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8 day wooden gear clock
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:30 am
by drewman
My latest creation, an 8 day wooden gear clock with hour chime.
Just gotta love gearotic, I can concentrate on design and not have to get into the number crunching involved in what modulus to use etc when designing the gear train!
Thanks Art and Bob ;)
http://youtu.be/YOxQzlSRbdE
Re: 8 day wooden gear clock
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 4:14 am
by ArtF
Nice Job, love that long pendulum.
I think youll like some of the new toys Ill
be releaseing shortly.. :)
Art
Re: 8 day wooden gear clock
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:52 am
by BobL
Drewman;
Nice job.. Thanks for sharing your project with all of us to see and as Art mentioned you will most likely like some of the new toys added to Gearotic in our next release. Anyhow keep up the great work and most of all have fun doing it..
Cheers
Bob
:)
Re: 8 day wooden gear clock
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:02 pm
by drewman
Thanks guys, that pendulum is about 74in long!
Eager to see what you have in store for us :) but still my biggest wish is to have the option of rounded teeth rather than the square section, I get much less friction between the gears, at the moment I cut all the gears then sand free hand on a small belt sander by eye to round them. Actually quite accurate at it now.
Re: 8 day wooden gear clock
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:12 pm
by ArtF
Drew:
If you mean on the epi gears , the pinions are now rounded ousides and confirm to swiss clockmaker standards
as of next release. For normal spurs there is now a rack cutter radius which can help round roots valleys between teeth.
It wont be long before a major release, though still with a version limited in scope, but gorwing quickly.
Art
Re: 8 day wooden gear clock
Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:56 pm
by Ken_Shea
That is fantastic Drewman.
Re: 8 day wooden gear clock
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:01 am
by drewman
cheers ken :)