... now that I've joined the group. ... introdcing myself. I.m an enthisiastic amateur horologist but still a rank amateur (and a radio amateur to boot, see my ID). An associate member of the BHI in t

Have now received the book publication web link from the Chairman. Thanks very much for that. I have just copied over the cover picture with first two paragraphs of text together with a web link so th

A big thank you to all that visited and re-homed. We sold about 90% of the collection. As stated the policy was a two month period for collectors. The prop agents have now taken delivery of their item

Dear et al Just to say we are coming to the end of the two months allocated to members. This ends on the last day of September. Thanks for all members that visited and homed items. These are now in sa

Meilleures salutations Dear All (apologies for cross-posting etc), I suspect that many will already have heard about this from Albert, or Michel….. 6th INTERNATIONAL ELECTRIC CLOCK FAIR Saturday Novem

Hi Thought you all would like to see an Aron double pendulum Meter I received yesterday and what iv'e managed to achieve by careful cleaning and replacing the damaged glasses all done this afternoon.

Hi group. Hope someone can help me: I have a small battery (4-6 V) that are on constant charging. But the cable that is soldered to the positive pole of the battery get green corrosion and burn off. T

I recently put together a simple but effective Arduino based setup to measure losses in my synchronome, which I describe in more detail at https://sites.google.com/view/clock-energetics/home As an exa

At the moment I cannot lay my hands on the reference for the following statements — my apologies. Clocks with pendulums in vacuum vessels fall into two categories: clockwork contained in the tank with

Hello Everyone Here are the photos of whats left at the museum for sale, that except one or two items that Dr. Strickland tells me are reserved. This could be the last chance for collectors to buy a G

Hi All, With all this stuff about re-inventing the Synchronome, I thought it would be a good time to introduce another new electric clock concept - at least parts of it are a new concept. The clock in

BASIC INVENTORY OF ITEMS FOR SALE ================================== Hello All.. Here is an updated inventory of updated items for sale at the Chichester, Sussex based Clock Museum. Check out the imag

Dear Members Received this earlier from Paul so have forwarded it to here as some of you may have been in contact about the sale of items from the clocktrust. Regards Jim

Hello All.. I have spent an interesting few days last week visiting Dr. Strickland's former museum, with a view to buying some of the many artefacts now on offer from him. The visit was very interesti

Good morning, Checking to see if anyone has spare complete pendulum assembly with bob and pallet for a TMC Telephone Rentals Chronomatic master clock they're willing to part with. I understand it’s a

Hi Jim, Please subscribe me to the io list. Thanks Mark

Shortt-Synchronome #23 Hello, For the last couple of years, several members of NAWCC Chapter 107 have been working on getting the Lick Observatory’s sidereal Shortt-Synchronome operational. I thought

I'm pleased to announce that at about 11 am this morning I launched the first cut at the software to drive my "re-invented" Synchronome and it is working! At least the pendulum is swinging, the impuls

I finally received at my home in Venice, Italy, a Synchronome #2177 recently purchased on Ebay and set it up as well as I could following a set of instructions found at clockdoc.org Given the age the

What power source do you recommend for a Synchronome? I am interested in setting up a better system than I am presently using. Thinking in terms of a wall wart and capacitor??? Oldman