new thing like thirty feet up and once you get to actually get up in there how much room is up in there with all the well the clock house is roughly interference would be the three drives go out just about head high so that is good just go crackers but they go to their motion works which is actually the center of the dials and of course the last different difference in elevation which would be taken care of by universal joints is it's better not to have any if you can help it so it was designed to be straight out from the car and whatever variations do occur will be handled by universal joint and also there is a  device to take care of expansion and contraction which will be bound to happen when the hot summer days make it like an oven in the clock house in the cold winter days when the breeze down the lake will put it down mentoring here i think to include me in some of the things that are necessary to do to keep things going well and i intend to do that as soon as possible and there's a few things to finish in the clock house more like accessories trap door counterweight and things like that it would be much more convenient than the present sit the first people who were really interested it seemed with the grange folks and they had some baked beans suppers and things and raised the most money  in one group that was received later on and also it was publicized and people gave direct donation listen to me and father kept the encouragement going down yes so you want to explain a couple of these here would you want to well we have some pictures here that we can talk about  this one is the base of the clock house as i've labeled it we made the floor of the clock house to become an insulated ceiling for  since the old roof had to be removed and this was this was built in the firehouse thanks to the generosity of the fire chief and his willingness to help us out and the clock house was built with sides that will become the dials i think that this  view of the first step in installing the movement right in the middle of the clock house for benefit of the straight drives to the dials and the dials were made up with swinging circular lines to get the minute max in the right place and the numerals in the right places would look temporary because we had to get three dials made up with all the numerals and this was accomplished square in the dial is an access door to be able to later on to work with the hands if necessary get them set in the right positions and see where they were without too much dependency on someone with ladders and and the ability to get out there and work outside the tower which is not easy with some new crew this is some of the crew is removing clock house out of the fire house the roof of course couldn't go on because there was no room for the in the twentieth of november it was moved out and rolled around the qana we hoped we might get the entire roof on but unfortunately it had to be braff up in top all ends and kept all winter with only some of the roof structure holding up the top pollens the spring came and then the opportunity for the cranes to lift it up so we had  rush job getting the roof rafters on in the roof itself in the shingling and all the things it would be difficult up in the air there and you see here pictures of the crane work was done to swing it into place in the middle of much the here we have some entire inside views of the clock house with the clock movement this next one will show the clock wind down low and the weight guy with the switches the clock is just  and years ago as far as the mechanics of it and a good thing about it is the wind it could be completely removed if necessary  workable this is the completion of the lifting of the clock house and allowed us to go ahead with all the rest of the interior work  there is after it was set on the building and here we have the hands of been put on the clock is ready to run and that is staging that will eventually come down th and then we have a little neighborhood view of it historical society in the foreground in the clock house sticking up above it in the background and making an interesting picture of and and continued to say where's the clock when it wasn't in view and encouraging and when you were blessed by having enough money  arrange in the final days to take the step of going ahead with putting it up and completing the job and one of the great pleasures is and happiness to me is to have the clock function as well in doing seems to be well rainbow regulated affair had to