When I'm building a clock, I will spend hoursĪt this band saw cutting out different pieces. I built a pneumatic air cylinder that'll lower a light down It's a very nice band saw built in the late 1800s. She's two and a half, and she'll correct me every time. I can't believe you'd spend all this time Of having an arm that would clean even a small portionĪnd it's only her that will be able to eat the food, This is a feather duster I made for cleaning the barn. His love of invention is evident throughout his space. It has a motor here, which powers the second hand,Īnd then it's further reduced down in speed The wonderful feature about these versus a regular gear To a year to actually construct the clock. If there's electronic parts, order those,Īnd then it usually takes maybe eight months I'm gonna build another two more sections on thisįuture project, these cans here will lift mannequin hands, This is probably about eight months' work. The timing comes off of a little microprocessor. With the different size gears that are used on that.Īnd here's detail of the escapement that we used.Īnd it has air cylinders that will extend it out. This one in particular is the timber frame clock Some of them are still in the refinement stage. This is my prototype area where I go from creating an idea In the works that he's never done before. As staggering as Rick's finished clocks are, Over the years that were interesting, solving problems. I mean like four or five years old, I took clocks apart. I definitely have a very childlike curiosity. There's pumps down here that provide oil for the hourĪ small timer microprocessor turns the pumps on and off. This one, whichever direction you walk at it, On the hour, the minutes drain out and the hours fill. This is 300 bottles, 300 bolts that we had to turn.Įach one was a different size to get this clock to be built. Opening on the bottles is not consistent.Įach bolt had to be turned to a different diameter. Then it continues on this way and drops at another 1/12th. That's 1/60th the speed here than it was where it started. This is 30 bottles to 12, 36 bottles to 12, So this has to go around twice for this to go around once. It takes me weeks to change all the clocks back Look, even prehistoric people look at the stars.Ībout they need to do this, they need to do that. This will push out, push all the dominoes down, On the hour, I carved my daughter's hand here. That will push the domino up every minute. So that the bearings would be at these exact spots.įrom a machine that was used for testing shoes,Īll I have to do is figure out how to take that concept When it gets to this end here, it will hit this stop sign,Īll this metal here, I hand-bent and welded, Which is what determines how fast the escapement is moving,Īnd we have a dial to read the actual time from. We have an escapement, which starts and stops the movement. We have gearing, which slows down the speed for the hands. I could not see myself doing anything other than clocks.Įnergy, gearing, escapement, control, and indication. He makes clocks using everything from bottles,Įach one is completely unique and totally accurate. It would be out in San Francisco by the end of the year. So if I put it on Interstate 80 headed west, This is a clock, and this is a clock,Īnd every one of these clocks is an inventive journey. Special thanks to: Elizabeth Gorbey Willow Springs Photography Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch Rick gets inspiration from nearly everything, fueling his whimsical timekeeping inventions. "Even when I'm on vacation I think of different clocks to make," says Rick, talking about how he always has clocks on the brain. He makes clocks using everything from bottles to bicycles each one of them completely unique and accurate. Every one of Rick Stanley's clocks is an inventive journey.
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