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  • 7 December 2017 at 00:02 #330813
    Patty Gibb
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      I have joined on behalf of my father 87 year old father. He has two projects he is keen to complete. A clock and a beam engine. He completed the clock in 2000 using plans from a 1999 issue of ME magazine. He has misplaced the plans and broken a piece of the clock mechanism. The beam engine was started maybe 20 years ago and was not far from completion to the best of my recollection in 2007 when he moved house. The engine then had to be mothballed due to his duties as carer for my mother. We need a copy of the plans for the clock and possibly help getting kick started again with the engine. We are in Chelmsford. Any suggestions?

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      7 December 2017 at 00:02 #40222
      Patty Gibb
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        Clock and Beam Engine

        7 December 2017 at 08:42 #330836
        Neil Wyatt
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          Hello Patty,

          Is this the John Wilding clock that started off as an 'egg timer' design then got upgraded with a 'daisy wheel' motion – the flower-like wheel in the middle should be obvious if it is.

          If you put photos of the clock and engine into a folder that will help us identify them.

          Neil

          7 December 2017 at 08:59 #330838
          Patty Gibb
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            clock side 2.jpeg

            clock face.jpeg

            pendulum clock.jpg

            clock side 1.jpeg

            7 December 2017 at 10:26 #330852
            Michael Gilligan
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              Posted by Neil Wyatt on 07/12/2017 08:42:06:

              Hello Patty,

              Is this the John Wilding clock that started off as an 'egg timer' design then got upgraded with a 'daisy wheel' motion – the flower-like wheel in the middle should be obvious if it is.

              .

              Having seen the photos … it looks like the 3/4 second electro-mechanical clock

              See Tony Jeffree's page **LINK** for some useful notes.

              http://www.jeffree.co.uk/modelengineering.html

              MichaelG.

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