I have been doing this for 25 years and have resisted using a motor to drive the wooden clock designs until now. I have 58 clock designs and devising something new and exciting is getting hard then it occurred to me that I could design a simple clock with very few parts that could almost be built in a weekend if I incorporated a Quartz motor to drive the minute’s hand and conventional gearing in wood for the rest. This would allow anyone to try their hand without embarking on a month-long project. So Clock 59 is just that, simple, with few parts, can be made by hand tools, CNC or 3D Printed and is really accurate and runs for months on a single AA battery.
DXF files, and the STL and STP files that can be used with your CNC machine can be downloaded here for $26. You also get the unrestricted version of the PDF files that can be printed at full size.
Drawings for this clock in PDF format can be downloaded here. These free files are low resolution and not to scale and only a sample of the full set that comes in the paid for version. Clicking here will download the PDF file directly to your browser, may take a few moments so please be patient.
A sample of the Instructions for assembling the clock components.
To print only a single item of the drawing to scale using Adobe Acrobat Reader, do the following:
Go to Edit, then click on Take a snapshot, move the cursor to the top left of the item you want to print and hold down the left mouse button whilst you drag a box around the item. The inside of the box turns blue and you can now go to File and then click on Print. This brings up the print dialogue, make sure Selected graphic is selected and that the Page scaling is set to None and the click on OK. As long as your printer is connected you will have printed the item at size. Do this for each item you want to cut out.
A sample from the DXF file – the file is purposely low resolution, with no vector data. The actual files purchased above are included on one large sheet so that they may be directly loaded into your CAM program.
