{"id":113,"date":"2016-01-30T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/?p=113"},"modified":"2016-02-06T20:43:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T20:43:26","slug":"clock-number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/clock-number-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clock Number 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while (too long really) since I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/?p=20\" target=\"_blank\">blogged about the clock<\/a>. In that time, I&#8217;ve spent much time building, but not much time blogging. So here&#8217;s Clock number 2, which I built over the summer of 2015:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l323SPlQoGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A guy called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/BenVanDeWaal\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">Ben\u00a0van de Waal<\/a>\u00a0has a Youtube channel full of LEGO\u00a0escapement mechanisms. It appears he just does the escapement mechanisms, not the whole clock.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0clock uses one of Ben&#8217;s escapement mechanisms. I chose the mechanism that uses the 40-tooth gears, on the basis that it would give the least rotational motion, and thus the least travel of the string &#8230; which would result in a longer running time. That was the theory. This is what it looks like. In the working clock, this is all buried inside the frame.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clock1-escapement-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clock1-escapement-detail-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Clock1-escapement-detail\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clock1-escapement-detail-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clock1-escapement-detail-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clock1-escapement-detail-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Clock1-escapement-detail.jpg 1297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">In practice, this mechanism is very difficult to adjust correctly. The blue bar with the\u00a0pink &#8220;cheese&#8221; wedges on must be adjusted vertically on the axle by a tiny fraction of a millimetre &#8211; which is almost impossible to do in LEGO. The lesson I learned with this clock is that the teeth of LEGO gears are not the right shape for an escapement mechanism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the clock works, and it runs for about five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I also discovered a guy called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KEvronista\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">KEvronista<\/a>\u00a0on Youtube and he has made some stunning clocks in LEGO\u00a0too. Stand\u00a0with me in awe at the amazing clock mechanisms he has made.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while (too long really) since I blogged about the clock. In that time, I&#8217;ve spent much time building, but not much time blogging. So here&#8217;s Clock number 2, which I built over the summer of 2015: A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/clock-number-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[6,42,41,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wis.co.uk\/lego\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}