Reply With QuoteCrude but effective, very good :D
This winder is a workshop tool, not a thing of beauty:
It's made using stuff that I had lying around. Power comes from an old mobile phone charger. Case is made from alloy sheet. Centre hub is an old clock spring barrel. Arm shafts were turned from steel rod.
It can hold up to 15 watches, 3 on each arm. The arms are 2" diameter foam paint rollers - the only parts that I bought specifically for this project.
The gearbox uses a mixture of clock parts and nylon gears from an ATM. The motor has a built-in gearbox - again, from an ATM. The main bearings are from an old RC car.
The timer module runs the winder for 2 hours a day, reversing 6 times an hour. It's powered by a quartz wall clock movement. The bottom disk rotates once an hour and triggers the reversing switches. The top disk rotates once a day, and triggers the on/off switch.
Crude but effective, very good :D
"I looked with pity not untinged with scorn upon these trivial-minded passers-by"
Not a beauty but yet lovely :wink:
I don't know if it works, but it's a thing of beauty! :mrgreen:
I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
I can see my wife's face now as I pop that on the dressing table........ :lol:
very innovative - I like it :)
whats the watch on the top? is it a mkii of some sort?
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
It's a Kronos. I don't know much about it, except it's an ETA 2824-2 movement. Bought it secondhand on this forum a month or two ago.
Very creative!!
It is not marble and mahogany, but it gets the job done! :)
- Morten
I would definitely recommend that you enter it in Robot Wars.... :lol:
It could be called The Side Winder? Or the Time Machine? The Revolver?
Any more :?:
Originally Posted by clockworks
I think it looks lovely.
What a tool :mrgreen:
Nice! I wish I had a workshop :(
It's not a "proper" workshop, just a spare bedroom with 3 benches and plenty of storage space.
Really creative and amazing. Love it!
I want one!
:lol: :lol: :lol: Great watchwinder!
I never new MacGyver was a WIS :wink:
Fair play, a simple solution that does the job.
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