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Wooden Gear Clock Plans (lisaboyer.com)
46 points by Tomte on July 3, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments


Not wood but, if you're interested in building clocks/machining/etc check out Clickspring on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA/vid...

The production and content of the videos are pretty amazing.


This is great. Just watched the first in the clocking making series and loved it. Now I feel like being his apprentice. Thanks for posting.


I would be interested to know if gears can drive eachother in a circular way. Thus, for example: gear A drives gear B drives gear C drives gear A.


Sure, in three dimensions three gears can turn together [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mf0JpTI_gg


You can, as long as the gear ratios are all compatible (you can't have any gear being driven at two different speeds or they'll lock). You also have to have an even number of gears or they'll lock (because you'll be turning in opposite directions).


You can get free ones too, although I can't immediately find any true OSHW wooden clocks:

http://www.woodenclocks.co.uk/

http://garysclocks.sawdustcorner.com/downloads.html


I bought plans for the Simplicity clock a while back but have yet to pull out my scroll saw and dig in. It's a lot of fine detail work and slight mistakes can cause the gears to lock up. But definitely one of the cooler projects for a scroll saw.


What about laser cutting the wood? I'm making a gear clock driven by stepper motors that shows the weather and while I'm handy enough with a scroll saw that I could could probably cut the parts, I went with laser cutting the wood instead.

The other nice thing about the laser cutter is that you can engrave the number/lettering directly onto the parts, though the downside is that the edges will be much darker from the laser burns.


People laser-cut those clock designs out of wood at TechShop all the time. It's really easy, and almost a cliche.

I tried cutting a clock escapement from a wood clock design out of steel plate with a CNC plasma cutter. But TechShop's old plasma cutter wasn't precise enough for that. I could probably do it with their water jet. But after building too many heavy steampunk objects, and lugging them to conventions, I'm sort of over that.


That's nothing -- paper clock, anyone?

http://madmodder.net/index.php?topic=1966.0


yet another source of software for esoteric gear design http://www.gearotic.com/


The subject of interesting gear designs is cool but this is just a link to a store, it's not very informative.




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