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    Default Another Steampunk Clock

    A few years ago I made a clock for my Brother In Law's birthday. Due to an offhand comment he had made about Steampunk style, I decided to rummage through my scrap box and came up with a handful of failed steam engine boiler and engine parts and added to that with some copper tube, elbows and 90 degree bends. I had some milled Australian Red Cedar from which I fixed together a hollow tall tube and fitted a top and bottom plate with a routed profile edge. The mechanical parts were added using drilled holes and cyanoacrylate glue to fix them in place. The pressure gauge is actually a miniature thermometer fitup with the housing machined from aluminium and brass. Most of the parts were powdercoated in matt black and the brass parts were powdercoated in clear gloss. The sprockets and chains came from an old photocopier circa 1990's and I think the gears came from a scrapped Fordigraph printer. The clock mechanism itself is just a quartz insert. The little brass nameplate was etched from brass sheet using black acrylic spray paint as a resist and the artwork was engraved through it using a laser cutter engraver. The exposed brass was etched away using ferric chloride.
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    The feet on the clock were brass plumbing couplings. The whistle actually works if it is pressurised with steam or air. I sent these photos to a colleague and he shot a reply straight back to me wanting to know what fuel I used to make the steam, Sadly, I had to break it to him gently when I told him that it was actually a battery operated clock and that there was no fuel or steam involved.
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    Preso
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    A very clever idea, and well executed to boot! Certainly a good way to use up those 'might come in handy one day' bits and pieces we have accumulating age in our workshops.

    Alan...

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    bravabravabrava

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    Well done, a nice use of components to create a very visually pleasing clock.

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