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Offline Don1966

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #60 on: April 06, 2014, 10:07:14 PM »
Dek, I love it and I would say its 4:36 when you took the photo. I will be anxiously awaiting the new photos and video. I particularly like the brass base works awesome engineering. I like............ :praise2:  :praise2:


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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #61 on: April 06, 2014, 11:20:37 PM »
Looks fantastic Dek....even when out of focus.

No doubt the next set of pics (and video!) will show the awesomeness.
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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #62 on: April 07, 2014, 01:44:39 PM »
Those are some hefty gauge fibres - what size are they?

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #63 on: April 07, 2014, 03:18:37 PM »
Dek...what a fantastic project and the brass "clockworks" is phenomenal!!! 

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #64 on: April 07, 2014, 03:43:23 PM »
Thanks again for the kind comments gents. Don, spot on with the time . :ThumbsUp:  Heffalump, the fibres are 1.5mm for the minutes & hours, and 1mm for the seconds. Maybe the sheen on them makes them look bigger in the photo.

Cheers Dek. :old:

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #65 on: April 08, 2014, 11:45:14 AM »
Thanks Dek.

I think it's probably a mental thing - fibres we use here at work are between 8 - 250 µm

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #66 on: April 10, 2014, 08:23:46 PM »
Hi Heffalump, you don't work at Optronics by any chance do you. I have some of those teeny-weeny ones, they came from the scrapyard when "Marconi" closed their Liverpool factory. Our local (Crewe) scrapyard had a contract with them until they closed.

Cheers Dek. :old:

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #67 on: April 11, 2014, 08:51:02 AM »
No I don't, though all of those names are close to home!

I'm a Huber+Suhner Boy. :D

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #68 on: April 22, 2014, 07:57:11 PM »
Well it's been a long time coming folks but here it is at last :pinkelephant: :pinkelephant: The VID. Hope you like, although Ralph (the bloke who made the vid). is not too happy with it.

Cheers Dek :old:

[youtube1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5STsnp_tiU[/youtube1]

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #69 on: April 22, 2014, 08:54:06 PM »
That is just pretty cool!
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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #70 on: April 22, 2014, 11:40:00 PM »
Thanks Deko for the video and it's fantastic, and a awesome built. This clock needs to be in the Joe Martin Museum. You need to inter Joe's craftsman of the year contest. I am serious about this Deko. I do like....... :praise2:

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #71 on: April 23, 2014, 01:29:36 AM »
Very cool Dek.

A clock worth watching.

Thanks for posting such an interesting project.

Thanks Deko for the video and it's fantastic, and a awesome built. This clock needs to be in the Joe Martin Museum. You need to inter Joe's craftsman of the year contest. I am serious about this Deko.

 :ThumbsUp: That was my thought too. It's museum quality.
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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #72 on: April 23, 2014, 10:56:37 PM »
Thanks very much for the kind words gents, :ThumbsUp: but being a looong way from the USA I don't think it would be easy to follow your suggestions.

Cheers Dek. :old:

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #73 on: April 24, 2014, 09:16:06 AM »
Fantastic work Derek. Very unusual and interesting. You are far too modest about your abilities. It should be in the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. The school kids would love it.

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Re: Fibre optic clock
« Reply #74 on: April 27, 2014, 04:58:52 PM »
Thanks for the compliment Gary. :ThumbsUp:  Show it at MSI, Mmmmmm  :thinking: I shall keep my eyes
open for a bloke on crutches at Harrogate on the Saturday so if you get accosted by a bloke with a beige baseball cap, glasses, and a beard, it'll be me. :???:

Cheers Dek.

 

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