I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...

My 25-year-old cuckoo clock hung on the dining room wall silent for over two years. Finally, this month, I decided to see if I could repair the clock to produce the comforting, hourly cuckoo whistle ...