Thread: Beginners guide (?) to Clayton's Horologium clock!

Chris
You express concern over the spacing of the wheels and have adapted the design to compensate for lack of adequate measuring devices. If you send me the correct dimensions, I will drill two holes in a piece of aluminum on my CNC machine and send it to you. I can even glue a block of 1" Walnut on it and you can then use the starter bits from a lath to drill the arbor holes.
I would recommend using steel arbors set in brass sleeves. Especially if you use ( UGH) MDF
Regards
Joe

Thank you for the very kind offer Joe, but I do not have a lathe!

My concern over the correct spacing of wheels is that as they can positioned by about 0.25mm+ relative to the arbor, depends on the force being applied to them. Thus when I change the position of the winding pulley drum, the minute wheel will shift a touch. With adjustable arbor positions I can allow for this.

Whether this is at all important for a beginner I have no idea. But I have read on the web that movement of 15thou is important. So I'm playing safe!

I guess I'm the only fool around using MR MDF - but I like the idea of recycling the scraps I have in the garage and it will save me a couple of bob.

Going for this sort of clock I will be very pleased if I achieve an accuracy of 15min/day - it is more an exercise in design and construction than building any thing accurate. I take it that although friction is important, it is consistency that is more important than how much it is.

Regards
Chris