Another ting that makes me wonder if the clock spring theory is correct is the size of the spring in some old clocks. They would have been an absolute bear to wind by hand.
In fact the more I think on it the more I like that theory.
My guess was some sort of locking device but a coil spring winder makes more sense to me now that I think about it.
Any tool meant for making curls should have some way of indexing it so that multiple coils would be identical. This thing does not appear to have any such thing.
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