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Hand in Hand Mechanical Pendulum Clock

by A26 March 24, 2016 Like

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I ran across this hand-in-hand clock design
http://www.instructables.com/id/Hand-In-Hand-Skeleton-
Clock/, and I thought it would be more fun as a purely
mechanical mechanism. My model uses a 15 tooth,
 Graham-style escapement and a 480g drive weight. Shafts
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are 2mm save the two bottom
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pendulum is a 6mm aluminum tube that may be adjusted
Tags up and down in its mount. It has not stopped on me yet
when I've had it running, though accuracy is not the
greatest.
clock, Gear, gearbox, mechanical, time
Though it works very smoothly at present, the clock is still a
work in progress. It requires the following improvements:

The sprag clutch system that serves as

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Hand in Hand Mechanical Pendulum Clock
by A26 is licensed under the Creative Commons
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the drum is too stiff. I had to play
around with the sprag sizes to find
something that marginally works. Re-
sizing the wells in the inner drum
might allow for 4mm delrin spheres
which should improve performance.
The back frame ought to be
augmented. At present it must be
mounted to a board or held in place
with my hand (as in the pictures) in
order to function. Part of the problem
is my 6x6x6 print limitation
necessitating the jigsaw-style
connections.
I need a more reliable method than
shaft friction to lock the main shaft in
place. At present, the minute hand
tends to wobble.
Counterweight covers would replace
the tacky-looking blue tape holding
the coins in place
I ought to have designed a
counterweighted minute hand that is
actually longer than the hour
hand/gear train.
I want to add a pulley to the weight to
double the clock's run time and also
have the weight pull down the center
rather than offset.
Find a way to upload videos of this
thing in action.

Most of the gears and the anchor are printed at two

perimeters with zero percent infill. All frame pieces and the
drum assembly are at 30%.

Update: I uploaded a DXF of the gears that I used. One can

offset them to add more or less slop into the gear train
based on how your printer performs.

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