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bloody hell, you don't hang around! How did you cut the small bevel gear? Is it one piece or pressed into the larger piece that you're tapping in one of the pictures?
bloody hell, you don't hang around! How did you cut the small bevel gear? Is it one piece or pressed into the larger piece that you're tapping in one of the pictures?
I cannot take credit for the gears (Boston gear made them). I designed the clock around the readily available gears. The disk was added for two reasons. Once I reamed the small gear to ID, I needed some thickness for the set screw. Secondly, it looks like a flywheel, all be it small.
If this is going to be a clock you will need to keep the engine RPM essentially constant. I see no governor. How will you do it?
Like BF said, this clock is going to be electric. I am driving the vertical shaft with a 120v ac motor that will be hidden in the boiler. I just want he a steam punk clock that actually had plausible components. Not just “stuff” added on that looks like it might be steam related.
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