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Making better the poorly clocks in and around the Belvoir vale.
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- The going train
- The mounted great wheels
- The screw cut.
- Mounting the Great wheels and going train.
- Division plate and lathe mod for roller filing rest
- Not much room in this little workshop
- Brazing equipment
- Remember to leave a raised ring for low friction
- Pickling in 10% sulphuric acid
- Hold it like this
- Roller filing rest
- Ratchet click, spring and screw
- Completed barrels and great wheels
- Barrels, endplates, slipwasher and ratchet
- Barrels, end plates, slip washers and ratchets.
- Barrel arbors
- Barrel Arbors
- Wheel, collet, arbor & pinion
- collets
- pinions
- pinions
- collets
- Homemade Wheel Cutting Engine
- Cutting the teeth.
- Unfinished Wheels
- The Wheels
- The Arbors
- Arbors
- the chassis
- The Chassis
- A completed handmade, mahogany longcase clock by m...
- In the beginning
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Your flying with this build! I`m trying to catch every minute I can in the shop to build mine but I`ve not even made a complete part yet! I`m still trying to cut a wheel.
ReplyDeleteCan I ask a couple of questions -
1. To cut your wheels are you using commerical cutters or making your own single point? It is this that is causing me all the problems - if I purchased them it would be much easier but they are just too expensive ... £52 per cutter and I would need a 0.6 and 0.8 for the wheels and then two 0.8 mod cutters for small leaf pinions! £220 cutter alone.
2. What other specialist, non-standerd engineers tools are you using. Obviously a depthing tool of sorts? I have just purchased Colin Thorne - Clock Building for the Model Engineer and he says to buy burnisher set 0.5mm to 10mm. That is a really huge range of burnishers...are they necessary?
Hope you can help. Do you have an email as posting messages like this in your comments is hijacking your blog a little! My email is posted in a previous message.
Chris
Hi Chris, as regards burnishing...
ReplyDeleteWhen I turn a pivot I take very slow light cuts so that the steel stays very shiny. Then I have a small handfile that I have ground down and I have stuck fine emery paper to it using double sided sticky tape. I use this to polish it furthur.
I dont think burnishing sets are really nessesary.
Cheers Craig, I can`t seen any pictures of you depthing the wheels, what tool are you using for this?
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