As an amateur clock repairer, I’ve been hunting for a good glossary of clock part names. Then one day I found clock conservator Matthew Read talked about one in his How to repair pendulum clocks – LIVESTREAM #005, where at about 1:26:00 he mentions a 17th or 18th Century work by William Derham. One of the live-stream attendees found the title of that work.
What follows is Chapter 1 of “The Artificial Clockmaker” by William Derham, published in 1734, courtesy of Google Books. This chapter gives the then-current names and descriptions of the parts of a mechanical clock. Many of these names have survived into the 21st Century. Where necessary I’ve added annotations in brackets.
A while back GitHub moved to requiring SSH authentication for checkins. I was puzzled and put off for a long time because the Git instructions about SSH cover every case rather than being a “do this and it will work for GitHub on Windows.”
These notes describe how I set up and use SSH with GitHub.
As of 2023 GitHub requires all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable two-factor authentication (2FA). This post describes how I set up the mobile Microsoft Authenticator app as GitHub’s 2nd factor authentication.
After I’ve created an extruded Gothic Tracery design in FreeCAD, I like to Export the top Face of that design as an SVG file that I can use in other FreeCAD designs and in scrollsawing (the poor-person’s laser cutter).
I recently bought my first pinion wires (pivot wires) from Timesavers, and was stumped for a while about how to store the tiny things without mixing them up.
Sometimes I can be too enthusiastic in repairing a clock. For example, I have a Regula 25 cuckoo clock movement that I bought on eBay, to practice repairing cuckoo clocks. In the process of cleaning it, I polished the scratches off of the ends of two levers – a bad idea.
If you own an older Chevrolet Bolt, you’re probably aware of the ongoing recall, to repair Bolt battery packs that have a chance of catching fire. I’ve recently (June 2024) had my Bolt’s battery replaced under the recall. This post gives the details of my experience.
I recently bought EasySox brand snow socks for my 2020 Chevrolet Bolt EV, because the car has no clearance for chains. This post walks you through what I did to put the socks on my Bolt – it was about as difficult as putting chains on.
