a pendulum clock escapement in lego technic

A pendulum clock escapement in lego technic. It impulses once per oscillation. The impulse is of the recoil type, the recoil allowing the tail heavy locking detent to hop out of the way, in the manner of Harrison. At the pendulum's right hand extreme of swing, the locking detent is pushed back into the path of an escape wheel tooth, just as the impulse completes with the impulsing tooth falling off the impulse pallet. Similar to the galileo escapement, but making use of a 'harrisonian hop'.

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• pendulum
• clock
• escapement
• lego
• technic
• harrison
• galileo