WOODEN.CITY Steampunk Gearworks Wooden Wall Clock Kit - Natural Wood

Bought for my retired Dad who loves mechanical gadgets. Hours of fiddling later and the clock is on the wall and working great. Some times it's on Tick tock.

Instructions are mainly pictorial. You need to know what you are doing, to build this kit. Having said that, it is very good.

Acceptable build quality but the wooden parts are very weak and could easily be broken. As a clock it will just about run but not worth the effort ( I am a clockmaker by trade and got this for fun). Would recommend but be very careful when assembling it. The instructions are easy to follow so that helps

Why did you choose this product over others?: My husband loves building theses models and loves a challenge. Great clock

Absolute rubbish i would give zero stars if i could all the gears/wood was warped so it just constantly jammed up instructions where hard to follow i would not purchase another wooden city product again and I have built loads of these from different company and they are by far the worse I've had ive return for a full refund AVOID!!!!!!

Impulse buy. Made it with the video provided was a total nightmare pieces wouldn't pop out hurt my fingers some snapped , instructions aren't the best. Once assembled cogs wouldn't go round so it's now just an expensive ornament in my sitting room :)

Half built. Pieces do not fit properly. If you put the bits where you are supposed to the whole thing is out of sequence.

Not a clock! Wow. Should be told this before purchase.

L'orologio puzzle 3D WOODEN.CITY Steampunk Gearworks è un'esperienza unica e coinvolgente per gli appassionati di puzzle e di meccanica. Ecco la mia recensione: *Punti di forza:* - *Design incredibile*: l'orologio puzzle è un'opera d'arte, con un design steampunk unico e affascinante che ti farà sentire come un vero inventore. - *Sfida e divertimento*: il puzzle è composto da 288 parti e richiede una buona dose di pazienza e abilità, ma il senso di soddisfazione quando lo completerai sarà immenso. - *Ingranaggi mobili*: gli ingranaggi sono mobili e funzionano realmente, il che aggiunge un tocco di realismo e di magia all'esperienza. - *Qualità del materiale*: il legno è di alta qualità e ben lavorato, il che garantisce una costruzione solida e duratura. *Punti di debolezza:* - *Difficoltà iniziale*: il puzzle può essere molto difficile all'inizio, e potrebbe essere necessario un po' di tempo per capire come assemblare le parti. - *Mancanza di istruzioni chiare*: le istruzioni non sono sempre chiare, quindi potrebbe essere necessario cercare online per completare il puzzle. *Giudizio complessivo:* L'orologio puzzle 3D WOODEN.CITY Steampunk Gearworks è un prodotto eccezionale per gli appassionati di puzzle e di meccanica. Sebbene possa essere difficile all'inizio, il senso di soddisfazione quando lo completerai sarà immenso. Lo consiglio a tutti coloro che cercano un'esperienza unica e coinvolgente, e che sono disposti a investire tempo e pazienza per costruire qualcosa di veramente speciale.

This kit has major design issues & only suitable as a static display. I have completed numerous wooden diy kits from various manufacturers always with successful outcomes but not this kit. The way where you have to bend open a partial built assembly to insert various completed cog modules is insane, surely there must be a better method than this. Not using metal bearings for all the shafts but relying on wooden holes is another design shortfall or cost cutting? When completely assembled and left to free wheel with the pendulum disconnected you can verify that all cogs are functioning correctly and help with the alignment needed. After fine sanding all cogs of any burrs or swarf and after extensive waxing of all gears and shafts the clock failed to run more than a few seconds at a time irrespective of alignment or adjustment. Please note I weighed the sand and installed the exact weight into suspended carrier as per the included manual. After wasting far too many hours trying to get the clock to run continuously it was obvious that the kit is only suitable to be used as a static display. As I don't like to see a clock on my wall that cant be used to tell the correct time I binned the project. As others have previously mentioned the kit has design flaws and even if you follow the assembly exactly as instructed you too are likely to end up with a static display.

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OVERALL RATING: Five stars. This is a high quality, well thought out and well engineered model. With so many gears, the builder needs to do their part, exercise patience and take their time to make sure each gear is near perfect. This is not an error tolerant design. Building other simpler clocks first will help to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to tackle this one successfully. Or, you could spend 4-5 hours assembling this clock and be happy with enjoying the 3D puzzle and hanging a cool wall decoration. SKILL LEVEL: 5/5 for the horologist 3/5 for the puzzle maven PROS: 1. Extremely well engineered and thought out clock kit. 2. Terrific conversation piece. 3. When built correctly, adjusted and broken in, accurate to about five minutes a day. (As accurate as can be expected for a wood clock.) 4. Easily set hour and minute hands. 5. Accurately laser cut pieces. 6. Included instruction sheet with assembly illustrations. 7. Simple to use rewind mechanism. 8. Clever pendulum bob adjustment to adjust the speed of the clock. 9. Some spare parts are included. 10. Only basic building tools are needed. CONS: 1. This is the big one. There are six driven gears to the escapement and three to the hour marker which results in a lot of mechanism drag in addition to the gearing leverage. The axles are also made from wood which also contributes to drag. In order for the clock to work, a lot of attention must be spent on reducing drag. Reducing drag to make the clock functional will take most of the effort to build the clock. 2. The wood has a distinctive odor that I find unpleasant. 3. The support structure is fragile and requires careful building in order to prevent breaking any pieces. 4. Some of the pieces (such as the axle retainers) are very small. A set of forceps or tweezers and a small rubber hammer are useful for setting the small pieces. 5. Some of the pieces, especially the smaller ones, are difficult to remove from their boards. 6. Some of the illustrations on the instruction sheet are very small – especially the final assembly diagrams. I needed a magnifying glass to view some of the details. 7. Need to acquire your own weight for the drive mechanism. 8. The design of the pendulum arm creates some weak points and will require pre-emptive reinforcement with CA. BUILD NOTES: • The gears are cut so that there is a small amount of clearance between engaging gear teeth. This reduces the amount of sanding needed to clearance the gears to prevent binding. • Laser cutting leaves a rough surface that needs to be sanded smooth. Before sanding, I like to harden each tooth with a drop of thin cyanoacrylate (CA) glue. This fills in the natural pores in the wood and hardens the wood. When sanded smooth, the surface can be made much smoother than the raw wood and the increased hardness will reduce friction and wear. • I treated each gear like a mini model and tried to perfect each gear set before moving on to the next one. • When assembling the clock, I first check two adjacent gears to make sure that they are running true and engaged correctly with little drag by spinning the pair to make sure they don’t bind. I do this with each gear pairing it with the next one to make sure they spin freely and are properly positioned (not wobbling) for engagement. Slide the gears on their axles to make sure that all the gears engage properly. Once all the gears are in proper alignment, level so it doesn't wobble and does not rub its adjacent gears, I glue each gear to its axle with a drop of CA glue to keep them positioned correctly. • I wax the ends of each axle and place them in their locating holes and spin it several times to burnish the wax in. I repeat this procedure 3-4 times for each axle. • I also harden the pallets with CA, sand them smooth with extra fine sandpaper and apply a coat of wax. • To further try to reduce drag, I chamfer the sides of the teeth of every large gear to reduce the contact area with the smaller gear. This is probably not necessary but every little bit helps. • Several other reviews mention that their clock doesn’t run or runs for only a few seconds and then stops. This is due to one of several reasons: too much drag from friction from improperly engaging gears, not waxing the gears and axles (especially the high leverage gears and escapement that are farthest away from the drive gear), or improper timing of the pallets. • When setting up the clock for the first time, the pallets must disengage the escapement wheel equally on the left and right. (See photos.) If the pendulum shaft is warped (mine was) then one side will disengage further than the other side and the clock will stall. The traditional way of addressing this is to tilt the clock slightly until the pallets disengage equally. The rotating assembly on the right side rear mounting hole allows you to do this by rotating the knob to raise or lower the right side of the clock. • If you look at the bottom of the left base, there is a pointer that helps to align the clock vertically. A vertical line drawn from the left mounting hole should line up with this indicator. • As mentioned by another reviewer, one of the boards has two locating holes marked on it for locating the mounting screws. (These are the holes near parts number 97 and 102.) Level the board to the mounting location on the wall and mark the mounting holes to ensure the clock is level. • As mentioned earlier, my pendulum shaft was warped. When I tried to straighten it, I broke the shaft at one of the bends. It was then that I noticed that the plywood had delaminated. I glued it back with CA and then reinforced the other bends with a drop or two of CA to help with inter-laminar adhesion at these weak points. • Break-in weight on my clock was 2 pounds (900 grams).When hanging the drive weight, the pendulum automatically started swinging and then stopped after a few seconds. I noticed the assymmetrical disengagement of the pallets, made the appropriate adjustment and the clock has been running ever since. As the clock breaks in, I hope to be able to reduce this weight. After a couple of days of running, my clock gains a minute every six hours with the bob at its lowest position. I may have to add some weight to slow it down. Contrary to the disclaimer included with the kit, this clock will keep good time. • Taking my time over four days, it took me 20 hours to build the gear set and 10 hours to assemble and adjust.

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