Author Archives: Jon Long Sr

Some progress since the last post, albeit slow.   The supports for the selector assemble have been installed complete with bearings upper and lower.  The trick was to get the angle right as the selector has to follow the slope … Continue reading →

Now that I have the jig to hold the Hour Ball Magazine, I am able to see how things fit. There are a number if parts that had/have to be made for the selector mechanism.  The first was the slides … Continue reading →

The hour balls appear to be moving through the striker mechanism smoothly now. It is time to focus on the section that will select and release the proper number of balls to the striker. Back in February I talked about … Continue reading →

Now that the balls are transitioning through the hour lever, the next things to do are provide an exit path for the balls and to harness the power from the lever. Since there was already a track that went by … Continue reading →

  Now that I have balls accumulating in the Hour Striker Magazine, I can work to route them to a mechanism for the hour strike. The challenge here was to get the maximum power from the lever to eventually operate … Continue reading →

I’m having to make these titles up as I go.  Anyway there had to be a way to divert the excess balls for quarter strike to the rack that holds then for the hours strike when needed.  Making a fast … Continue reading →

So far I have gotten the quarter hour strikes working and routed the extra balls back to the second lift. I struggled with how to keep track of the hours and also at the same time select the right number … Continue reading →

Sometimes things get complicated.  Especially in relationships and ball clocks. Having the clock run more often has allowed some gremlins to show up.  I started to notice that the reset for the upper flips was occurring at random.  This of … Continue reading →

With the strikes for the quarter hours coming too quickly it was necessary to figure out a way to slow them down.  Fortunately (by chance) the exiting balls pass below the quarter lever strike mechanism on their way back to … Continue reading →

So now I have balls going through the quarter magazine and ending up in the striker mechanism and then no where to go after that. The excess balls that are not needed for the magazine replenishment also have no where … Continue reading →