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Thanks Art,
I've even managed to persuade the 90 year old founder of the guild who once said "you just press a button and the machine does it all for you" that there might be a bit more to it than that.

In fact, I have you to thank for this clock. It's now several years since I went looking for a ...

The North West Wood-craft Guild, of which I am proud to be member is holding an exhibition at The Hive, Ulverstone, Tasmania over the next couple of months. This was the BUTBS I needed to finally get the hardwood version of my electric clock designed and built.

Having attended a course on steam ...

That's a nice example of the Sextus. It's a very hypnotic design to watch!

I was surprised at how much difference there is between ball and plain bearings. Soaking them in solvent to remove any manufacturer-installed grease apparently helps as well. At the speeds we run these bearings, grease and ...

Bob, Kirk,
Thank you both.

It's been running steadily for a few days now. One thing the new software does is allow me to run the clock from my laptop and get serial data via the USB port once per second to confirm the timing control is working as it should and quickly see any errors. This makes it ...

Thanks Art.
I'm pleased with the look of it and am hoping a hardwood version will work OK, the wheels are deliberately a rather bulky 12mm thick to minimise the possible distortion. I'd like to avoid having to make segmented wheels or use resin impregnation if I can. We will see.

I've also managed ...

Doesn't time fly...!
Here we are more than 2 years after the previous post and only now do I have a finished, final prototype of my electric clock. This project has been on and off the back burner more times than granny's kettle.

The world has changed somewhat in the interim. For me Covid has ...

I realise this thread is over a year old now, but I have a similar requirement for a nice, smooth-moving cam for an electro-mechanical clock design I'm working on. The option to easily design a cam including a smooth increase/decrease of acceleration which I can then copy out to my CNC router for ...

We've certainly had better years! Though this is the one in which I've retired, moved intertstate to the more temperate climate of Tasmania and recently begun setting up my new 6m x 6m workshop, so it's not all bad. Fingers (and toes ,ears, eyes and everything else you have more than one of) crossed ...

I'd love to know what you put in your morning tea Kirk  ;)

When I paid a visit to the UK back in February my only 'must see' location during a weekend in London was the Heath Robinson museum, which didn't exist last time I was north of the equator. Best known for his wonderful inventions he ...

Work and other domestic duties have been getting in the way of clock developments recently, though one of the main consumers of non-work time has been the previously predicted move of looms and other thread based activities out of the studio (aka 'shed') into the house.  Wife now has a very ...