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Subject:	Re: New Clock Escapement Design
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic
Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:32:06 GMT
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Great! Simple yet effective. Duq P.S. Has Leo seen this? "Amnon Silverstein" <amnon@best.com> wrote in message news:G3KoJr.KM6@lugnet.com... > I came up with a simple way to make an escapement. This is the gizmo that > regulates a geartrain with a pendulum, and it is used in clocks. I saw a > very complicated escapement made of lego on the web > (http://carol.wins.uva.nl/~leo/lego/escapement.html). This guy built a • huge > ratchet out of a bunch of parts. It looked very complicated and hard to > build, but you could use it to make a mechanical clock (I saw one at: > http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/clock.html). Mine doesn't use a • ratchet, > and it only uses a few parts, and it could be used as the basis for a > mechanical clock. I have a picture and a movie of it in action: > http://www.best.com/~amnon/Homepage/Games/Lego/escapement.jpg > http://www.best.com/~amnon/Homepage/Games/Lego/escapement.avi

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		New Clock Escapement Design
I came up with a simple way to make an escapement. This is the gizmo that regulates a geartrain with a pendulum, and it is used in clocks. I saw a very complicated escapement made of lego on the web ((URL) This guy built a huge ratchet out of a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.technic)

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