2025-03-03

Last modified: 2025-03-03 21:59:24

• Clock
• Flywheel truck

Clock

It ran for about 3 hours based on the clockwatcher data. Again stopped with the remontoire completely unwound, and again wound up again after I tapped the frame.

So I think there are a couple of avenues here:

1. obviously increase the drive weight
2. reduce losses in the train (how?)
3. reduce power required to run the escapement, and therefore reduce remontoire weight

I think there are losses in the train due to misaligned bearings. If the bearings on a shaft don't point directly towards each other then there is some pressure against the races which will increase friction. So maybe the easiest thing to do is to make sure the bearings are aligned properly, or alternatively come up with a way to make them self-aligning.

Flywheel truck

I've made the wheels a bit smaller and further apart, to make the proportions a bit better.

Now with cut-outs for the gears to run in, and supports for the bearings:

Last step is to make it look more like a truck. Harder than it sounds.