Can you 3D Print a Mechanical Clock?

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Жыл бұрын

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This video explores how clocks work and whether or not you can 3D print a fully functioning mechanical clock.
The STL Files for the Clock and Escapement Mechanisms:
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Chapters:
0:06 - How Does a Clock Work?
1:09 - 10 Different Types of Escapements
3:18 - Escapement Selection for This Clock Design
4:02 - Gear Ratio Selection for A Clock
4:52 - Main Constraint Chosen for this Clock Design
5:38 - Torque and Gears
7:17 - Final Design Steps
8:06 - To Answer the Question, Can you 3D Print a Clock?
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@SayonR Жыл бұрын

This escapement series has been so fun and exciting to follow all this while! It looks so cool all together!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sticking around for the whole thing! Glad you enjoyed :)

@moji3812 11 ай бұрын

Yeah 👌

@tbren6707 Жыл бұрын

So badass! Really great explanation of gear ratios and torque. I've never done a clock project like this, but I might have to give it a shot now. Awesome.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tom, definitely a fun endeavor!

@gkgeze 5 ай бұрын

You honestly should, I would assume doing something like this would be really fun

@StevenJonWest Жыл бұрын

I love all the different unique sounds the escapement mechanisms make 🤩🤩🤩

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

So satisfying eh

@rampart1234 Жыл бұрын

Your work is not only original but also awesome. Thank You.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks John!

@y0utubeu5ername 10 ай бұрын

This is by far the best and most concise video I've seen explaining the various escapements and how a pendulum clock actually works. I really want to give this a try. Thanks so much for posting, excellent!

@jetw9522 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Jay. I find joy watching all your creations. It feels like the childhood that was missing. Really appreciate that you are sharing all these with us. Keep enjoying and creating! ❤🙏

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Glad you can enjoy! Thank you, I will 😀

@ultraslashism 10 ай бұрын

I feel nothing but fully impressed. You are an amazing mechanical engineer and artist. I have watched several videos on how watch works, none of them explain better than you

@Dglinski2 Жыл бұрын

Dude stoked to see this all come together! Great job and beautiful design

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks G!!

@setautomation Жыл бұрын

About 12 years ago I looked around online to try and buy a clock kit because I wanted to make something like this. It did not exist. So I decided to build my own. Now these clocks are everywhere. It's so exciting to see so many peoples different ideas on how to make them. Especially with 3d printing now the designs are endless. You did a great job of explaining the different types of escapements and explaining the gear ratios. I so wish this video was around 12 years ago when I started searching. Keep up the great work.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Appreciate you watching

@larshinrichsen6581 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for not just explaining the printing but the great mechanics behind such a "simple" thing like a clock. We should respect the great little inventions that took us to precise mechanic clocks.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and appreciating 👊👊

@AndyScott Жыл бұрын

Fantastic work! I've heard many of these timepiece terms before but this does a great job in defining them visually for me. Appreciate the content. Gained a new subscriber 🙂

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Andy!!

@megafonmann Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this masterpiece! You´ve matched the perfect ratio of entertainment and informations, really enjoyed those 9 1/2 minutes

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it!

@ezekielflores2149 5 ай бұрын

One of the best explanations of the time keeping mechanics I've seen yet.

@artart5404 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for not rushing of the different types of escapements

@mmmp1zza Жыл бұрын

I’ve been really enjoying this series, Jay, and this is a great finale video 🙂 Couple of requests/ideas for standalone ‘how to’ videos: - how are you modelling gears? I’ve found ways, but not yet figured out a good easy way I’m happy with - your prints look really smooth - an overview of materials/techniques would be great - how do you deal with clearance, especially accounting for different printers?

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you watching! And the video ideas :) Cheers

@adamhaziqsalleh 6 ай бұрын

I've been thinking about accuracy the whole time of watching this video and when you showed the screw thread on the pendulum is just so satisfying. What a great build and nice video

@JBVCreative 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@TooTallToby Жыл бұрын

Great job Jay - been loving this content on clocks and escapements!!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Glad you've enjoyed it Toby!

@mr_doublebutt Жыл бұрын

This is blowing my mind... So freaking amazing.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mr. DB!

@hayfahvytsen Жыл бұрын

Awesome project. Nicely done!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@lmarquis518 Жыл бұрын

Just purchased the file and about to start printing on my Bambu X1! Your channel is awesome 👏🏽

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Logan! Enjoy the build!

@Grzzs Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see more detail on how to design some of the escapements in detail. Like the gear teeth or escapement teeth in SOLIDWORKS.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Noted! Maybe in the future! Cheers :)

@animoose Жыл бұрын

Look for videos by Jacque Favre. He has a walkthrough in Fusion 360 and another in FreeCad.

@useazebra Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if I should love or hate this, because now you've got me trying to learn CAD...

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Its such a useful skill- you might hate this in the short term, love it in the long term 😀

@poporbit2432 Жыл бұрын

Amen to that. I found tinkercad to be a good tool to learn one. It seemed very limited in capability but after experimenting on multiple gear designs I discovered some real

@TonyDrecaps Жыл бұрын

Great job! I like the explanations & the numerical dials at the end

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@paramtrx9558 8 ай бұрын

Thx that was awesome Man!

@trangtt2410 Жыл бұрын

This is, like, BEAUTY! I really love it! This is awesome!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@Creative_Electronics Жыл бұрын

Awesome project! Nice and interesting video!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TheRealStructurer Жыл бұрын

Very nice and inspiring! Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@EEGBiofeedback Жыл бұрын

That's brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Bill!

@James68257 2 ай бұрын

That's awesome! So much thought and work must have gone into the project.

@JBVCreative 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Soo much 🥵🥵

@jhanzaibhumayun5782 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this amazing tutorial!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed :)

@joshuameldru4004 Жыл бұрын

So cool, looks like so much fun to make! It’s obvious you have a joy for thoughtful building! I bet this project really took some time to make, hahaha!! Get it!! Great great video and thank you for sharing

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 thanks Joshua!

@SaftTechnologies Жыл бұрын

This was a very useful video. I appreciate the tips! The brass insert was particularly useful.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏

@marcelkepic3812 7 ай бұрын

Love your work, thanks for inspiring us!

@JBVCreative 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@designsbyty Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely fascinating. You're a wizard!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Just a humble engineer 🤓

@lettersfromstratus Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much big brother, you are really an inspiration to me

@MissNebulosity 17 күн бұрын

this video completely demystified mechanical clocks for me. Thank you very, very much!! I finally get it!!!

@kevinbowker2385 8 ай бұрын

This is seriously one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

@JBVCreative 8 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@herzogsbuick Жыл бұрын

that was a treat, those escapements are incredibly creative.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Jay! Great name btw

@herzogsbuick Жыл бұрын

@@JBVCreative yours too! it's not bias either, it's just plain fact.

@dennishines9996 Жыл бұрын

awesome video, keep up the good work

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dennis!

@ByronBuildsOfficial Жыл бұрын

This is my Christmas break project. Super excited to print and assemble.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Enjoy :) Happy holidays!

@adityakrishna4101 Жыл бұрын

You nailed it mn! Awesome clock

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@DEtchells Жыл бұрын

Wow, what a cool design; I’m gonna make one of these for my workshop! One minor point: If the clock is running fast, I’d think you’d want to move the pendulum weight down, to increase the period of the pendulum swing, no? Super work and a beautiful-looking design!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Yes! I mixed it up in the vid 😬 thank you

@AJLaRocque54 Жыл бұрын

Dude! Outstanding. As soon as my printer gets here I will be making your clock. Thanks so much for this video.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Joseph! Happy printing 😀

@cheesypufs Жыл бұрын

Unbelievably amazing!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Frank!

@stevenl7878 4 ай бұрын

Excellent job!

@mocarver 2 ай бұрын

that's a really neat project - good job

@JBVCreative 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@Handskemager Жыл бұрын

That minute hand is Awesome! Well done!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@bitzbox 8 ай бұрын

Absolutely incredible

@JBVCreative 8 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@noelaruldas1152 6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much for your demonstration and explanation!

@JBVCreative 6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@ideaynojodas Жыл бұрын

Sir.. you are a MASTER! Well done!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@decay 8 ай бұрын

great content, subbed!

@JBVCreative 8 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@mradar5913 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Great work.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@ChemicalArts Жыл бұрын

Great project. I love it.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@poporbit2432 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, I've purchased your files and my wife will love the resulting clock. Next step figuring our which color pla to use.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Appreciate your support 👊👊

@ericrosenburg657 6 ай бұрын

I was thrilled watching this, and then you added the “flyback” complication. So cool!

@JBVCreative 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

@ericrosenburg657 6 ай бұрын

Which escapement gives the most satisfying tic-toc?

@psyfusion Жыл бұрын

Yet another great design

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gary!

@dagr8kerek Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! I didn’t even realize this was finished!! I need to make one!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

🙌🙌

@Mysda_ Жыл бұрын

Thats very cool, well done

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@BoolrVids Жыл бұрын

It's astonishing to me that you don't have millions of subs. Since subscribing, each time you post a video there's always something unique & even more interesting than the last.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it 👊👊

@Muhomorchick Жыл бұрын

So beautiful!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@leandrocamargo8777 Жыл бұрын

Its so awesome!!! I love it!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏

@THVEssays Жыл бұрын

Could you upload a normal speed video of this running for like an hour or two? I’d love to have this just clicking on in the background. Maybe a JBV Creative Extra’s channel or something.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Haha I will see what I can do!

@sikfreeze Жыл бұрын

These are super impressive

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Subcritical96 4 ай бұрын

Speaking from a mechanical engineering viewpoint, you’re brilliant!

@jackwatson7323 4 ай бұрын

So good and inspiring

@JBVCreative 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@stuffoflardohfortheloveof Жыл бұрын

This is brilliant. I've just bought my 1st 3d printer and you've got me thinking 🤔🙂

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@jps99 4 ай бұрын

Very entertaining and informative!

@JBVCreative 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@RoccosStuff 11 ай бұрын

Wow, super cool use for 3d printing

@JBVCreative 11 ай бұрын

🙌🙌👊👊

@keenansmith82 Жыл бұрын

Great work

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Keenan!

@mikejward Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Saw an exhibit at the British Museum on the history of clocks. This would fit in well. 🙂

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Haha definitely could 😀

@coal.sparks Жыл бұрын

David C. Roy makes art based on a lot of these principles. I've always thought it looked cool - this might be a way for me to make something similar (for a much smaller price!).

@AliReza-do5my 4 ай бұрын

This is amazing

@JBVCreative 4 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@MaxHackbarth Жыл бұрын

Me actually understanding what is going on as he’s explaining it only too see the outro of a Timelapse of the clock and be like “yeah no”

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@FrankSkywalker Жыл бұрын

Bro this is waaay too cool 👌😮

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@LambentOrt Жыл бұрын

So cool!

@alemazza87 Жыл бұрын

I have to say that your projects are one of the most interesting I have seen on KZfaq, well done!! I have a curiosity: how accurate was the clock after running for 2 days straight?

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Alessandro! It seemed to lose a few seconds every hour. I'll admit I didn't spend too much time trying to get the pendulum length perfectly dialled in haha!

@bluerizlagirl Жыл бұрын

As long as the escapement is working properly -- always allowing the clock to advance the same amount for each swing of the pendulum, never doubling up or not allowing it to move at all -- then the *only* thing affecting the accuracy of a clock is the length of the pendulum.

@theendicott2838 Жыл бұрын

This is awesome.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed :)

@hookprobe Жыл бұрын

well done!!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrei!

@Daniel_Wolf Жыл бұрын

Genius!. Grettins from Argentina

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel!

@shreyasbhatt7112 Жыл бұрын

this was very impressive

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@cleisonarmandomanriqueagui9176 Жыл бұрын

Magnificent ... I 'll made mine , superb . Greetings from Peru arequipa

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@OhHeyTrevorFlowers Жыл бұрын

Neat work!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@NonEuclideanTacoCannon 8 ай бұрын

When I was a kid there was a book at the bookstore, that was actually a paper clock kit. I always wanted it, parents always said no. It had pages of the same gear shapes, and you were supposed to cut them out, and glue them on top of each other in layers, until you had a gear rigid enough for a clock mechanism. I always thought it was a neat idea. I doubt 8 year old me could have completed the clock, though.

@charlesa6503 Жыл бұрын

Pretty impressive!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks Charles!

@TheEnragedGamer Жыл бұрын

Dude that is so cool

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@starlight6701 Жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you did this project! Have you seen the videos of real Lego clocks? I actually built one before that runs for days on real time. The tolerances for friction and the structure are very small just like the 3D printed parts!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thats awesome!

@dannybrysonjr7241 Жыл бұрын

i love watching the shorts as you progressed on this, it's amazing to see the full vid out now

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching the whole series! Cheers :)

@wiktorutracki6469 7 ай бұрын

That's so cool

@Weimaraners Жыл бұрын

Love this 👍

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@cyberlaurent2101 Жыл бұрын

Amazing ! Thanks.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@izaradesigncom Жыл бұрын

super nice, thanks 🎉

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@user-ce7ic1ze2u 5 ай бұрын

Wow that’s one way of making a mechanical clock! Very cool

@JBVCreative 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@user-jk2el7qq7q 3 ай бұрын

Dude this is god dam amazing! great work. I've never 3D printed anything but I have access to some printers and I've always wanted a clock like this!

@JBVCreative 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@jonwheatley Жыл бұрын

found my new youtube rabbit hole. This content is incredible.

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you can appreciate :)

@MrWolfffgang 2 ай бұрын

very nice profund explanations.I once had a company, making mechanical clocks by wood which was a big success. Perhaps i will print our top model exactly 1:1 or with small modifications. One important point is lifetime, where i have a big doubt if printed parts can compete.Our experience of our clocks is more than 30 years and they are still in use. Very nice engineering and presentation.

@gearsofinspiration8528 Жыл бұрын

The verge escapement reminds me of rotary clocks the ones with the metal balls on and usually covered by a glass dome. Would ypu ever try and make one of these?

@thedispenser8301 Жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@JBVCreative Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@MrPon4ik1974 Жыл бұрын

Что тут можно сказать? Мощно, отличная работа. Вот что значит когда голова на плечах и руки растут из правильного места. Молодец!

@braydenmilburn9279 3 ай бұрын

I am currently saving up money to get a 3-D printer, and it is going to be the Bambu Labs X1 Carbon, when I do get this new printer I am going to probably try to print your clock so I can put it above my 3-D printer or in my room somewhere! I really love how it looks and how you can tell time with it! It is also really cool how you explained the escapement mechanism, it makes complete sense when I listen to you explain it very clearly. I love your clock, and I will try printing it love your videos man. You should do another video like this!

@JBVCreative 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed this :) happy printing!