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kleinbl00  ·  1824 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Craft Fair v2.5 - February 14, 2020

Clayton Boyer has made dozens of wooden clock plans. They're pretty cool. I toy with the idea of something like that sometimes but the problem is? I hate woodworking. I hate bandsaws.

You could probably get it working no problem. The great thing about timekeepers is the wheels (gears) are ratio-based. Doesn't matter how the teeth are cut; if one of them has 60 and the other has 30, you will have a 2:1 speed reduction. You could probably stuff the teeth with candle wax, rotate it a bit, and see where the high spots are and file them without taking the thing apart.

This guy is an instagram friend of mine. Florian Schlumpf is not but I still dig his shit. I've been told, however, that this stuff is pure womanbane. Most clocks are.





ThurberMingus  ·  1824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The design he used didn't have a pretty movement like those plans, it was meant to go in a case.

The problem is a bit worse since he already took care of the high points sloppily. Now sometimes a short tooth will jump ahead half a step and jam it completely. So redrilling the axes slightly closer in and treating 90% of the teeth as tall would be a pain but might be the way to go.

kleinbl00  ·  1823 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ouch. Yeah, I'm not sure I'd take that on casually.