3D Printing a working mechanical Clock
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Shows a mechanical Clock, created with a 3D-Printer. Illustrates, how the design was done with Blender, the printing process, the assembly, and the final run.
Blender- and STL-files can be downloaded here:
www.thingiverse...
This is a beautiful addition to the internet!
It's hard to appreciate designs like this as you don't see the failed parts that are slightly misaligned or simply don't fit. The box of waste is what really demonstrates the frustration of the process.
Thanks for the clock!
Very nice job (finally). And the speed the printer churns out parts, that box of 'duds' must represent a mass of time expended; blood; sweat; and tears. I salute your dedication
Nice job. Must have taken many hours, both in Blender and afterword. I like the pulley mechanism that the weight hangs from, much better than having the weight hanging down one side with a counterweight hanging down the other side. I'm going to have to remember that trick. Thanks!
Wow, absolutely amazing! A lovely timepiece!
This is fantastic, and a 3D printing milestone I will remember. The next one will be when I see a working 3D printed wrist or pocket watch!
Luke Perkin not to mention a lot of money from wasted pla
I am still in process of printing mine and hope to be done today or tomorrow. Thanks so much for providing this! I have always wanted to build a mechanical clock. This is the most awesome thing I have printed with my 3D printer, thus far.
This clock is amazing! Very well done! But I must commend you on the video as well. Your video is really well made. I like how you demonstrated the clock, showed the blender software, and also a time lapse of the assembly. Thank you for explaining how the whole thing works.
And lastly, I can say I fully appreciate the very end where you showed how many iterations of pieces you had to go through to arrive at a working product.
Awesome!!!!
What an amazing project! I'm so glad you got it working after all those failed experiments!
I can't believe you used Blender for this! Must've taken ages, and would have been a lot easier in a CAD software like Inventor or Solidworks.
Nonetheless, this is an amazing design :)
+ISeeFurther when I saw the blender clip, I mouthed "wow" to myself. I've made very basic 3d printed designs in Blender (little figures and such), but getting precise mechanical parts modelled up must have been an absolute nightmare.
Using OpenSCAD to "program" gears is the easiest way I've found so far
+Gareth Crispin (MrHolozip) initially I found it indeed painful with Blender. But finally I got the "trick" how to use the array-modifier for gear-teeth. Now I'm using Fusion 360 - it has a very convenient script to generate involute gears, however if you need to tune the tooth shape, it is equally clumsy like Blender.
If you want to use Open source software like "Blender", you can use "FreeCAD". Also I think there are mods for blender that make it better for CAD with things like dimensioning being added.
Anyways thanks for sharing this wonderful project with us!
Astounded, that you pulled it off with blender!
@@ChristophLaimer if you add a planetary gears to slow down the soeed at what the weight drops cant you increase the clocks runtime between winds?
wow this is the coolest design i have seen
this is incredible! love that 1940's style face too.
Hi Christoph, Just realized that you made the files available, but I still would be pleased to pay you for them and sell them for you. People don't understand the incredible amount of work and engineering that goes into a product like this, not to mention debugging and jigging things. Great Job!
Hi Francois. I don't intend to earn money with selling that clock model, because I wouldn't be able to provide appropriate support if there are issues. I'm happy with glory and honor. Feel free to sell the files or any printed parts, if the general clock design remains my intellectual property.
Building this beauty as we speak. Robox Dual making larger parts and FormLabs 1+ for the smaller components. Interesting little engineering project to see if I can add my own ultra low power micro-controller POWERED by the escapement mechanism (no battery, just charging a capacitor) to dampen the balance wheel to keep it synchronized to the crystal reference it is powering. Gravity powered by the weights, the balance spring is the main oscillator kept in check by a quartz crystal reference and no battery of any kind. Lots of little precision ball bearings to minimize friction and hopefully have a real conversation piece and plastic heirloom functional clock as well. Kudos to this gorgeous design and thanks for making it available.
amazing, you did that in blender, I used blender for animation, video editing, rendering and some simple 3D printing stuff, but never something that complicated, nice work!
Christoph, thanks very much for this model. I am currently about 1/2 way printing this on my mendel prusa and I am delighted by your attention to detail, and design-for-3D-printing details. I look forward to designs in the near future that have snap-fit details similar to injection molded parts, and minimal use of fasteners.
I can't even make a milkshake in blender. A clock . amazing build
I'm geeking out so hard to this. Awesome video!
Great project! Very good to learn how a clock mechanism functions.
All successes come with a box of failures. Great work. I always use Blender....does everything I need and more.
Beautiful. A work of art.
this needs more views. excellent job! I have wanted to do something like this for some time, and possibly cast the parts in aluminum.
This is inspiring and helpful. Thank you.
Wicked skills all around. Impressive! Thanks for posting this.
i'm printing right now your clock, really a great project, thank you!
Is it possible to create a mechanical clock without using the spring.
You can make the time last longer with 70 cm if you run the string back up to a smaller spool on the same axis. Allowing the string already used to come back up and give the weight more space.
Beautiful! Mechanical art? Amazing, thank you for sharing!
can you tell me where i can buy PINS: 1 x Balance wheel: 1.5mm diameter, 40mm length
1 x Escape wheel: 2.0mm diameter, 28mm length
1 x Reduction gears: 2.0mm diameter, 60mm length
1 x Drum Transmission: 3.0mm diameter, 60mm length
1 x Drum Axis: 3.0mm diameter, 60mm length
1 x Crank transmission: 3.0mm diameter, 30mm length
4 x Planets Axis: 3.0mm diameter, 39mm length
1 x Weight Axis: 3.0mm diameter, 15mm length
beautiful work mate
This is very beautiful. Amazing talent and ingenuity.
Wow, this is a great project - thanks for showing it!
Where does one find the sizes and lengths of the pins that are needed for assembly?
Thank you very much for your demonstration and explanation!
That's pretty neat. If you had a regular pendulum, you could get more accurate timing with a sliding weight to help adjust the escapement period. Looks like this one uses a balance wheel, so the method of correcting that doesn't seem so obvious. (Maybe an adjustable friction brake perhaps?)
Friction has not much influence on the timing. The combination of spring strength and the mass distribution from the balance wheel are relevant: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_wheel#Period_of_oscillation
On some watches I've looked at, they seem to have a rotatable lever thingy to alter the effective working length of the balance-wheel spring ??
this is very cool. i'm looking at getting a printer this week, might have to try this out, thanks for sharing your hard work.
Christoph! this is amazing work! keep it up.
I tried making this years ago, and could never get it to work. The lack of a safety roller in the escapement makes troubleshooting very frustrating. I would recommend you designing a pendulum clock next time, a pin pallet escapement is just more complicated than it needs to be, especially with the limitations of 3D printing.
So, next up design a pulley with a good ratio so that it can pull a few meters of string in the same distance with a heavier weight and run the clock for more then a day :)
Superb video! The clock is impressive, but I am also impressed with your video editing.
I checked the dictionary for a word that describes my impression. The word(s) that comes closest is: WOW! GR8T work.... Amazing :) Cheers.
Proud of you for your great work !
Fantastic, I want to printed your clock
that is amazing! I'm printing one asap
This is probably the coolest thing I have seen 3D printed. And you did a great job putting the video together. Thanks so much for sharing. What are the chances a novice 3D printer could replicate the clock?
Ottimo lavoro. Ho costruito l' orologio grazie ai modelli riportati in rete. Alla fine mi sono però accorto che la molla di 'SCAPPAMENTO' non può essere realizzata in PLA perchè troppo flessibile e a conti fatti i componenti dello scappamento (molla e bilanciere) sono stati progettati in materiale PLA. Sono al momento allo studio di una modifica da apportare per far funzionare l' Orologio. Grazie comunque per i modelli che sono per me stati uno stimolo a costruire un orologio e anche capire il funzionamento dal punto di vista fisico.
the best ever 3d print i have seen😘
This is incredible! Just optained a cheap 3D printer, i think i am eventually going to try this! :)
Will probably take me a couple of weeks to print though :)
Wow. Very nice work! So... People were printing clocks before they were printing Glocks?? Who knew?!! XD
Amazing Work!! I am doing this in 2017... Thanks!
Excellent work!
Brilliant!, you are a master designer.
Fantastic project
Wow, so cool! Great work!
2:56 for start of assembly
Fantastic work! I love this.
I suppose that before you have had experience doing wooden gears with a CNC machine, if so please tell me in your experience with which you got better results.
Try to put painters tape on the platform the gears where printed on, it will make it alot easier to take the gear off.
I've had horrible experience with tape. I get my best results using good old Pritt Stick. I really need to get shares in this company because I use a lot, but get no more warping :-)
@@liamsbargains6129 wow my comment was 6 years ago. I dont even remember saying that
nice work my friend👍👍
I still can't get mine running. Have tried multiple different weights but the darn thing doesn't kick up any near as perfect as it does in the video.
Looks like a pendulum clock from the ‘30s !! ( the mechanical parts)
Really impressive.
Wow. Really impressive
really a very nicely designed mechanical part! I was really looking forward to it and invested many hours in printing and post-processing...I don't know what I'm doing wrong, because unfortunately the escapement mechanism just doesn't work for me! the spring doesn't fit either, has hardly any tension and looks different than in your video...a shame :( still a great job because it worked for you.
Try to pour cold water on your parts to release them from the print-bed !
+Théry S. Cool :-) ... I'm using an UM2 since 1 year, building on a heated glass plate. Initially I was following the official hint and used the glue stick. Then I tried to print directly on the glass, which I cleaned with a mix of alcohol and water with a microfiber cleaning cloth before printing. PLA and PETG stick like hell - it's almost impossible to remove it from the glass, even after completely cooling down, and waiting for several hours. Inspired by your hint I sprayed my alcohol-water-mix onto the sticking parts. Miraculous! The liquid gets sucked between glass and plastique, it cracks like melting ice, and then you simply lift off the printed parts without applying any force.
@@ChristophLaimer You could also try putting a layer of masking tape on the surface.
very nice and interesting model. Nice job. Congrats.
omg i found the files on thingyverse and started prining and found this video
AWESOME MAN !!!
I was tested rotate gear o use hand
but its sometime stuck and gears waste
What will i doing now?
i am in the process of making this but i dont know what kind of axis and screws i need, can anyone help me with getting the right ones for the print? i would really appreciate it.
Printer is "Rapman 3.2" - technology to print watches for giants ;-) ... Maybe the reason, why this printer is no longer manufactured.
Oh my god! This is amazing!
Hi Christoph, are you still available to give advice on your clock.?
Amazing stuff!!
NOT-WORKING !!! All the people who wrote "wonderful" comments, did-not try to print it !!! I printed it (about 2 weeks of work !!!) but this clock is-not-working . i watched the mounting instructions very carefully, many times, second-after-second, but the assembled clock doesn't work. the video is too fast , i had to stop it many times, but the worse is that 16 printed parts are not in the video !!!
Really pleased I found your channel today! But I see the "garbage" as pieces for a sculptural moving mecanism imo Laurie
Nah, that's not a box of crap. That's a box with 100 ways not to make a 3d printed clock inside ;)
How well dose it keep time?
tested 30 minutes with my smartphone. the seconds-ticks-sound was still in synch then
that is so amazing and cool and it works
How did you model this in Blender? I can't even imagine. Then again, I'm a newbie to Blender. Nice work, thanks for sharing :)
Great job man 👍
Great work and thanks for sharing! Very cool!!
this is amazing
I have spent many hours printing this clock, but I have a problem with the balance wheel.
it appears that this has some kind of weight in this part.
I have no experience with clocks but understand the assembly.
Any help with this would be much appreciated.
I have made it. It works with planetary drum V1 and 2 kilos of weight but when it counts 1 minute the real time is 1minute and 20 seconds. I change weight to 1,5 kilo until 3 kilos but the loss of time is the same. I think I have to change the spring of the balance wheel, but I dont know what to do exactly. Any ideas?
How do you set the time? Do you just set it before you add the weight?
Thanks for such a great project.🥰 It will be a great birthday present, but I can print all parts 50% smaller so that the model has shrunk by half ? Sorry my english is not that good (Germany) 😅
Almost finished this print well done on your work.. excellent stuff
Great Job!!!
I'm curious on the 2 hr run time, could it be extended with a heavier weight and a more sophisticated block and tackle setup?
Amazing work! I will give it a try some day :)
just amazing !
i Love this! im down loading blender as we speak to attempt to export it out to STL so i can try and print it, ill keep you posted on how i go.
Any success? Did you see "tbbroder"s recent comment? He was finally able to make it running.
so i had to scale it 10% smaller to allow it to fit on the UP plus 2 printer im using ive printed out 90% of it im having issues with the clock face though i might have to redraw it, which is no big issue, so i hope with in the next few days ill start assembly every thing looks ok im slightly worried the parts might be too thin, but time will tell :)
also im starting to mock assemble it why i print out the trommel and im finding your bleander cad is slightly differnt to the one you are assembling in the vid
***** The blender file contains also the ratchet version (actually there are even two ratchet versions with a different transmission ratio to play with different wheigths). The pieces are just invisible. You will them find all in the Scene-Tree containing "Trommel" in their name. You can make them visible by clicking on the little eye-symbol.
***** Cool, thingiverse! Didn't know. I've uploaded the blender files there, but not yet STL. If I find some time, I'll maybe create a "clean" project.
creative you are , good job
Can anyone help with the gears and pins.
I think there are extra gears.
The video is fast and can not understand.
I love your clock(don't hide the "l") Wonder where can I buy those pins and screws
Superb! Thank you so much for sharing!
pretty nice job here, and seems very educative to do :)
Hope you'll find a way to make the working time go a little longer ;)
Wel done anyway and thanks for the video ;)
very cool
Great work! simply amazing i'm thinking maybe can a motor be added to the system in order to make it run longer?
i have printed and built the clock, looks wonderful but, am having trouble making it tick. Any idea how much weight you added to the escapement balance? and what positions. looks like something at top, bottom, left and right?
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing
Why isn't this applied to a watch movement? I would pay a lot if someone could design me an automatic 3D printed ABS plastic watch movement.