Some tips to help your wooden gear clock keep ticking.

[theeightsin]

haha. 'the workshop light-pull...ooooeeee'

Thanks for the tips!

[clockguy2]

Early American wooden clock makers found that gears with forward inclined gear teeth tend to move more freely.

[aerand]

"Instead of fluffy dice, a clock gear!" I hate those fluffy dices.

Paint the coasters with brass color, wallah! A steam-punk coasters!

Loved your Goof Ups idea. Hilarious but genius!

[OregonDARRYL]

Great tips and beautiful clock. I am a gear freak and am just getting starting in CNC routing.

[aa6757]

thanks for the video. I'm putting together the Balance clock at the moment and after going back and super polishing the arbors and buffing the gear teeth as you did, it's running very clean and doesn't randomly stop like it used to. I was also able to drop 1.7lb from the weight.

[jointheclubsmellypan]

That's great!! it's just the little things that will stop the clock, I find that if that it is usually arounf the escape wheel problems tend to crop up. Tinkering is part of the fun.

[cbehnke33]

great new video. i enjoy your tips and humor. i made the #6 Boyer clock and your 4 part video was immensely helpful. C'mon, i'm waiting for your next build and video.

[blrg]

how did you get the gears to spin so freely and nicely?

[jointheclubsmellypan]

I made sure that my arbors and the gear teeth were all super polished. I put wax crayon on the arborto reduce friction, which you can see how I did it on "making the Number 6 part 4." in my other mini movies

[blrg]

Thank you so much.

One more question (I've never made a wooden clock before). Do the Arbors remain stationary while the gears spin, or do they move with the gears?

[jointheclubsmellypan]

The Arbors are fixed in the gear wheel through friction, but they spin freely in the drilled holes in the wooden frame

[blrg]

do you do anything to lubricate the arbors in the frame, besides the crayon?

[jointheclubsmellypan]

Nope just make sure that your hole is clean and clear of saw dust. Some people do drill out the back of the arbor hole and put bearings in or other material to help reduce friction, I don't do that, So If you have used good quality HSS brad point drill bits that will cut a nice clean hole you should be ok.

[jointheclubsmellypan]

I get my plans from Clayton Boyer, you can find his site by clicking on the URL in my more info page at the top right hand corner.

He has some really interesting plans to make.

Drew.

[fly2000jtb]

Hi there, been looking at your videos. I subscribed to your videos or what ever you call it. Anyway, where do you get the designs from? Do you buy them from some store or just another clock person? Thanks for posting these videos, Joseph T (fly2000jtb)