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Art,
You have my sympathy, it must be very demoralising to see so much work lying in a tangled heap at your feet. I'm sure we all appreciate your efforts to get this valuable archive back up and running.

Kit

Obviously after posting the above the search box is now right where it should be!

I see that a search for my old posts will bring up a list of results but a click on the subject then brings up a 'not available' message. A very poorly forum indeed. I have a new clock to show off but am not sure ...

Sorry to hear you've had so much trouble recently, I haven't been here for a few months.

The search function appears to have disappeared. Is that normal at present?

Kit

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 ...