Your prints look super clean! Best I have seen from a filament printer!

Nice build. Thanks for the look.

Clocks are one of the best 3 dimensional kinetic sculptures. By the way it can also be made out of plywood, but its alot of work, even with a cnc router.

making a mechanical clock is such a cool thing, brilliant

Beautiful design! I may just need to print one myself

Thanks for posting. Love your videos.

Great idea great video David thanks for the Dryer link

Thanks for sharing!

just a tip for storing filament; if you're going to use a plastic vacuum bag line it with aluminum or use silica bags/beads because the plastic bag itself could absorb water and release it into the the plastic inside. if you live in a fairly dry area than this isn't much of an issue, but somewhere like florida where it's fairly humid it can be just as bad as without a bag.

@xiar5546

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know if you noticed. They did throw a silica gel pack in the middle of the spool before closing the bag up.

Nice, someday, some clever person will figure out how to engineer a completely print-in-place clock, until that day, this is probably one of the best 3 print designs.

@stevesclocks

6 ай бұрын

It can be done, but you end up with a really short runtime. A clock that doesn't need winding several times per day will need some assembly and a few non-printed parts.

Thanks

good video

Nice!!!

That is cool

Nice, does it correct the pendulum for the procession of the earth, I know you're a stickler for details!

Thank you again, I find your videos inspiring and have started some "backyard foundry " work. Projects are casting a cylinder head for a 1936 motorcycle and an impeller fan for a Wadkin morticer. What is your "go-to" 3D printer for pattern making?

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

My go to now is the Flashforge Creator 3. It may be out of the price range for a hobbyist. Sovol SV01 and SV03 are my second choice.

@Blex1956

2 жыл бұрын

@@myfordboy Thank you

Finally I saw You !!! Your are looking young in this video

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

Not me.

@djzatka

2 жыл бұрын

@@myfordboy 😢

@djzatka

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry

At first glance I thought it said 3D printed Glock.... wrong channel for that 😆

@Markus__B

2 жыл бұрын

me too daniel.

Olá meu amigo é possível fazer pra nós as peças de um picador de plastico? José Luiz brasil Abraço

Beautiful clock. And perhaps that desing is the one what I start make. There is one thing (always is ;) ) what keep my wondering. Why filament makers and so many others throw that silica gel pouch to the middle hole? If you look these packets, silica gel pouch is middle and surrounding plastic seals is far away from your filament. Why those pouch is not throwed top of filament? =) Perhaps then they can suck all extra moisture. That way, I'm not sure. Thanks and sorry.

You deserve 633000 thumbs up! Our world is lost to fools I think...

Gday, after you played around with the pendulum, how long will the clock work for?

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

I built the version with 10 day run time on a winding. Once I sorted the pendulum issue it had not stopped.

Nicely done as and good design. Just a thing to ask is it printing a metal at 0.55 ?

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

No, a silver coloured PLA (plastic)

Great clock design. I have been building wood works clocks for years and would like to try yours in wood. Do you sell drawings?

@myfordboy

Жыл бұрын

It's not my design. You can download the STL files here: 32 day EZ build clock STL files :www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-32-day-clock-easy-build-156759

MFB, could you use the 3d printed parts to make brass casting ?? Then pull a Clickspring, and have a metal clock works

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

Cast clock gears would not work well.

@sleeplessengineer1450

2 жыл бұрын

You'd still have to machine them after casting them otherwise they'd be extremely rough and not mesh or turn at all.

can someone please explain... at 6:50, when you set the time, why does the entire system not bind up on the escapement? is there some form of clutch in the clock drive train that I am not aware of? was designing my own and hoping I dont have a major oversight. thank you and great video!

@myfordboy

5 ай бұрын

Hands are a friction fit on their shaft, same as any other clock.

@Ridevans4life

5 ай бұрын

@@myfordboy I dont believe so... at 7:10, you can clearly see the minute shaft and the lower right gear rotating. additionally, the hour hand advances with movement of the minute hand.

Nice! Die you check the accuracy of the clock? That would be very interesting!

@stevesclocks

2 жыл бұрын

The accuracy is mostly dependent on the length of the pendulum. PLA (plastic) has a lot of thermal expansion, but the clock is typically accurate within a minute or two per week when inside a house with heating and air conditioning.

😎👍

I didnt see any wind up spring of any sort.... how is it supposed to keep time?

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

It's a weight driven clock.

Primer like y primer comentario

what is the needed printer area (length, width, height)

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

Largest part is about 250 x 200 x 100

Umm, white paint would have been faster. Nice video, as always.

This design suffers from the fault inherent in almost all 3D printed and wooden clocks built to plans: The pendulum is supported on a pivot, OK it has ball bearings, but there is still friction, which reduces the "Q" of the pendulum and spoils the accuracy. So much better to suspend the pendulum from a strip of spring steel which has effectively zero friction. Yes the escapement and the crutch to drive the pendulum still need a pivot but they are light compared with the pendulum so there is less friction. All good clocks are built like this.

@stevesclocks

6 ай бұрын

I am the designer of the clock, and I tested dozens of pendulum support mechanisms before settling on small ball bearings. The most important characteristic is low friction. I did a free swing test and measured the time for the pendulum amplitude to degrade. Small ball bearings perform nearly as well as clock suspension springs when considering the pendulum by itself. Adding a crutch to the suspension spring adds extra friction and the ball bearings might have a slight advantage, but the difference is slight. The next most important characteristic is availability. I design my clocks for hundreds of people to build. This might be the first clock built by many of the builders. Ball bearings are readily available at a good price. Clock suspension springs are much harder for the average person to find. I also considered other spring sources (thread, guitar strings, etc.), but nothing performed significantly better than ball bearings. Suspension springs could be designed to compensate for circular error. This would give them an advantage in a precision regulator. The pendulum would also need temperature compensation for it to matter. I find that the performance of a 3D printed pendulum rod gives good enough performance in a modern house with heating and cooling to maintain reasonable temperature swings. My clocks are designed to be easy for an average non-horologist to build. I realize there are many features preventing them from being precision regulators. An accuracy of 1-2 minutes per week and an 8 day runtime is good enough for the intended audience.

is is suitalble for sla or dlp?

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

Everything prints without support so a resin printer could do a similar print. It was designed for FDM though so no gaurantee on the performance. I would say FDM print could be stronger.

@stevesclocks

2 жыл бұрын

Good question. Several people have asked, but I have not heard back with any good or bad results. I only have an FDM printer and designed the clock around its characteristics. The dial has layer based color changes that would want to be hand painted layer. It would need a reasonably large print volume. The gears would probably have awesome detail. It would be best with a tough material to reduce friction. PLA appears to have good durability and very low friction. The design has multiple gear ratios that allow you to select shorter runtimes or different drive weights to account for different degrees of friction.

@dant4774

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevesclocks @myfordboy thank you for the info, i recently bought a Photon Zero (they sent me separately the resin smh and it will arrive until wednesday) as soon as i get it i will give this a try and talk about my results (maybe even a video)

How loud is the ticking

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

It's much quieter than a clock with metal gears.

@renegadus5037

2 жыл бұрын

@@myfordboy tnx. I wanna print it. But dont wanna go crazy from the ticking :-)

Nice one, but number 4 is wrong it should be IV

@myfordboy

2 жыл бұрын

If you do a Google image search of clock face you will see both IIII and IV are commonly used.

@stevesclocks

2 жыл бұрын

The only public clock I can find that uses IV is the tower clock housing Big Ben in London. It may be the most famous clock in the world, but they did not follow the traditional numbering. All other clocks seem to prefer the "incorrect" Roman numerals IIII.

@janosnagyj.9540

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevesclocks How interesting, I never noticed it! I'll look for this in the future :)

@janosnagyj.9540

2 жыл бұрын

@@myfordboy I've just looked for antique clocks on Ebay, and in fact, almost all which have all the numbers indicated uses the incorrect IIII form. Interesting. It seems like most of the clocks I've ever seen didn't had all the numbers (just the standard 4) or were those rare examples where the number was correctly written. Really interesting!

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