Spindles finished
The final piece of mechanical engineering on the clock was the spindles. As previously mentioned I had a couple of different ideas on how these might work. I went with something roughtly like my second spindle design and that’s worked
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Clock PCB mounting
My plan to mount the printed circuit board onto the back of the clock was to use some screwed PCB mounts which were screwed onto double threaded woodscrews fixed into the back of the clock. I chopped the end of
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Materials: Sugru
Tags: pcb
Flea Finalist
My flea made it to the final of the Metal Masterpiece competition Post by The Metal Store UK.
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Tags: flea sculpture
Sheetmetal shears failure
Sheetmetal working is something that I’ve recently taken an interest in. A gift from work gained me a few pieces of equipment to allow me to expand my skills in this area. One of these is a small set of
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Tags: cutting, Sheetmetal, Tools
Shortening the screws
So that the Topsy Turvy Clock has a good finish I decided to trim some of the brass screws so that they would be flush with the plates rather than sticking up proud. To facilitate this process I made a
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Tags: Filing
Gate modification
We recently agreed to look after a relative’s dog for them and realised that we needed to make a few changes to accommodate the dog safely. One of these was making the back garden gate so that it would not
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Tags: Garden Furniture, Gate
Spacers
A simple but important part for the clock was the spaces that connect the two clock frames together. These were a simple machining job, brass rod was faced off and drilled with a 2.3mm drill. It was then parted off
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Materials: Brass
CapSense Switches
As a little side project, I’ve been looking at some capacitive touch switches and their suitability for workshop projects. Element14 and Cypress Semiconductors kindly provided me with an evaluation board for the CapSense MBR3 switches as part of the Element14
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Tags: switches
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
