Church's Historic Clock Restored with WD-40
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•A church faced a £50,000 bill to fix its historic clock. Two guys did it with two cans of WD-40.
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Grimsby Minster faced a 50,000 bill to fix its historic clock which had been broken for 12 years .
The clock stopped running because of its age and its gears were “very dry” and “were not in the right alignment” The company working on Big Ben's restoration quoted \u00a350k to repair the clock.
Rick Haywood , 47 , and Jay Foley , 15 , were performing routine maintenance on the bells when they decided to give the clock a look.
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