Cool 3D Printed Mechanical Clock | Tourbillon Mechanica (FDM Version) Assembly Guide 

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Well don't look at mine, cuz my printer prints on paper only

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my 3d printer: don’t look at me, i’m still in the prototyping stage of a crowdfunding campaign.

@@iblackfeathers waddagunn

Check out the 3D printed car on my channel that I created 7 years ago.

you might find 3d printed engines cool

Well I mean, I’ve seen a house that’s bean 3d printed using cement, like an actual house

@@MigunoOS Although I find the utility function of that pretty awesome, I find the complex shapes that you can create with 3D printing more awesome than printing something big.

Laurens Wes well I mean they are building these to help end homelessness because they can be created quickly and cost 4000 dollars

Is it weird that I immediately want to do this?

If I had the skills. Watchmaking has always impressed me.

@Jake Yeah, there's no mechanism for setting the time, not sure what else could be missing though; not a watchmaker. Though this size clock I might be able to make, if I had a 3d printer. And time. And... Well, maybe later...

I mean, I have a microscope for a reason..

Asmusei get shipped to China and you can do it for free

WD40 is not an oil it’s an rust remover. Big misconception. It should never be used to lube anything.

@@Chrissi33004 WD - Water Displacement -- Solvent -- 40th attempt to get things right

@@Chrissi33004 WD-40 is actually a sentient oil that understands what you want it to do and does it. This is why it has so many applications.

@@harthenry exactly oil displaces water. some oils actually evaporate. which after displacing the water leaves the metal joint dry. most oils are resistant to quick evaporation, but Volatile oils will evaporate within days or weeks.

In my experience dry graphite lube works wonders with 3D printed parts.

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I freaking love that someone made this reference! You are the real MVP

"Deeeeesmond the moon beaar"

😂😂

with some Spacers ! 😂

Was thinking the same thing

Hi everyone! 😂😂😂😂😂

i'm waiting this tooo

greeks had it

Some of the greatest works of art of all time.

But at the same time there was no distractions back then like watching a guy put together a 3D printed clock on RU-vid.

And do it in one fifth the size!

seriously ... blows my mind.

What's crazier is we did it hundreds of years before we had CAD software or computers to plan the design, it had to be built by a paper blueprint or trial and error, or likely both. Even just making the tools was fine and difficult work

ik this was two years ago, but would you happen to know a good brand for skeleton watches? I've been struggling trying to find exactly what I picture in my mind.

@@zitriphyer8429 Mine is a Rotary, around the £150.00 to £200.00 mark, pretty basic - self winding, and looks pretty cool, but doesn't have as many moving parts on display as I'd like. 'Watch' this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NRhSgrrpK7I.html How to afford one of them is not something he explains, but they are beautiful works of art. I hope you find what you're looking for!

@@Stevo_1985 thanks!

@@zitriphyer8429 No problem!

glad im not the only one who saw it...

UrSoMeanBoss everyone saw it lol

great eyes see alike

I scoured the comments just for this reason

If it's not intentional. I call it a yes.

he should do some small batch production and sell them as kits...not sure it'd make him rich...but small batch manufacturing is getting cheaper and more accessible to the masses all the time...

Bruh is buy one of these

Imp ThePimp I highly doubt he could sell it for enough time justify it. He might even lose money

@@michaelesposito2629 depends on cost to manufacture vs selling price..i think as a kit it could get a 70-80 dollar price point...probably find someone to manufacture packaging...i'm seeing a lot going on with 3d printers...conveyor belts on them...and all open source pretty much

Why did you stop at first?

I was about to ask if it does work at least one day :) I guess not. Maybe with a metal spring ? Thin and long should give about same force but for longer time than plastic spring.

@@IAdryan or perhaps a small electric motor and battery, hidden away somewhere to keep giving it a 'gentle' wind?

@@IAdryan In the pdf he shows how to make a steel spring but it only lasts about 10 minutes longer.

What about a chain drive with a weight? Like a cuckoo clock.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pXt3Qhan3cQ.html

Ohoo I haven't thought about that show in years!

What?

Why is this here

they will destroy the clock

I've watched this multiple times and I still don't understand how it works

@Vendicar Kahn why very hard? It's just time consuming

@@notioncreanga If you don't have the patience and are not a fan of all this manual stuff than it can be frustrating.

@Vendicar Kahn If you are getting stringing and zits then your printer is not dialed properly. My ender 3 pro can easily do that

@Vendicar Kahn ?

foolish

You and I have very different tastes, haha. I had to watch it on mute!

OOH! second run for new artifacts would be awesome. I'd, also, would like some affordable Pauper grade Artifacts in this artstyle. and maybe some uncommons?

Buy one you’ll build more than just this

I'm fairly sure that would help. my knowledge on watches and clocks is pretty limited though.

Yes, metal springs would give a significant increase in time but as far as clocks go it wouldn't last long, a weight works great, but would require a good bit of redesign to the clock spring mechanism to work off of that instead

@@Sleekman I love teemo😁

Idk if a metal mainspring would actually be better. I guess perhaps because it could be thinner and therefore be longer but if not then it won't make a difference.

@@Robstrap spring steel is significantly better at, well being a spring than plastic, can hold much more tension, and as you said is thinner so it can be wound up more, there are clocks like this that are able to take metal springs and they dramatically increase the runtime

I mean you could always do it the inelegant way and shove a geared up motor into the windup area. Just make sure it's one that's fine being held close to still.

If the proportions are correct it will definetly do

I use it all the time ,though i usually chamfer the sharp edges that is placed on the heatbed in Fusion360, i do still use " elephant foot compensation "

I offer 3d printing as a service for projects, 120 parts, 90 hours of print time I'd bill you $900+ so...not feasible

@@quickdiy8127 You'll be surprise that people are willing to pay for this!

@@quickdiy8127 $900 I could print that for $300 easy

If anyone in is interested I can print one for you guys, just pay for my filament, time and shipping

Or Robert Hooke as this isn't quite a pendulum clock, he invented the balance spring, the design used in this clock...

Or Abraham-Louis Breguet for inventing the flying tourbillon in 1801! Hand making all these parts by hand and being accurate enough to tell time. Incredible

Or Abraham-Louis Breguet for inventing the flying tourbillon in 1801! Hand making all these parts by hand and being accurate enough to tell time. Incredible

@@nlq7844 Or Franz Anton Ketterer who invented a Cuckoo coming out of the clock.

Or just put a motor instead of the big spring

Would be nice to last longer, otherwise you'd look at it and wonder why you only slept under 15 minutes.

SillyWilly699 It would stop being a mechanical clock if you added an electronic energy source, that's the magic of this, even if it only lasts 15 minutes.

If the main spring, pendulum spring, and escapement fork and wheel were metal, this could be a nice, usable clock that would last a long time.

Even simpler: heavy weight on spooled up string.

4 is the one I'm most interested in finding of course. ~sigh

I’m obviously not the one who made it, but I know some about clocks and have a background in material science so I can answer a couple of these from experience. The durability of the individual parts I would actually expect to be relatively high, but there will be issues with friction over time. Because of that friction, and the fact that the hairspring is made of plastic as well, this clock likely won’t hold accurate time for all that long, and its basic level of accuracy is going to be quite low to start with, as it only seems to be operating at around 1-3Hz for the beat rate. The idea of a quartz/battery mechanism would be better for accuracy, but it doesn’t seem that was the intention here. This doesn’t seem to be so much of a functional clock as it is a gorgeous piece of art that is made partly to test skill. I would think of it more as a sculpture than a clock, though it is an amazing way to demonstrate the principles of watchmaking, even including some very high-skill design into it.

@@charredhusk Yeah, 3D printing is st6very rough today, and some oil is necessary. Also so many pieces taking away energy, it's too much. This is the problem with our Societies, Art and Technology don't mix well, instead of 1 inspiring the other

@@saultube44 Agreed. This is also the reason that watchmaking of this level is so expensive and difficult. Getting the design right is only step 1. Then comes perfecting materials and machining to the level of actually achieving the precision required. I do have to say though, this is one of the most excellent printed clock designs I have seen so far in terms of function. Not to mention the skill required to actually design and make a functioning tourbillon, even in plastic and not metal, is already very high.

@@charredhusk Interesting, yeah it has a lot of merit, so close to be a great watch with enough refinement and optimizations. I hope he gets to improve it, because it's beautiful, mesmerizing in its functioning, it just needs more love to be that fascinating intersection of optimal art and technology, actually the 2 parts of our brain: the emotional that is expressed through art, and that gives reason to appreciate our days, and the intellectual part: that give us sense of self-sufficiency, of conquering the difficulties. Maybe a collaboration among alike minds would be better

I wondered this too. I didn’t notice any mechanism to calibrate the balance wheel.

@@scaredyfish Also, he doesn't have a mainspring shape that provides constant pressure over the winding/unwinding cycle, so its probably not very accurate, not that a 3D printed clock would be.

With this hairspring, the accuracy can t be very sure😅 I think it is an esthetic work

You would be wrong. The filament and time it takes to print this far out prices the cost of decent 3d printers now. My printer cost me 500 bucks. Can get the same one now for 300. Filament for all the colors would need a minimum of 3 rolls thats about 60 bucks. and the time to print this would and make sure each part was functional would put the cost of this easily over 300 bucks and damn near 500.

And I thought I was the only one I saw it XD. BTW what anime is that pfp from if you know?

They have those. And yes you can 3d print one. I just don't know of someone who has done it already