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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock Part Nine: Planting the Great Wheel and Fusee

15:29

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock:Part Eight Making the Mainspring Ratchet and Click

14:50

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Seven Installing the Mainspring

19:05

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Six Making the Mainspring Barrel Arbor

19:04

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Five Barrel Arbor Length Gauge

10:10

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 4 The Washers, Screws and Feet

17:41

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Ten Planting the Center and Third Wheels

In this episode we plant the center and third wheels in WR Smith’s Grasshopper Clock. Then we’ll cut the oil sinks.
Here are some links to things mentioned in the video:
Gear Cutter video:
th-cam.com/video/dCeBCR0-lr0/w-d-xo.html
Cutting the Gear video:
th-cam.com/video/43d5fj6XPGA/w-d-xo.html
Crossing the Wheel video:
th-cam.com/video/Ca5A5xhuCd8/w-d-xo.html
Making the lantern Pinions video:
th-cam.com/video/QuiFJgtQ8DQ/w-d-xo.html
WR Smith’s Making Gravers:
www.nawcc-index.net/Articles/Smith-gravers.pdf

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock Part Nine: Planting the Great Wheel and Fusee

15:29

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock Part Nine: Planting the Great Wheel and Fusee

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This episode starts out with a brief explanation of a fusee and a quick look at the making of the great wheel and the fusee. Then using 5 sided broach and a smoothing broach the great wheel and fusee are planted in the clock plates. For a more detailed look at the making of the great wheel and fusee I have two videos out that are longer and get into the construction in a bit more detail. Making...

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock:Part Eight Making the Mainspring Ratchet and Click

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock:Part Eight Making the Mainspring Ratchet and Click

มุมมอง 2.4K5 ปีที่แล้ว

In this episode we'll make a single point cutter to make the mainspring ratchet. Then a click is formed and installed with a shop made screw

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Seven Installing the Mainspring

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Seven Installing the Mainspring

มุมมอง 4.6K5 ปีที่แล้ว

In this episode we'll install the mainspring into the barrel using a Webster Mainspring Winder. Then we'll make a tool to check the fit of the mainspring to the barrel.

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Six Making the Mainspring Barrel Arbor

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Six Making the Mainspring Barrel Arbor

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In this episode I make the mainspring barrel arbor for WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock from a piece of drill rod and then make and install the hook for the mainspring.

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Five Barrel Arbor Length Gauge

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part Five Barrel Arbor Length Gauge

มุมมอง 1.9K5 ปีที่แล้ว

The making of a simple tool to measure the inside length of a main spring barrel.

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 4 The Washers, Screws and Feet

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 4 The Washers, Screws and Feet

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In this episode I make a lathe bit to create decorative washers for the pillar ends and then use the CNC lathe to make the screws needed to install the washers. At the end the feet are installed on the plates.

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 3 The Pillars

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 3 The Pillars

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In this episode I make the pillars for the grasshopper clock. I use both my Sherline lathe and my Moseley watchmaker's lathe to do the decorative turning.

19:11

Making a small ratchet wheel

มุมมอง 4.3K5 ปีที่แล้ว

I am given an worn out ratchet from a carriage clock and I take some measurements with a toolmaker's microscope and make a new ratchet.

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 2 The Feet

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 2 The Feet

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The feet for the clock are turned using both a shop made trepanning tool and form tool on an old Atlas lathe and a CNC Sherline lathe.

Ferguson's Mechanical Paradox Orrery Rebuild

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Ferguson's Mechanical Paradox Orrery Rebuild

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In the 1760s James Ferguson built this five gear orrery. It has become known as Ferguson’s Mechanical Paradox orrery because one gear drives three other gears in three different directions. But that is only a very small part of this orrery…it is also a very clear representation of the relationship between the earth, moon and sun. Ferguson’s Mechanical Exercises: www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titlei...

WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 1 The Plates

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WR Smith's Grasshopper Clock: Part 1 The Plates

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This is the beginning of the Grasshopper Clock project. In this part the plates are cut out, chain drilled, die filed, draw filed and sanded to the size and shape required.

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DIY Gear Cutter: The Button Tool 4

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The last video in the Eureka Tool series. I make 2 button tools and cut a gear.John Stevenson’s write up: web.archive.org/web/20130112075737/www.metalwebnews.com:80/howto/gear/gear1.html mikesworkshop write up: mikesworkshop.weebly.com/designing-gear-cutters.html