Great walk through of your build, and a wonderful presentation. Your vids are always enjoyable to watch. I like what you did with the numbers on Electra's face. Much more Deco looking.
Very incredible to see this clock. It works like the "Hipp Palette" principe, used by Favag in Switzerland (and others brands) from 19th century up to 1960-1970.
I'd suggest pulling apart a relay to get the contacts out of them, they are rated for lots of operations and are made of all sorts of interesting materials. Also as @fart1fart1 said a diode will help some, also a small ceramic cap will do a good job, like the condenser in the distributor of a car.
Excellent work as always, you and Clayton inspire me greatly. Am halfway through my first three of his Deco clocks. Why 3 you may ask? Figured that if I have to cut one gear with so many teeth, I may as well stack them and cut them three at a time lol. Do this on each gear and so far is working out well. Will be immensely pleased if mine turn out to be half as good as yours, Adrian Iredale’s and Clayton’s. You really are an exceptional craftsman and I thank you for sharing your hard work and expertise with us all, thanks mate, excellent work
Cool, I'm glad that the videos helped,your, your clocks will be around for a long time. I like the idea of multiples, as then you can see where to improve and it will give you loads of experience for when if you decide to build more wooden gear clocks.
For the Electric Wooden gear clock, I havent had any problems with the Contacts now that I am using silver. Before I just found some earings my wife didn't want and I wasn't sure what they were. Thats why I was getting little blue sparks and then sticking now I don't have that problem.
@moalanikai thanks I had fun looking for and cutting out the font that I thought looked right for the electra. I wanted to make it a cool fun clock as that is what it is.
Nice work M8E. Interesting to note many people suggest a diode to reduce sparking - back in the ole days, when cars had (contact breaker) points, they used a capacitor across the contacts to eradicate sparking........ Mr Google or Mr Wiki may give you tech spec on relative merits of diodes v capacitors
Where can I purchase the electronics needed for this clock? I have built the clock but am totally ignorant about electronics. Any help would be appreciated. Maybe a web site or a name or something would help.
Go to lisaboyer.com where the original and as quoted above plans come from and Clayton can sell you the plans and all the info needed to build any of his clocks
Hello, you can share the files of this project, I do not have the money to buy them / Hola, puedes compartir los archivos de este proyecto, es que no tengo el dinero para comprarlos
One large mistake. NO spark quench capacitor fitted the sparking will eat away pure silver contacts. Far better contacts can be found by removing the contacts from a contactor or heavy current relay, these contacts are made from a mixture of metals designed to stand contact sparking.
