Pins for a Blick Clock

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

I'm bringing and old Blick master clock back to life. The synchronous motor was completely beyond repair, so I've replaced it with a stepper and that is all working fine. What I want to do now is fit pins into the 24 hour wheel so it will ring bells (and drive senior management to distraction). The holes in the wheel are 12 BA, so I need to make 96 off about 10mm long with a short bit of thread. I can get 1.2mm TIG filler wire, which would be absolutel ideal, but could someone out there measure a bit and see how accurate it is? For it's intended purpose as filler it wouldn't matter if it was 0.1 up or down, but would make all the difference to a 12 BA thread

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Could you use bicycle spoke threaded ends and change the thread to suit ? Plenty of bike wheels down at the tip if you can get someone to look 'tuther way.
BobH

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Bike spokes seem to be too big diameter, I'm not fiddling about trying to turn them down.

Edited By duncan webster on 22/09/2018 15:01:24

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I know the 1.5mm rods are a bit big for 10BA, as I had to make a running down tool to convert some into studding.

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