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Gina

Beyond the Event Horizon
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  1. Here's just the drive chain.  This is just the gears and ratchet wheel without the main axle and bearings.

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    Explanation :- 

    1. Green wheel is seconds with red pinion attached
    2. Red and blue gears form the seconds to minutes reduction with the pinion above
    3. Yellow wheel driven by friction from blue gear - provides ability to set time.
    4. Pink pinion on yellow wheel drives minutes to hours reduction
    5. Orange and pastel pink gears plus pink pinion reduce minutes to hours.

    Red and orange gears are fixed.  Green, blue yellow and pink rotate on ball bearings.  The ball bearings keep the wheels aligned.

  2. As mentioned in the initial description, this clock uses epicyclic gearing to provide the 60:1 and 12:1 reduction ratios between seconds and minutes and between minutes and hours.  This is described in my DIY Skeleton Epicyclic Clock with 3D Printed Gears but I shall repeat it here.

    The principle involved is that when a pinion is moved round two spur gears with just one tooth difference and one gear is fixed the moving gear rotates by one tooth for each revolution of the axis of the pinion.  So if the fixed gear has 59 teeth and the moving gear 60 teeth the gear ratio between the rotation of the pinion axle and the moving gear is 60:1.  This is the ratio required for seconds to minutes in a clock.

    When the gears are different by two teeth the moving gear turns by two teeth for each revolution of the pinion axle thus if the gears have 22 and 24 teeth the gear ratio becomes 24:2 = 12:1.  This is the minutes to hours ratio.  However, it works out better to have more teeth and a lower modulus to make the motion smoother for 3D printed gears.  Using 44 and 48 teeth gives a gear ratio of 48:4 = 12:1.

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  3. The striking mechanism - more parts to add yet.  Shown about to strike 12 o'clock.  The snail cam rotates anti-clockwise and winds the rack up one notch whilst striking once per revolution.  The pawl holds the rack as the tooth on the snail cam leaves the rack.  Once the appropriate number of strikes has occurred the tooth on the small snail cam contacts the lug on the end of the rack and stops.  The mechanism remains in this state until just before the next hour when a cam on the minute shaft causes levers to hold the small snail cam and lift the pawl, releasing the rack, which drops until stopped by the peg contacting the large snail cam (brown).  On the hour, the small snail cam is released and the pawl dropped onto the rack and the next hour strikes.

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  4. I think I may be wrong in going for a very large escape wheel.  Metal longcase clock mechanisms have quite small escape wheels of 50mm or less so my original 100mm diameter wheel was already much bigger than standard pendulum clocks with a one second pendulum.  I have found out why my earlier recoil anchor escapement gave problems - the pendulum bob was far too heavy.  With the new lighter bob the earlier escapement may work.

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