How To Make A Gear Wall Clock
The tools required to make a wooden gear clock.
How to make a gear wall clock. How to build a clock with visual aids and a video. Thankfully my buddy rick urschel is not nearly as impatient as i am. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. A hand made wooden clock is one of those projects i like to marvel at.
That is what we are going to do. Many pendulum clocks have the escape gear on the second hand axle. How we test gear. As discussed in how gear ratios work you can create a high ratio gear train that causes the drum to make perhaps one turn every six to 12 hours.
This causes the clock gears to stop and start rotating every second. It will make one rotation every 60 seconds. This article is about making a wooden gear clock from a plan purchased online. This would give you a clock that you only had to rewind once a week or so.
The gear ratio between the weight drum and the escapement gear might be something like 500 1 as shown in the diagram below. I m not sure i have enough patience to cut out one wooden gear let alone the multitude required to construct a fully functional clock. As the pendulum swings back and forth it rotates the escape lever in and out of the escape gear. The most popular plans are clayton boyer clocks.
How wooden gear clocks work.