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And now for something completely different. Here is a clock I assembled from a kit that my dad bought from the New England Clock Company when he used to work for them. It's all gears and springs and whatnot. I have to wind it about every four or five days. When I was putting it together, the trickiest thing, for me, was trying to get the gears to all line up to 12:00:00.
I tried taking a picture dead on from it, but the flash kept blinding everything out. When I wasn't using the flash, the camera kept making the picture too dark to actually see. Stupid camera. Anyway, I built this with my father a couple of years before heading off to college. During one of my several moves after college to now, the blasted thing just stopped working. I never could figure out why. And... well... now it's working again. Still not sure what made it decide to do so.
I tried taking a picture dead on from it, but the flash kept blinding everything out. When I wasn't using the flash, the camera kept making the picture too dark to actually see. Stupid camera. Anyway, I built this with my father a couple of years before heading off to college. During one of my several moves after college to now, the blasted thing just stopped working. I never could figure out why. And... well... now it's working again. Still not sure what made it decide to do so.
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((I did build it. It was a kit, like like an RC car where it has all the parts, you just need to supply most of the tools and read the instructions. It's weird. I can build stuff decently well... which I guess came from building stuff from legos, and then just moving up from there.))
A childhood interest in legos is indicative of strong three-dimensional visualization, a skill which is necessary for working with your hands. Some people do not have the knack, carpentry and mechanics are closed books to them. I think possibly sewing requires this skill as well, that's something I'm getting into. We'll see when I complete my first project, a fancy waistcoat.
That is a beautiful clock, and you really did a great job with it!
As for the clock not working have you checked if the gears are properly lubricated and that none of them have worn down. Based upon experiences I have had with my grandfather clock when the cogs in the mechanisms became dull, out of a lack of a better word, the clocks was not functioning properly anymore. Judging by the way you described how you assembled the clock clearly there is a lot of things going on with it. The only other thing of which I can think is if what you have is an atmospheric clock you might need to ensure that you placement of it is somewhere optimal as it was explained to me that such clocks are really sensitive.
As for the clock not working have you checked if the gears are properly lubricated and that none of them have worn down. Based upon experiences I have had with my grandfather clock when the cogs in the mechanisms became dull, out of a lack of a better word, the clocks was not functioning properly anymore. Judging by the way you described how you assembled the clock clearly there is a lot of things going on with it. The only other thing of which I can think is if what you have is an atmospheric clock you might need to ensure that you placement of it is somewhere optimal as it was explained to me that such clocks are really sensitive.
((I hadn't thought of that... but I'm afraid to actually open the face of the clock up again and mess with it. I've long since lost the instructions on building it, and... with my luck I'd take it apart to fix it, and then have a bag of importantly look parts left over after I put it back together.
The clock itself is kinda sturdy, so it shouldn't be that sensitive. I'm thinking it was just something dumb such as I didn't give the pendulum enough initial momentum for the ratchet / spring to work correctly.))
The clock itself is kinda sturdy, so it shouldn't be that sensitive. I'm thinking it was just something dumb such as I didn't give the pendulum enough initial momentum for the ratchet / spring to work correctly.))
You raise a great point about the pendulum, and many times that small part can make all the difference between the clock working badly or well.
As for the instruction manual, why don't you e-mail the manufacturer and see if you can get a copy from them? I would think that in this day and age of Adobe PDF files that the company might even be able to e-mail you a copy of the manual in some way?
As for the instruction manual, why don't you e-mail the manufacturer and see if you can get a copy from them? I would think that in this day and age of Adobe PDF files that the company might even be able to e-mail you a copy of the manual in some way?
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