There's a great series of videos from a clockmaker on youtube and his own site:
http://clickspring.weebly.com/ These are probably the best produced how-to videos I've seen on youtube on any subject. Highly recommended. Matt On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Bob Camp <kb...@n1k.org> wrote: > Hi > > In some ways this is like: > > I can buy tubes of paint and some brushes down at Hobby Lobby. > > That’s what I need to paint the next Mona Lisa. > > While that’s all quite true, it’s not the whole story :) > > There’s an enormous amount of training and experience that goes into > fitting this > sort of thing up. There is even a certain amount of “art” that goes beyond > simple training. > Not all watch/clock makers are up to this sort of thing. Highly skilled > people have been trying > to do this kind of clock for a *long* time ….It’s not just an assembly > process. > > Indeed I’d love to see the details of how they did the design. There are > some basic > challenges that they (obviously) addressed very well. Even with a good > description > of what they did and a pile of parts, you are still only (maybe) 10% of > the way to a duplicate. > > Note: I’m *not* claiming I am any good at clock making. I’ve simply seen a > lot of > this sort of work done over the years. > > Bob > > > On Apr 22, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Dan Kemppainen <d...@irtelemetrics.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > In all reality, achieving these results without decades of experience is > probably unlikely. That said, are the specific plans available or published > anywhere? Is is possible that someone willing to build and tinker could > make a 'functional' copy of this unit? > > > > I would guess that not all of the parts need extreme tolerances. But > even then many mills are holding positioning tolerances well under .001", > with tool deflections of .0001" or under (if run and maintained properly, > that is). My 'list' includes a mechanical clock build. And this one would > be a dandy to try to build! > > > > In any case, the clock is still interesting to read about! It's great > that some of you are lucky enough to get to see it! :) > > > > > > Dan > > > > > > On 4/21/2015 12:00 PM, time-nuts-requ...@febo.com wrote: > >> > >> You could always use the traditional method of piercing saw and files. > >> Thinking about it I suppose files were the original milling machine. Be > >> aware that the horological approach is different from the engineering > >> approach and there are numerous traps waiting for the unwary. Harrison > >> and Martin's clock B have remarkable performance but could still be > >> improved by using multiple pendulums to overcome the noise effects for > >> example a two pendulum clock is performing within 1 second in six months > >> (so far) so I will have to get the hacksaw out for the three pendulum > >> version - or is it back to the GPSDO. > >> > >> Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.