case for eight day clock

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

Adrian I am very pleased to see your article re building a long clock case in the latest Model Engineer Could I ask you for a materials list of the timber used

As a further comment I realise that the case has been dimentioned using CAD

but isn't 5.6875" and 0.5625" a little bit ambitious in wood ?

Roy

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Not for JS. See the drill grinding jig thread for his experience in a piano making factory.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by roy entwistle on 10/06/2014 09:01:17:

but isn't 5.6875" and 0.5625" a little bit ambitious in wood ?

.

Not if you have a ruler calibrated in sixteenths

MichaelG.

[Bob Brown 1Participant @bobbrown1]

And good eyesight or a big magnifying glass

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Get within 1/4" and in weather like the past week it will spend some time exactly on size

Neil

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

It might be a mental thing but I can work with 0.0625 in metal I can probably work with 1/16th in wood but to my mind 0.0625 is exact whereas 1/16 is about right

Roy ( I'm bringing tolerances up again aren't I ? )

[julian atkinsParticipant @julianatkins58923]

roy,

i hope you never make a set of dovetail joints with 1/16" tolerance! wont be much of a decent joint!

cheers,

julian

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