Craynerd builds Wilding's - Woodward's Gearless Clock

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BillTodd:

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Ah! TILT, I cant, because I've modified the original model to produce the later animation - Sorry :doh:

[edit] I've just upload my new animations page http://billtodd.dyndns.org/animations/index.html

what do you think ? I've a load of extra ones to add at some stage.

picclock:
@BillTodd

Excellent animation - a picture truly is worth a thousand words. Many Thanks.

What program did you use to create it ?

Best Regards

picclock

raynerd:
Disaster, the weight slipped tonight when winding and mucked up all the setup as well as bending a couple of pins on the pin wheel. Time to cry the night away .... :palm:

Once I`ve corrected it, the next thing on the list as a mod to the movement is a stop for the jockey weight so it won`t happen again. :med: :coffee:

Rob.Wilson:
Your doing some really fine /top class work there Chris :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

Rob

raynerd:
Well over 2 weeks since I updated and I can honestly say I`ve been working none stop on the clock with very little to show. The pin wheel had been damaged and some of the pins needed removing and resecuring in place which took a few evenings. I also have been doing a bit of work on the daisy wheel but nothing to show yet. However, I have made more progress on the weight setup shown below.

I`m doubling over the weights to give me a shorted pendulum drop per day. This requires two more pulleys making (shown in the second to last picture) and also a new jockey weight with a pully.

Here goes, sorry, too many photos really but I took them so may as well post them...

I took this piece of brass someone kindly donated to me a few weeks ago and turned it to a good finish.

I then cut a groove in the end:

I then took a piece of brass bar to make the end cap. I always always struggle making something a friction fit, I`m always either just too big or just too small. So this time I turned a little lip at the end and turned it down until the bar would "just" fit with a bit of pushing into the groove. I then backed out 2 thou and parted off a disk:

Used a bit of loctite and hammered it in place. Popped it back in the late and faced the end flush. You can`t see the joint!

I then made a screw on lid so that I can add lead weights as needed:

The hole in the lid is for a lever bar to screw the lid on and off, which is why the drill is in there... a good way to snap drills :D

I then made the pulley for on the top.

Made a screw for the pulley axle:

Then I made the pulley holder which I decided was too big, so the black mark is where I decided to chop it in half!

Looks much better down you think without the top piece??

WHAT AN IDIOT I AM!! The holder is kept whole so that the line can go around the pulley, up over a pulley on the main clock and back down and tie onto the centre of the top of the holder!!!

Can anyone see a fix around it?

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