So badass! Really great explanation of gear ratios and torque. I've never done a clock project like this, but I might have to give it a shot now. Awesome.
About 12 years ago I looked around online to try and buy a clock kit because I wanted to make something like this. It did not exist. So I decided to build my own. Now these clocks are everywhere. It's so exciting to see so many peoples different ideas on how to make them. Especially with 3d printing now the designs are endless. You did a great job of explaining the different types of escapements and explaining the gear ratios. I so wish this video was around 12 years ago when I started searching. Keep up the great work.
This week I bought the plans for this clock, printed the parts on a Prusa MK4S which only took less than 24 hours. Assembly is easy, as long as you are precise. However, making sure the clock ticks continuously, took a little bit longer than I expected (few hours), but eventually it runs. It's definitely worth the money for the plans. I also like that this clock runs 100% mechanically, instead of battery powered. And you learn a lot regarding gears, ratio and the mechanisme of a clock. Great model and a Fantastic from the Designer @Engineezy!
Amen to that. I found tinkercad to be a good tool to learn one. It seemed very limited in capability but after experimenting on multiple gear designs I discovered some real
I feel nothing but fully impressed. You are an amazing mechanical engineer and artist. I have watched several videos on how watch works, none of them explain better than you
I've been thinking about accuracy the whole time of watching this video and when you showed the screw thread on the pendulum is just so satisfying. What a great build and nice video
Wow, what a cool design; I’m gonna make one of these for my workshop! One minor point: If the clock is running fast, I’d think you’d want to move the pendulum weight down, to increase the period of the pendulum swing, no? Super work and a beautiful-looking design!
This is by far the best and most concise video I've seen explaining the various escapements and how a pendulum clock actually works. I really want to give this a try. Thanks so much for posting, excellent!
Thanks for not just explaining the printing but the great mechanics behind such a "simple" thing like a clock. We should respect the great little inventions that took us to precise mechanic clocks.
Thank you so much, Jay. I find joy watching all your creations. It feels like the childhood that was missing. Really appreciate that you are sharing all these with us. Keep enjoying and creating! ❤🙏
I'm happy to see you tackle clocks, I've been working on a fully radial/symmetric, triple escapement system with an inverted escapement wheel for the better part of a year now It's nice to see others tackling similar mechanisms.
I’ve been really enjoying this series, Jay, and this is a great finale video 🙂 Couple of requests/ideas for standalone ‘how to’ videos: - how are you modelling gears? I’ve found ways, but not yet figured out a good easy way I’m happy with - your prints look really smooth - an overview of materials/techniques would be great - how do you deal with clearance, especially accounting for different printers?
When I was a kid there was a book at the bookstore, that was actually a paper clock kit. I always wanted it, parents always said no. It had pages of the same gear shapes, and you were supposed to cut them out, and glue them on top of each other in layers, until you had a gear rigid enough for a clock mechanism. I always thought it was a neat idea. I doubt 8 year old me could have completed the clock, though.
Outrageously good explanation, very clean video, one can tell that you not only understand the topic very well but you also understand how to structure and explain the information clearly. Keep doing your thing, I'm subscribed!
very nice profund explanations.I once had a company, making mechanical clocks by wood which was a big success. Perhaps i will print our top model exactly 1:1 or with small modifications. One important point is lifetime, where i have a big doubt if printed parts can compete.Our experience of our clocks is more than 30 years and they are still in use. Very nice engineering and presentation.
Just a tip for gear wear and longevity. It's best for a gear to not have tooth count that are multiply or factor of the other gear's tooth count that it is meshing with. This will promote even wear and minimize weak spot.
Ideally, the numbers of teeth on the two gears should be "coprime", meaning that their greatest common divisor is equal to 1. This allows every tooth to mesh with every other tooth an equal number of times, causing all the teeth to approach their final "broken in" shape at the same rate.
Could you upload a normal speed video of this running for like an hour or two? I’d love to have this just clicking on in the background. Maybe a JBV Creative Extra’s channel or something.
Fantastic work! I've heard many of these timepiece terms before but this does a great job in defining them visually for me. Appreciate the content. Gained a new subscriber 🙂
I'm naturally thinking about Thomas Jefferson's Great Clock that used cannonball weights. But, he had to cut holes in his floor to get it to run multiple days. The retrograde minute display is a really nice touch.
It's astonishing to me that you don't have millions of subs. Since subscribing, each time you post a video there's always something unique & even more interesting than the last.
I am currently saving up money to get a 3-D printer, and it is going to be the Bambu Labs X1 Carbon, when I do get this new printer I am going to probably try to print your clock so I can put it above my 3-D printer or in my room somewhere! I really love how it looks and how you can tell time with it! It is also really cool how you explained the escapement mechanism, it makes complete sense when I listen to you explain it very clearly. I love your clock, and I will try printing it love your videos man. You should do another video like this!
$7 for an STL is a steal. But I would pay $200+ to follow you in an instructional video series stepping me through how to make one of these in a CAD program.
I dont know if I ever will be able print this, but this is the content why I have YT subcriptions, and I will buy the model from your site! Amazing, than you!
Another thing you can do to increase the run time of the clock that doesn’t involve adding more string and elevating the clock higher and higher is to add additional gear mechanisms for days or weeks or even months and use a reduction gear to provide the torque to keep the clock running without increasing the weight used. Meaning its possible to make a clock that runs for an entire year off of a single wind up.
So cool, looks like so much fun to make! It’s obvious you have a joy for thoughtful building! I bet this project really took some time to make, hahaha!! Get it!! Great great video and thank you for sharing
Hey JBV!!!! I have an idea!!! you should make a chime of some kind. you could make it easy like just hitting a little bell with the minute hand every hour when it resets. Or you could make it your next serious project and design a wall mounted full chime that can ding once for every hour shown on the clock.
Idea for the minute face, leave a line for each quarter phase and a dot for each 5-minute phase, it should read (0| • • | • • | • • | • • |60), or use a bold dot for the quarter and a small dot for the 5s, reading (0• · · • · · • · · • · · •60)
I love clocks. I have so many mechanical ideas that (because I wish to don't question) forbids electromagnetism. So gears springs and such only. (The genre is clockpunk ik)
I'm between jobs and when I saw this video title I felt so happy that I finally find gift for my friend that won't cost me much, but then I found out you charge for design. It immediately changed my mood back to my depressed normal :D not saying you're doing anything wrong... I just had need to tell world about my mood swings when I saw your video :)
Earlier i was thinking about how doors with those boxes and arms attached to close themselfs probably see a lot of use. I was kept awake thinking you can probably link the wind up components of a clock like this to a door that sees alot of use so it can consistently be wound passively.
In the video you said: "If your clock is running to fast, rise the pendulum. If it's running to slow lower it down" This is a mistake. Making the center of pendulum mass lower makes pendulum oscilation slower, and making it higher makes it faster.
I’m so glad you did this project! Have you seen the videos of real Lego clocks? I actually built one before that runs for days on real time. The tolerances for friction and the structure are very small just like the 3D printed parts!
0:28 minor thing but the analog to the potential energy stored by the weight+height would be the energy in the battery, not the power provided by the motor
Hey mate great work. To reduce the weight required (increase torque), use a larger diameter pulley. You’d need a longer line and a longer drop though (if clock is upstairs, cut a hole thru the floor for the weight😂)
If you're not sick of clocks yet, lol, have you seen that "medieval rack clock" design? Great designs man thanks for explaining everything too, cheers.
See Seiko's Tri-synchro Regulator system in their Spring Drive wristwatch movements. The escapement is replaced with a "glide wheel" which has an electronically controlled electromagnetic brake to maintain the speed of the glide wheel. There are no batteries in the watch, the mechanical spring generates sufficient power at the glide wheel to power the electronics and the brake. Maybe the concept could be applied to a 3D printed mechanical clock. Accuracy to ± 1 second per day in the Seiko.
So badass! Really great explanation of gear ratios and torque. I've never done a clock project like this, but I might have to give it a shot now. Awesome.
Thanks Tom, definitely a fun endeavor!
You honestly should, I would assume doing something like this would be really fun
About 12 years ago I looked around online to try and buy a clock kit because I wanted to make something like this. It did not exist. So I decided to build my own. Now these clocks are everywhere. It's so exciting to see so many peoples different ideas on how to make them. Especially with 3d printing now the designs are endless. You did a great job of explaining the different types of escapements and explaining the gear ratios. I so wish this video was around 12 years ago when I started searching. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Appreciate you watching
This escapement series has been so fun and exciting to follow all this while! It looks so cool all together!
Thanks for sticking around for the whole thing! Glad you enjoyed :)
Yeah 👌
I love all the different unique sounds the escapement mechanisms make 🤩🤩🤩
So satisfying eh
This week I bought the plans for this clock, printed the parts on a Prusa MK4S which only took less than 24 hours. Assembly is easy, as long as you are precise. However, making sure the clock ticks continuously, took a little bit longer than I expected (few hours), but eventually it runs. It's definitely worth the money for the plans. I also like that this clock runs 100% mechanically, instead of battery powered. And you learn a lot regarding gears, ratio and the mechanisme of a clock. Great model and a Fantastic from the Designer @Engineezy!
I'm not sure if I should love or hate this, because now you've got me trying to learn CAD...
Its such a useful skill- you might hate this in the short term, love it in the long term 😀
Amen to that. I found tinkercad to be a good tool to learn one. It seemed very limited in capability but after experimenting on multiple gear designs I discovered some real
Your work is not only original but also awesome. Thank You.
Thanks John!
I feel nothing but fully impressed. You are an amazing mechanical engineer and artist. I have watched several videos on how watch works, none of them explain better than you
I've been thinking about accuracy the whole time of watching this video and when you showed the screw thread on the pendulum is just so satisfying. What a great build and nice video
Thank you!!
I'd love to see more detail on how to design some of the escapements in detail. Like the gear teeth or escapement teeth in SOLIDWORKS.
Noted! Maybe in the future! Cheers :)
Look for videos by Jacque Favre. He has a walkthrough in Fusion 360 and another in FreeCad.
Wow, what a cool design; I’m gonna make one of these for my workshop!
One minor point: If the clock is running fast, I’d think you’d want to move the pendulum weight down, to increase the period of the pendulum swing, no?
Super work and a beautiful-looking design!
Yes! I mixed it up in the vid 😬 thank you
This is by far the best and most concise video I've seen explaining the various escapements and how a pendulum clock actually works. I really want to give this a try. Thanks so much for posting, excellent!
This is seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for not just explaining the printing but the great mechanics behind such a "simple" thing like a clock. We should respect the great little inventions that took us to precise mechanic clocks.
Thanks for watching and appreciating 👊👊
Thank you so much, Jay. I find joy watching all your creations. It feels like the childhood that was missing.
Really appreciate that you are sharing all these with us. Keep enjoying and creating! ❤🙏
Glad you can enjoy! Thank you, I will 😀
this video completely demystified mechanical clocks for me. Thank you very, very much!! I finally get it!!!
Thank you so much for not rushing of the different types of escapements
I'm happy to see you tackle clocks, I've been working on a fully radial/symmetric, triple escapement system with an inverted escapement wheel for the better part of a year now It's nice to see others tackling similar mechanisms.
Awesome! Good luck with the design!
@@Engineezy If you're interested I also work in fusion, I can send you my current progress for inspiration.
One of the best explanations of the time keeping mechanics I've seen yet.
I’ve been really enjoying this series, Jay, and this is a great finale video 🙂
Couple of requests/ideas for standalone ‘how to’ videos:
- how are you modelling gears? I’ve found ways, but not yet figured out a good easy way I’m happy with
- your prints look really smooth - an overview of materials/techniques would be great
- how do you deal with clearance, especially accounting for different printers?
I appreciate you watching! And the video ideas :) Cheers
When I was a kid there was a book at the bookstore, that was actually a paper clock kit. I always wanted it, parents always said no. It had pages of the same gear shapes, and you were supposed to cut them out, and glue them on top of each other in layers, until you had a gear rigid enough for a clock mechanism. I always thought it was a neat idea. I doubt 8 year old me could have completed the clock, though.
This is the coolest project for 3D printers. Purchasing the model and starting on this immediately.
Can you partner with bambu to make a kit
Yaaa pls do ittt
Omg I need these clocks ❤
You forgot the question mark
Dude! Outstanding. As soon as my printer gets here I will be making your clock. Thanks so much for this video.
Thanks Joseph! Happy printing 😀
Speaking from a mechanical engineering viewpoint, you’re brilliant!
I was thrilled watching this, and then you added the “flyback” complication. So cool!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Which escapement gives the most satisfying tic-toc?
Im 🤯 Clocks and watches are 👌🏻 Thank you so much for showing each design and breaking it down. Thats why Every clock has a distinct sound. 😎 Awesome!
Outrageously good explanation, very clean video, one can tell that you not only understand the topic very well but you also understand how to structure and explain the information clearly.
Keep doing your thing, I'm subscribed!
Thanks for this masterpiece! You´ve matched the perfect ratio of entertainment and informations, really enjoyed those 9 1/2 minutes
So glad you enjoyed it!
Dude stoked to see this all come together! Great job and beautiful design
Thanks G!!
very nice profund explanations.I once had a company, making mechanical clocks by wood which was a big success. Perhaps i will print our top model exactly 1:1 or with small modifications. One important point is lifetime, where i have a big doubt if printed parts can compete.Our experience of our clocks is more than 30 years and they are still in use.
Very nice engineering and presentation.
Just a tip for gear wear and longevity. It's best for a gear to not have tooth count that are multiply or factor of the other gear's tooth count that it is meshing with. This will promote even wear and minimize weak spot.
Ideally, the numbers of teeth on the two gears should be "coprime", meaning that their greatest common divisor is equal to 1. This allows every tooth to mesh with every other tooth an equal number of times, causing all the teeth to approach their final "broken in" shape at the same rate.
This is my Christmas break project. Super excited to print and assemble.
Awesome! Enjoy :) Happy holidays!
Could you upload a normal speed video of this running for like an hour or two?
I’d love to have this just clicking on in the background.
Maybe a JBV Creative Extra’s channel or something.
Haha I will see what I can do!
Fantastic work! I've heard many of these timepiece terms before but this does a great job in defining them visually for me. Appreciate the content. Gained a new subscriber 🙂
Thanks Andy!!
Fantastic, I've purchased your files and my wife will love the resulting clock. Next step figuring our which color pla to use.
Appreciate your support 👊👊
That minute hand is Awesome! Well done!
Thank you!
Just purchased the file and about to start printing on my Bambu X1! Your channel is awesome 👏🏽
Thanks Logan! Enjoy the build!
found my new youtube rabbit hole. This content is incredible.
Thank you! Glad you can appreciate :)
Awesome project! Nice and interesting video!
Thank you!
Great job Jay - been loving this content on clocks and escapements!!
Glad you've enjoyed it Toby!
Your videos are always a pleasure to watch.
Wow that’s one way of making a mechanical clock! Very cool
Thank you!
Oh wow! I didn’t even realize this was finished!! I need to make one!
🙌🙌
That's awesome! So much thought and work must have gone into the project.
Thank you! Soo much 🥵🥵
I'm naturally thinking about Thomas Jefferson's Great Clock that used cannonball weights. But, he had to cut holes in his floor to get it to run multiple days.
The retrograde minute display is a really nice touch.
Definitely a similar vibe! Thank you 👊
I plan to start my own mechanical watch company and I know soon, I will offer special thanks to you
Amazing! Looking forward to seeing it!
It's astonishing to me that you don't have millions of subs. Since subscribing, each time you post a video there's always something unique & even more interesting than the last.
Appreciate it 👊👊
You have it backwards. You lower the weight to make it run slower and raise the weight to make it run faster. Great job on the clock.
You should try to make a 24hr mechanical clock
I am currently saving up money to get a 3-D printer, and it is going to be the Bambu Labs X1 Carbon, when I do get this new printer I am going to probably try to print your clock so I can put it above my 3-D printer or in my room somewhere! I really love how it looks and how you can tell time with it! It is also really cool how you explained the escapement mechanism, it makes complete sense when I listen to you explain it very clearly. I love your clock, and I will try printing it love your videos man. You should do another video like this!
Glad you enjoyed this :) happy printing!
I Can't imagine How many times he had to re-print a piece or How many hours he spent srudying the Clocks mechanism.
I respect this video!
$7 for an STL is a steal.
But I would pay $200+ to follow you in an instructional video series stepping me through how to make one of these in a CAD program.
One day!
This is, like, BEAUTY! I really love it! This is awesome!
Thank you!!
I dont know if I ever will be able print this, but this is the content why I have YT subcriptions, and I will buy the model from your site! Amazing, than you!
Appreciate it!! 👊👊👊
so cool! (p.s. I'm assembling the marble escarpment now)
Thanks Steven! Let me know how it turns out!
Dude this is god dam amazing! great work. I've never 3D printed anything but I have access to some printers and I've always wanted a clock like this!
Thank you!!
Me actually understanding what is going on as he’s explaining it only too see the outro of a Timelapse of the clock and be like “yeah no”
😂😂
Another thing you can do to increase the run time of the clock that doesn’t involve adding more string and elevating the clock higher and higher is to add additional gear mechanisms for days or weeks or even months and use a reduction gear to provide the torque to keep the clock running without increasing the weight used. Meaning its possible to make a clock that runs for an entire year off of a single wind up.
That would be sick! Gonna have to try that on the next one
That minute hand is a nice retro touch
🤓
i love watching the shorts as you progressed on this, it's amazing to see the full vid out now
Thanks for watching the whole series! Cheers :)
Any more clock designs coming soon? It would be awesome to see some of your escarpments in an entire clock.
Actually working on something for my next video! But I don’t think it will be what you’re expecting 😁
So cool, looks like so much fun to make! It’s obvious you have a joy for thoughtful building!
I bet this project really took some time to make, hahaha!! Get it!!
Great great video and thank you for sharing
😂😂😂 thanks Joshua!
Hey JBV!!!! I have an idea!!! you should make a chime of some kind. you could make it easy like just hitting a little bell with the minute hand every hour when it resets. Or you could make it your next serious project and design a wall mounted full chime that can ding once for every hour shown on the clock.
i bought your design and i love it. but i miss the chime.
I challenge you to add one!
that was a treat, those escapements are incredibly creative.
Thanks Jay! Great name btw
@@Engineezy yours too! it's not bias either, it's just plain fact.
Brilliant. Saw an exhibit at the British Museum on the history of clocks. This would fit in well. 🙂
Haha definitely could 😀
Idea for the minute face, leave a line for each quarter phase and a dot for each 5-minute phase, it should read (0| • • | • • | • • | • • |60), or use a bold dot for the quarter and a small dot for the 5s, reading (0• · · • · · • · · • · · •60)
Great clock. Clocks are tricky things to make.
This was a very useful video. I appreciate the tips! The brass insert was particularly useful.
🙏🙏
I would put a little bell on the zero-minute that way when the dial snaps back, you get a chime for the hour.
Great idea!
I love clocks. I have so many mechanical ideas that (because I wish to don't question) forbids electromagnetism. So gears springs and such only. (The genre is clockpunk ik)
this is like the "3d print a gun" thing. very interesting, i cant wait to see what people try to 3d print next.
It would be fun to add chimes to your next version if you make one.
I'm between jobs and when I saw this video title I felt so happy that I finally find gift for my friend that won't cost me much, but then I found out you charge for design. It immediately changed my mood back to my depressed normal :D
not saying you're doing anything wrong... I just had need to tell world about my mood swings when I saw your video :)
BRUH WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE A COURSE ABOUT THIS!! THIS IS SOO COOL!!
One day! Haha
Awesome project. Nicely done!
Thank you!!
Earlier i was thinking about how doors with those boxes and arms attached to close themselfs probably see a lot of use. I was kept awake thinking you can probably link the wind up components of a clock like this to a door that sees alot of use so it can consistently be wound passively.
Sir.. you are a MASTER! Well done!
Thank you!!
that's a really neat project - good job
Thank you!!
Absolutely incredible
🙏🙏🙏
In the video you said: "If your clock is running to fast, rise the pendulum. If it's running to slow lower it down" This is a mistake. Making the center of pendulum mass lower makes pendulum oscilation slower, and making it higher makes it faster.
Great job! I like the explanations & the numerical dials at the end
Thank you!
I’m so glad you did this project! Have you seen the videos of real Lego clocks? I actually built one before that runs for days on real time. The tolerances for friction and the structure are very small just like the 3D printed parts!
Thats awesome!
You can even add a hammer to the minute hand mechanism and a bell to the frame so it chimes every hour
Man I wish I had one of these this is amazing
0:28 minor thing but the analog to the potential energy stored by the weight+height would be the energy in the battery, not the power provided by the motor
8:27 the clock you made reminds me of Time Piece from Castlevania symphony of the Night.
Thank you very much for your demonstration and explanation!
Glad you enjoyed!
You just got me into 3D printing
LFG
Magnificent ... I 'll made mine , superb . Greetings from Peru arequipa
🙏🙏🙏
Hey mate great work. To reduce the weight required (increase torque), use a larger diameter pulley. You’d need a longer line and a longer drop though (if clock is upstairs, cut a hole thru the floor for the weight😂)
😂😂
Wow, super cool use for 3d printing
🙌🙌👊👊
You nailed it mn! Awesome clock
Thank you!
If you're not sick of clocks yet, lol, have you seen that "medieval rack clock" design?
Great designs man thanks for explaining everything too, cheers.
Sure have! That was the inspiration for the retrograde complication!
See Seiko's Tri-synchro Regulator system in their Spring Drive wristwatch movements. The escapement is replaced with a "glide wheel" which has an electronically controlled electromagnetic brake to maintain the speed of the glide wheel. There are no batteries in the watch, the mechanical spring generates sufficient power at the glide wheel to power the electronics and the brake. Maybe the concept could be applied to a 3D printed mechanical clock. Accuracy to ± 1 second per day in the Seiko.
awesome video, keep up the good work
Thanks Dennis!
The Most Bazar CLOCK & Amazing 1:29 😸
Thats very cool, well done
Thank you!
These are super impressive
Thank you!
You should add a complication to it where the minute hand resetting every hour rings a bell