I’m reasonably handy around the house, but when it comes to delicate things, I’ve found that my attempts at repairs end up doubling (or more) the final repair cost! 
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I had one of these clocks myself and they can be very sensitive. When you need to move the clock to another place you first need to uncover it and remove the torsion pendulum as you call it. Otherwise the wire that it hangs from gets twisted and the clock doesn’t work right. When choosing a new spot for the clock, find a place that is level and someplace where it won’t be disturbed by daily activity. After you have chosen the spot, replace the pendulum. Check to see that it is level. If it is not, there should be levelers on the bottom where you can adjust it. You may need to temporarily remove the pendulum while adjusting it. When it is satisfactory, then restart the clock. If it still doesn’t work then you may need to take it to a clock repairman.
My brother-in-law is the type who writes the size of the wire, spring or replacement parts on the bottom of the clock as a reference for any future repairs. When he replaces the battery in my cheapo wristwatch he writes the date inside the watch as reference too.
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There’s simply no substitute for maintaining an adequate change log.
Now if we could just get Amazon to subscribe to that time-tested technique…
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ARGHHH YES!
My inventory management software gives me access to the changelogs and when I found how to access them I was giddy. From undoing mistakes to knowing who to yell at, there is no over-valuing complete and updated changelogs.
Many times I have wished for similar abilities on Amazon. Even just knowing when a change was made and which login made the change would be exceedingly useful.
I would bet real money that Amazon keeps detailed logs, and that they are locked away so deep somewhere that only a single lone sysadmin even knows how to find them. And only pulls them up at the request of the legal department.
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If you have been around long enough you may remember back in the better days of Amazon they actually sent out notices to sellers when ANY change was being made to an ASIN that we had ever sold or even just offered to sell.
That went away because it took too much manpower. I know some people do not agree, but it was remarkable how it seemed to coincide with the opening of the market and the flood of all the black hat operatives from some ‘offshore’ locations.
It might have been a convenient coincidence. /S 
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Yes, I remember that well. Usually didn’t matter, but sometimes it was critical.
BS. The explanation I heard from the mods was that “Nobody used that info”, despite dozens if not hundreds of replies that it was useful. And no manpower required; a bot that can tag a pricing violation based on a 50 year old list price is far more complicated than one to send an automated message to all listings on a page that is changed. (note that I’m not calling BS on you; but on Amazon and the myriad excuses they give for screwing us over).
Can’t say that I can call you wrong…
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I do remember, and I was pretty annoyed when they killed it.
I also remember the mods saying that they eliminated it because nobody used it, and like @Picks_by_Nisha I also found that explanation to be nonsense. An update when someone messes with the title or details page of my best selling ASIN? You better believe that was useful!
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If you’re thinking of my 083024 timeline-clarification SAS post (link), regarding the 2017 deprecation of ASIN Change/Merge Notifications, as evidence of disagreement with your ASTUTE connecting of the dots, please rest assured that I’ve always found the vast abundance of the available evidence to strongly support your position (shared by many of the vets) that said Notifications WERE in the main part discontinued not just because of the increased cost, but also - belated though that reaction was - inextricably wound-up in the ill-fated 2012 decision to throw open the U.S. Marketplace, in 2013, to 3P Sellers who couldn’t give a tinker’s damn about what passes for acceptable on These Hither Shores.
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I remember and appreciated those, I also felt they were a lot of work to go through every morning.
At the time we were a stocking distributor for a large supply company in our field. The thing that helped us is people would come in and change the title to “Box of Six” instead of the single unit that was on the catalog page. Being alerted was priceless.
These changes always resulted in a customer issue where “I only got one and should have been sent 6!” What a PITA. If we could catch it, and not get the catalog changed back at least we could take the unit out of stock.
Who knew at that time how small a problem it was. At least we got a heads up.
Today, with the hacking and hyjacking of catalog pages by sellers around the world it is a much bigger problem. You never find out until something does not “feel right” reduced sales, a long time product you offer locked out, stranded items in the FC’s, etc…
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Certainly not entirely (or even a little). I just have enough self awareness to realize that there are people who choose to disagree with me as a matter of policy. If I say it’s white, it is definitively NOT white as far as they are concerned.
Sort of like all my ‘fans’ that still defend RA and OA…
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I remember. And I miss those notices.
Their removal marks the begining of the decline of Amazon - or at least my recognition of it.
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