Colin Thorne's - Skeleton Timepiece

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Stilldrillin:
Good luck Chris! :thumbup:

David D

raynerd:
:( ... just spent 20 minutes writing this up then lost it hitting the refresh button!!

So here goes again.... perhaps shorted this time and more to the point!

After bolting the plates together yesterday I wanted to fit the locating pins so that the plates can be separated and realigned quickly and accurately. I was worried about doing this as the proceedure involved driving a taper pin through from the front face of the front plate and then polishing it out totally so that the plate/pin joint was invisible. I drilled a 1mm hole in three locations for the three pins:

My clockmakers broaches came today so I used this immediately tonight to cut a taper hole right through the front plate. A stub of 1mm was left on the top plate and using a stake the pin was hammered home. The pin was cut on the back plate to leave a 1mm stub. These are the pins in place:

The pins were hammered home from the front face so this now needed filing and then fine sanding to get a perfect finish so the pin was invisible. Hopefully this picture explains what I mean:

Perhaps I am getting over excited but I can`t believe that you can`t see a joint from the front plate yet I am left with three nice little stubs on the back side of the plate which locate perfectly with the back plate.

I then took the hole lot around to my brother-in-laws to cut the plates out with his band saw. This took about an hour to get them roughed out. I now need to file them and after an hour at this tonight, I have a feeling a good few hours are left on this job!! The clock in the picture is also the one I am attempting. Note that I have left in the bolts on little tabs which I`ll cut off when I have finished filing. To be honest, they are overkill and the locating pins with a small clamp would surfice but I`ll leave them for now and then cut the tabs off when I am nearer to finishing.

Thanks for looking...

Chris

dsquire:
Craynerd

Nice start on the clock. I can tell that your excited. Before you are finished you will be an expert filer. Next thing we know you will be looking for a filing machine. :lol: :lol:

:offtopic: Whenever I do up a post I either do it in notepad and bring it in with a copy and paste or else select the entire post and do Control C for copy. Too many times just when you least expect it, it heads out to never never land, never to be seen again. With me now its just habit to do that with every post because I hate typing things twice. :lol: :lol:

Cheers :beer:

Don

Jere:
Just wanted to say that it looks like an great start, I will definitely be following along.

Jere

Russel:
Wow, very nice job! Someday I hope to make a clock, so I'm following your thread with great enthusiasm.

Files can do amazing things in skilled hands. People forget that sometimes.

--- Quote from: craynerd on November 09, 2009, 06:26:48 PM ---:( ... just spent 20 minutes writing this up then lost it hitting the refresh button!!

So here goes again.... perhaps shorted this time and more to the point!
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I've done that more times than I care to remember. My solution is to write my longer posts out with a word processor and save frequently. When I am done writing the post, I copy and paste it into the reply dialog box.

Russ

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