Saturday, May 26, 2012

Verge and Foliot Clock



The striking mechanism is done, the bell rings twice an hour now.  Just need some finials and a few finishing touches and then to decide what to do next! 

4 comments:

  1. I love the clock, hopefully I will soon be fiddling to get a foliot verge hook and spike clock going and this has inspired me.

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  2. Love the clock. Could you give me more details on the final tooth per wheel count? I would like to construct something similar, but I'm finding it hard to locate technical details on such clocks.
    Thanks

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  3. my gear ratios didnt turn out the best, I recommend using something out of the Almanus manuscript.
    I ended up with :
    72:8:52:8 11 teeth on the crown gear
    96 teeth on face with a 4 tooth pinion

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  4. Great work!
    you can adjust your clock to normal time by increasing the inertia of the balance by a factor 4. For this increase the weight of the bala nce runners by about 4.
    Read https://pawn.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~roess/NichtSoWichtiges.htm for more theory and experimental evidence

    dieter.roess@t-online.de

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