Does anyone know of a clock club on line that is for building wooden clock and repairs. etc?

 

Preston
 

What you got on your mind Preston? I have built lots of clocks and I carry a 6 foot 2 x 4 around in my pocket for protection so how can we help?

I have  bezels that have 3 prongs. You drill 3 corasponding holes on the edge of the clock dial in the clock. I know there is a template but where. I guess I'll try and make my own. Klockit is a clock site yhat has everything for clocks.

 

Thank smalloatch

 

Preston

If you are talking about mounting the dial and bezel to the wood with three the small holes that takes the very small pin nails, I know of no templet, its guess work.. I use a micrometer to measure the pins then drill pilot holes. Or else they will get bent all to heck trying to get them all the way in...The drill bit I use is in the 60 to 80 number bits... and any of these is about the size of a hair. Just measure the size of the nail then choose the drill bit a hair smaller or even the same size and use a smidgen of glue..

   Use to the glass and frame was mounted on a hinge but they got cheaper and did away with the hinge and now the glass bezel sets are press fitted over the ring and dial that will be permanently mounted on the wood.

  I would suggest where ever you get your movements you need to buy the hands from the same supplier for the hands have different sized holes and will only work on certain movements....If you stick to one supplier like Klockit and order the hands at the same times as the hands since the hands are free with each movement so you know they will fit like they should...

  I like to use a second hand on my movements for I think it gives that expensive look????

   Can you explain more about having to use a templet? Since I have never used something like that I am lost!

Some times I find clock dials on line, then send the picture to my computer and have Rapid Resizer print out the exact size dial that I need to fit the area on the wood I am building. The printer paper I use often is gloss portrait paper.

  If you buy the Atomic movement it is a good idea to glue the movement in to place so it won't move around when you have to change batteries...When the batteries run down all you have to do is replace the battery and it will go to the exact time.  There is no way to set the hands so gluing gluing the movement to the wood is the only way to know the hands will go where the correct time is. Daylight savings time, the movement will set its self automatically. The signal the movement uses comes from Colo... and my shop is metal and I have to bring the clock in to the house for it to pick up the signal to start and set its self.

 

Mark the three points on a paper and then use a compass to to find the center of the points.  Might take some fiddling but should be doable.  The three points will be fixed and that is the important part.  Center can be off a smidgen.