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    Re: Technic Pendulum Clock progress —Amnon Silverstein
   I finally got my clock to run for a solid 24 hours (plus only a few more minutes until the weights hit the floor.). It ran the whole period non-stop, and I didn't touch it until it finished its run. It was 15 minutes slow by the end of this period, (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: Technic Pendulum Clock progress —Chris Daniel
    (...) I set up a winder for a spool, I used a worm gear with a 1/5 ratio to the spool when you wind the wheight the string travels down the spool evenly. I got the idea from a hose winder. but unlike a hose winder the lego spool does not travel up (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)
   
        Re: Technic Pendulum Clock progress —Ross Crawford
   You could have 2 worm gears side by side turning in opposite directions and have a bar below that which pushes the string against one or the other in turn. I looked at this for my crane spooler, but couldn't get it to work neatly because of the high (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)
 

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