Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Printing clock plans using PDF and DXF files

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If you are going to cut out the gears and the other components for the clocks using a Scrollsaw or a Bandsaw you are going to need a 1:1 s...
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Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Simple Pendulum

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The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens is credited with first suggesting the use of a pendulum in a clock to regulate its movement. Pen...
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Thursday, 13 February 2014

Designing a new Gravity escapement

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History The accuracy of a clock is dependant upon rate at which the pendulum swings and this can be adversely affected by friction at the...
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Thursday, 21 February 2013

Gear design software

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Following from the last post the following list of sites offer Gear profile generators to create the gears for you. http://woodgears.ca/...
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Gear Train design for the wooden clock

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The gears used in all of my clocks have geometry based on the standard gear profile formulae with some adjustment to the tooth profile t...
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Friday, 25 January 2013

Clock 15 - Latest developments

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The design of Clock 15 is now complete, with all the features incorporated. I have attached some renders of the model below to give a pr...
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Friday, 18 January 2013

Materials for Wooden Clocks

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I have been wondering for a while now what wood to use for the next clock that I build. I used Oak for the Clock 14 and was really quite dis...
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Friday, 11 January 2013

Woodenclocks new web posting

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This is to be the first of many postings  which  hopefully follow the development of the new clocks as they evolve  through  the design and ...
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