On 4/20/15 12:59 AM, Attila Kinali wrote:
Moin,
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 00:40:06 -0700
"Tom Van Baak" <[email protected]> wrote:
Mechanical, yes. Home brew, no. It is an absolutely stunning clock,
both in beauty and performance.
Given the fact that a CNC milling machine can be bought quite cheaply
today, i would say that homebrew is easily possible. All you need
is a good understanding on different materials and how to machine them.
(This can be aquired using various machining books out there)
I don't know about that.. I suspect that more than a CNC mill is
required: there's often a lot of craft and art in precision machinery
(like optical systems). There's a lot of craft in high performance
quartz oscillators: selecting the crystal, mounting it in a holder so
that it doesn't see untoward stresses, doing the seals, etc.
Certainly, a CNC makes a lot of the fabrication easier, and the fact
that you can mail order CNC parts is even cooler. Front Panel Express,
for instance, is a great way to make breadboard plates for connectorized
modular RF components. It's what I use after I decide that double stick
foam tape isn't appropriate any more.
But for things like threads and helices, your standard CNC isn't going
to do it.
And I suspect the machining of the gears might have been done in a
special way (other than a dividing table). For these kinds of high
precision applications, there's a lot of tricks in getting all the
periodic errors to cancel out:essentially to make the system precision
higher than some of the manufacturing steps.
Look at the ruling engines used to make diffraction gratings for instance.
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