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This is just ... uh... some "ugears clock" i built together with my niece during the chrismas day. Took about 6 hours to assemble. Never worked properly... because "clockwork".
Clockmaking took centuries to develop because it's... EXTREMELY hard. No joke.
The most this ran was about 30 seconds unattended.
Unfortunately it got destroyed a few days ago while i was still fine tuning it to at least try and get something that could run a few minutes before dying.
Mostly because my parents really do not like me doing stuff that is not "work" and they decided that arranging it so it would get destroyed "by mistake" was the next best thing to telling me i should instead "focus on work", since i dared spend the 25th, the 26th and most of the 27th trying to make its functioning longer and longer.
All that is left of it is this rather crappy gif and 2 videos that also divulge i have to get my 3rd dose of vaccine tomorrow and where i spent my 1 year in the USA when i went there as well as what i looked like as a kid and some of my relatives when they were alive. 🤣
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oeybhcfz.....l_ePTE7Bz5lGTa
Clockmaking took centuries to develop because it's... EXTREMELY hard. No joke.
The most this ran was about 30 seconds unattended.
Unfortunately it got destroyed a few days ago while i was still fine tuning it to at least try and get something that could run a few minutes before dying.
Mostly because my parents really do not like me doing stuff that is not "work" and they decided that arranging it so it would get destroyed "by mistake" was the next best thing to telling me i should instead "focus on work", since i dared spend the 25th, the 26th and most of the 27th trying to make its functioning longer and longer.
All that is left of it is this rather crappy gif and 2 videos that also divulge i have to get my 3rd dose of vaccine tomorrow and where i spent my 1 year in the USA when i went there as well as what i looked like as a kid and some of my relatives when they were alive. 🤣
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/oeybhcfz.....l_ePTE7Bz5lGTa
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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File Size 7.74 MB
They do tend to be very wonky and extremely fragile, most of the clockwork i have almost destroyed itself just from getting winded. Unless the clockwork is super simple it... never works well... but that's a problem with cheap balsa wood clockwork. Still. They are very relaxing to build.
Yeah, they are damn fragile, but I found that using a fine file to make sure all the cutout snags are removed, then using not just the tiny piece of wax they include but grabbing a couple more church candles helps a ton.
I am also pretty sure there's no balsa there if only because it just does not exist in Ukraine. More likely pine or birch, neither of which is dudable either, though.
I am also pretty sure there's no balsa there if only because it just does not exist in Ukraine. More likely pine or birch, neither of which is dudable either, though.
i know i normally use the stuff i also use for other things, and i have clamps with the... don't know the english words... the white glue... so i can restore the balsa to it's original sturdiness if it cracks.
Still some gears have ridiculously tiny axles for the amount of stress they have to bear and some of their ... don't know the neglish word... "off axis gears"(?) really should have proper stuff.
In any case... lots and lots of filing, lots and lots of waxing, occasional nuking in a microwave to ensure the waxing is well absorbed by the wood, etc. etc.
They still break so easily that i understand why Tegerio said so.
Still some gears have ridiculously tiny axles for the amount of stress they have to bear and some of their ... don't know the neglish word... "off axis gears"(?) really should have proper stuff.
In any case... lots and lots of filing, lots and lots of waxing, occasional nuking in a microwave to ensure the waxing is well absorbed by the wood, etc. etc.
They still break so easily that i understand why Tegerio said so.
yes the marble machine was always one of my most loved "songs".
Seeing him deciding to abandon the marble machine X because he decided to completely change approach and redo it from scratch but outside of prying eyes has me bot approving and crying because i loved seeing him try stuff, succeed and also fail. I felt like i learned a lot with him.
Seeing him deciding to abandon the marble machine X because he decided to completely change approach and redo it from scratch but outside of prying eyes has me bot approving and crying because i loved seeing him try stuff, succeed and also fail. I felt like i learned a lot with him.
I hope he keeps the specs of what he'd completed so far. He seemed so close, to the point almost anyone else would find his design splendid.
I'd fallen behind on watching the updates, but noticed they stopped coming one day. Given the phase he was in, I'd simply assumed he finally assembled it in a way that had it all working right.
I'd fallen behind on watching the updates, but noticed they stopped coming one day. Given the phase he was in, I'd simply assumed he finally assembled it in a way that had it all working right.
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