Our Meeting Will Be on March 9th, 2025

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Presidents Message,

We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in.  Thank you for your help in this.

Doors open at 9:00 for setup and mart. Mike Dempsey will be continue discussing Balance staff and hairspring replacement beginning at 10:00 during the mart.  The first part was presented in the October meeting.  Educational talk at 11:00 by Danno entitled “The one that got away, moving a Schwalbach Tower Clock Movement.”

We also need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

Our planned demonstration at the March  mart will be Balance staff and hairspring replacement, part 2 (Dempsey)

Craig White gave a hands-on demonstration of silvering a dial.  Surface preparation and actually adding silver to the surface was demonstrated.  This was followed by lacquering or waxing.

Craig White then gave a PowerPoint talk on Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock, or Nock as the Scottish would call it.  The Clock was made by James Gray and the musical portion made by Anthony Jeeves around 1774.  The clock plays 10 individual tunes by a selector dial.  Music plays at 10, 1, 6 & 9 or on command.  This is called Presbyterian strike which is defined by the clock playing at certain times of the day and silent at night.  The specific times are selected by maker and usually had religious reasons.
The replacement of some missing pins was shown as well as cleaning and adjusting.  A missing pully was recreated to match the originals and the technique was shown on how this was done. 
The hands, finials were verified as originals by comparing to other clock by the same maker.

We still need some volunteer for talks for 2025.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.

Educational Talks Planned for 2025:

May 2025      Isaac Rogers Turkish Dial Lantern Clock Restoration, by Craig White
Sept 2025     Open
Nov. 2025     Open

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available.

Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks,
Craig

Next meeting is January 12, 2025

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Presidents Message
We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in.  Thank you for your help in this.

Opens at 9:00 for setup and mart. Craig White Will give a demonstration on re-silvering dials beginning at 10:00 during the mart. Mike Dempsy will give the second part of his balance staff and hairspring replacement in March.   Educational talk at 11:00 by Craig White entitled “Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock”

We also need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

We have some demonstrations planed for upcoming meetings as follows
Jan – Resilver dials (White)
Mar – Balance staff and hairspring replacement, part 2 (Dempsey)

Thank you, Mike, for giving your PowerPoint talk on Mainsprings.  He suggested this is the first tool you should buy when getting into clock repair.  There is a lot of potential energy stored in a mainspring.  This energy needs to be let down in a controlled manner to avoid personal injury and damage to the clock.  Cleaning and examining the mainspring is important when servicing a clock.  The spring needs to be free of any cracks and clean and lubricated with horological mainspring oil.

Craig White gave an overview of his recent AHS tour in Netherlands and a stop in Wales, intitled “Horological Finds in Europe.”  Photos of a couple of rotisseries powered by clock works were shown.  A dog powered wheel was shown for rotating meat during cooking.  This was a special dog breed now extinct.

But in 1793, the French smashed the old clock system in favor of French Revolutionary Time, which was a 10-hour day, with 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds per minute. This thoroughly modern system had a few practical benefits, chief among them being a simplified way to do time-related math. If we want to know when a day is 80% complete, decimal time simply says “at the end of the eighth hour,” whereas standard time requires us to say “at 19 hours, 12 minutes.” French Revolutionary Time was a more elegant solution to that math problem. The problem was that every living person already had a well-established way of telling the time, and old habits die hard!

The system proved unpopular. People were unfamiliar with switching systems of time, and there were few practical reasons for non-mathematicians to change how they told time. (The same could not be said of the metric system of weights and measurements, which helped to standardize commerce; weights and measurements often differed in neighboring countries, but clocks generally did not.) Furthermore, replacing every clock and watch in the country was an expensive proposition. The French officially stopped using decimal time after just 17 months. French Revolutionary Time became non-mandatory starting on April 7, 1795. This did not stop some areas of the country from continuing to observe decimal time, and a few decimal clocks remained in use for years afterwards, presumably leading to many missed appointments!

We still need some volunteer for talks for 2025.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.

Educational Talks Planned for 2025:
Jan  2025         Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock
March 2025        Open
May 2025          Isaac Rogers Turkish Dial Lantern Clock Restoration, by Craig
September 2025    The one that got away, moving a Schwalbach Tower clock by Danno
Nov. 2025         Open

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available.
Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks, Craig

Next meeting is November 17, 2024. Note: Meeting to be held in lower hall

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Presidents Message,
We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in.  Thank you for your help in this.

Opens at 9:00 for setup and mart. Mike Dempsey will be continue discussing Balance staff and hairspring replacement beginning at 10:00 during the mart.  The first part was presented in the October meeting.  Educational talk at 11:00 by Craig White entitled “Interesting Horological Finds in Europe”.  Come see a ticking Rotisserie and one powered by a dog.  Also see a decimal metric clock!  Cleanup at 12:00.

We also need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

We have some demonstrations planed for upcoming meetings as follows:

  • Nov – Balance staff and hairspring replacement, part 2 (Dempsey)
  • Jan – Winding and Letting Down clock & watch mainsprings (Danno/Dempsey)
  • Mar – Resilver dials (White)

 

Thank you, Amelia, for giving your PowerPoint talk on Chauncey Jerome vs PT Barnum: The Great Bankruptcy of 1856.  PT Barnum born in 1810 and got into the curiosity business in 1835 and then created the American Museum in 1841.

Chauncy Jerome worked for Eli Terry making clock cases.  Jerome and Barnum went into business together but the stories greatly differ on who was at fault in their transactions. 

A visit to the Halim Time and Glass Museum was suggested.  I have not received feedback of enough people interested in the tour.  The good news is that the Time Symposium is planned there in October 2025.  This will give all of us an opportunity to visit the museum and all the other activities of the symposium so close to home.

The Midwest Regional has been disbanded and the funds distributed between the chapters that were involved.  Chapter 47 received approximately $5000 for our share.  A discussion was held with those of us in attendance and we agreed to buy a new projector and reduce dues and attendance fees to run the chapter slightly at an operating loss, and use this extra money to supplement our expenses for the next 10 years.  This will continue to be monitored and adjusted if necessary.

Current Fees:

  • Dues      $25
  • Admission  $5
  • Gold Card $15

NewFees:

  • Dues      $15
  • Admission  $5
  • Gold Card $10

Link to the 2025 Membership form

This months meeting is to be held in lower hall due to Packer Party in regular upper hall. We will meet in the lower hall whenever there is a Packer game at noon on Sunday of our meeting.  The hall is much larger and we get it for the same price.  That gives the hall plenty of time to set up the upper hall for a Packer Party.

This months  educational talk:
Nov 17 – Craig White will make a presentation “Interesting Horological Finds in Europe”. 

Educational Talks Planned for 2025:

  • Jan  2025         Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock
  • March 2025      The one that got away: Moving a Schwalbach Tower Clock.
  • May 2025         Open
  • Sept 2025         Open
  • Nov. 2025         Open

We still need some volunteer for talks for 2025.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.
Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available. 

Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks,
Craig

DATE CHANGE: Next MART is October 6th.

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Important Notice, the date of our next mart has been changed to October 6th.

Presidents Message,
Next meeting is October 6, 2024

We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down. So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in. Thank you for your help in this.

Opens at 9:00 for setup and mart. Mike Dempsey will be discussing Balance staff and hairspring replacement beginning at 10:00 during the mart. Educational talk at 11:00 by Amelia Osterud she will give a talk entitled “Chauncey Jerome vs PT Barnum: The Great Bankruptcy of 1856”. Cleanup at 12:00.

We also need a new secretary. The main job is just to put this newsletter together. Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

We have some demonstrations planed for upcoming meetings as follows:

Oct – Balance staff and hairspring replacement (Dempsey)
Nov – Winding and Letting Down clock & watch mainsprings (Danno/Dempsey)
Jan – Resilver dials (White)

Thank you, Mike, for giving your PowerPoint talk on repivoting. Many ideas and methods were presented. Further demonstrating some of the techniques will follow later.

Craig White updated on his and Mike Dempsey Congreve Clock making. The large pieces are cut out and assembled. Feet were copied and cast/machined coping and old Congreve clock foot. Finials were purchased and drilled and tapped for fitting into assembly.

Many months were spent building models and drawings for construction. The drawings in the book left out a lot of dimensions. The plates, movement plates were cut on a CNC mill. Columns and movement posts were machined on a CNC lathe.

The Pritlaff four sided street clock spent many years in the Grand Avenue Mall in Milwaukee. It was packed away in storage and saved by the owner of the Pritlaff building. Jack Heisler restored the movement and got it going again in a hall located in the Pritlaff building around 8 years ago. Jack has passed on and Mike Dempsey and I are working on getting it going again. Will keep the chapter updated on progress.

A visit to the Halim Time and Glass Museum was suggested. They currently offer guided tours for $25 each for a minimum of 10 people. Web site is https://www.halimmuseum.org/. The museum is in Evanston IL 1.5 hours South of Milwaukee. They are open for the tours Mon-Friday 10-5

They have the largest remaining items of the Time Museum Clocks from Rockford IL. They have over 1100-time pieces on display including tower clocks, chronometers, automatons, pocket watches, and tall case clocks. Beautifully displayed and preserved. The collections are one of the finest in the world. Many amazing clocks in are displayed and we will have a knowledgeable tour guide to tell us all about them. The Museum also contains many displays on glass.

Email Craig White cswhite5@yahoo.com if interested and I will propose some dates if we can get 10 interested people.

Nov 17 – Craig White will make a presentation “Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock”.  Meeting to be held in lower hall due to Packer Party in regular upper hall. We will meet in the lower hall whenever there is a Packer game at noon on Sunday of our meeting.  The hall is much larger and we get it for the same price.  That gives the hall plenty of time to set up the upper hall for a Packer Party.

We still need some volunteer for talks for 2025.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.

Dates for 2025 are as follows:
Jan 12, 2025
March 9, 2025
May 18, 2025
September 7, 2025
Nov. 9, 2025

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available. 

Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks,
Craig

May 19th is the next mart

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Presidents Message
We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in.  Thank you for your help in this.

Mike Dempsey will be discussing re-pivoting clock and watch arbors beginning at 10:00 during the mart.  Educational talk at 11:00 by Craig White entitled “Restoring a Scottish Musical Clock.” Craig will also give a short update on Demsey/White Congreve clock making progress.  Cleanup at 12:00.

We also need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

We have some demonstrations planed for upcoming meetings as follows:

  • May – Re-pivoting clock and watch arbors (Dempsey)
  • September– Balance staff and hairspring replacement (Dempsey)
  • November – Winding and Letting Down clock & watch mainsprings (Osterud/Dempsey)
  • January – Re-silvering dials (White)

For our live seminar in May, Robert Olney demonstrated glass cutting for clocks.  He cut glass for a break arch door using hand tools only.  He also showed the use of a diamond wheel grinder and emery paper to cleanup edges, as well as demonstrating use of a suction cup circle cutter to make a round dial to fit a bezel. He supplied handouts with methodology and sources for materials.
Thanks to Bob for teaching us a little about cutting glass.

Danno Osterud made a Presentation on Renaissance Clocks in Milwaukee Art Museum.
You can get free admission from many of the Milwaukee suburban libraries by checking out a pass on a first come first serve basis.
The Museum collection includes wonderful rarities because Milwaukeeans Richard and Erna Flagg collected them and donated them to the Museum.  In fact, the Milwaukee Art Museum is known to have the best collection of German Renaissance clocks anywhere outside of Germany.
During the 15th century, clock mechanism began using springs and gears.  Around 1500, just in time for the Renaissance, this new technology led to a proliferation of table clocks.  These new machines not only could divide the day systematically into hours and minutes, but they could also track the zodiac, phases of the moon, and seasons.  Highly esteemed craftsmen would make these for the wealthy patrons who could both afford the valuable mechanism and be able to understand what all these symbols meant.
Danno also showed pictures of many of the other clocks in the museum.  This is a must see for horological interested people, especially in our home town.  Danno, thanks for sharing.

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A visit to the Halim Time and Glass Museum was suggested.  They currently offer guided tours for $25 each for a minimum of 10 people.  Web site is https://www.halimmuseum.org/.  The museum is in Evanston IL 1.5 hours South of Milwaukee.  They are open for the tours Mon-Friday 10-5.
They have the largest remaining items of the Time Museum Clocks from Rockford IL.  They have over 1100-time pieces on display including tower clocks, chronometers, automatons, pocket watches, and tall case clocks.  Beautifully displayed and preserved.  The collections are one of the finest in the world. Many amazing clocks in are displayed and we will have a knowledgeable tour guide to tell us all about them.  Also many displays on glass.
Email Craig White cswhite5@yahoo.com if interested and I will propose some dates if we can get 10 interested people.

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Future educational talks planned:

  • May 19 – Craig White will make a presentation “Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock”
  • Sept 22 – Amelia Osterud will give a talk entitled “Chauncey Jerome vs PT Barnum: The Great Bankruptcy of 1856”

We still need some volunteer for talks for 2024 & 2025.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions. 

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available. 
We had some more clocks donated which the chapter will be selling at the silent auction table.

Hope to see you all there.
Thanks,
Craig

 

 

Our next Mart will be on March 10th, 2024

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Presidents Message,

We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in.  Thank you for your help in this.

Opens at 9:00 for setup and mart.
Robert Olney will be demonstrating glass cutting beginning at 10:00 during the mart.
Educational talk at 11:00.
Cleanup at 12:00.

We need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

We have some demonstrations planned for upcoming meetings as follows:

  • Mar – Glass cutting (Robert Olney)
  • May – Re-pivoting clock and watch arbors (Dempsey)
  • Sep– Balance staff and hairspring replacement (Dempsey)
  • Nov – Winding clock & watch mainsprings (Osterud/Dempsey)
  • Jan – Resilver dials (White)

We had to presentations at our February mart. Harry Schultz gave a talk on Making a Calendar Wheel to replace a damaged wheel from an English Tall Case Clock.  He created a “simple” dividing plate and used it to layout his part.  He then cut the teeth with a splitting saw and jewelers saw.  After the part was cut Harry then filed it to shape and fitted it to the clock. Thanks Harry for this informative talk.

Michael Figueira discussed letting down the spring on a 1986 vintage Elgin 400-day clock.  This clock is known as a German time bomb.  It received this nickname from its less than obvious way to let down the tension in the mainspring. Letting the spring down incorrectly can cause the clock to rapidly disintegrate. Mike has successfully let down the spring, rebuilt the movement and currently keeps the clock in his wife’s sewing room for some reason. It is kept away from where his wife sits!

Thanks to Harry and Michael for these informative talks.

“A group of timepiece enthusiasts is gathering weekly in Mukwonago on Thursday evenings through April 11. The group consists mainly of former students of the defunct WCTC community extracurricular education program, and is seeking to expand its attendance with anyone who has an interest in learning about timepieces OR SHARING THEIR KNOWLEDGE. Currently, the meetings are BYOC (bring your own clock). As the attendees work on their timepieces, they share advice and opinions, troubleshoot and converse. If interested in attending, contact Kevin Schultz at usmc2nbpd@yahoo.com.”

Future educational talks planned:

  • March 10 – Danno will make a Presentation on Renaissance and other Clocks at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
  • May 19 – Craig White will make a presentation “Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock”
  • Sept 22 – Amelia Osterud will give a talk entitled “Chauncey Jerome vs PT Barnum: The Great Bankruptcy of 1856”
  • Nov 17 – ?

We still need a volunteers for talks for 2024 & 2025.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.  

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available.  We had some more clocks donated which the chapter will be selling at the silent auction table.

Hope to see you all there.
Thanks,
Craig

Sunday February 11th is our next mart

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Doors open at 9:00 for setup. Educational talk at 11:00.  Cleanup at 12:00.
NOTE MEETING DATE CHANGE to not compete with Chapter 3 meeting date.

Presidents Message
We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in.  Mike Dempsey and I will be presenting a Seminar on “Burnishing clock and watch pivots” beginning at 10:00 during the mart.  Educational talk at 11:00. Cleanup at 12:00.

We also need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

For this marts educational talk you get two for the price of one! Harry Schultz will be giving a talk on Making a Calendar Wheel and Michael Figueira will discuss an Unusual Anniversary Clock.

We have had some requests to add some hands-on teaching seminars in basic clock and watch repair.  We started with Tool Sharpening in November during the mart and it was well attended.

  • Feb – Burnishing clock and watch pivots (White/Demsey)
  • Mar – Re-pivoting clock and watch arbors (Dempsey)
  • May – Balance staff and hairspring replacement (Dempsey)
  • Sep – Winding clock & watch mainsprings (Danno/Dempsey)
  • Nov – Resilver dials (White)

Tony Zimmer gave a very interesting talk on screw drivers.  He brought in at least 100 different screw drivers for both watch and clock work.  He emphasized the need to get screw drivers that feel right in your hands as everyone has different hands.  Start with finding the diameter of the handle that feels good to you.
Tony then suggested looking at handle lengths, some screw drivers sets have various handle lengths. The handle length increases with the size of blade the handle gets longer. Other sets all have the same length for all blade sizes.  Again, personal preference. 

Also look at size and shape of pad, ease of replacing blade and knurled feel of handle.  Some screw driver blades require removing 2 set screw while others are changed by just removing a nut holding the blade in handle.  Thanks, Tony, for explaining all the choices in screwdriver selection.

Future educational talks planned:
February 11 – Harry Schultz willbe giving a talk on Making a Calendar Wheel and Michael  Figueira will discuss an Unusual Anniversary Clock. Two for the price of one this month!
March 10 – Danno will make a Presentation on Renaissance Clocks
May 19 – Craig White will make a presentation “Restoring a Scottish Musical Tall Case Clock”
Sept 22 – TBA
Nov 17 – TBA

We still need volunteers for talks and/or demonstration for 2024.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions. 

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available.  We had some more clocks donated which the chapter will be selling at the silent auction table.
Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks,
Craig

Our next mart is November 12th.

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Presidents Message,
Next meeting is November 12, 2023

We had our location temporarily moved to the larger hall just behind and to the south of our normal location and it seemed to work out well.  This is likely a one time move due to some conflicts with the normal location from the American Legion perspective.
We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in. 
Opens at 9:00 for setup and mart. Mike Dempsey and I will be presenting a Seminar on Tool Sharpening with Focus on Jewelers’ Lathe beginning at 10:00 during the mart.  Educational talk by Tony Zimmer on “Finding the Right Screwdriver” at 11:00. Cleanup at 12:00.

We also need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

We have had some requests to add some hands-on teaching in basic clock repair.  We are starting with Tool Sharpening in November during the mart.    At the close of this first one we will discuss future subjects. Please email me any ideas you have for future seminars. 

Congreve Clocks
Craig White gave a talk on the history of the Congreve rolling ball clock. Mike Demsey and Mike Figueira brought some of their Congreve rolling ball clocks to show as examples.  Both Mikes talked about their clocks.  Mike Figueira’s clock was even working during the Mart and Talk.  Thanks for bringing your examples.

The rolling ball clocks are mesmerizing to watch the ball going back and forth in its zig-zag pattern until the ball triggers the table to tilt in the other direction.  Then the ball moves in the opposite direction.  The clocks are not good time keepers but are fun to watch.

Sir William Congreve was able to obtain a patent for his clock design in 1808 but he was not a clockmaker.  Rather, Congreve fancied himself as an inventor and his designs included counterfeit-proof paper, pneumatic canal locks, and even a perpetual motion machine. He is probably most famous for his development of the Congreve rocket, a weapon which was successfully used at the battle of Leipzig (Germany) in the Napoleonic wars and less successfully at the siege of Baltimore during the war of 1812.  These were the rockets alluded to in the American National Anthem.

Why are they poor time keepers?  The answer lies partly in the way they operate.  The clocks are intriguing to watch as a small ball rolls down a zig-zag path on the pivoted table.  When the ball reaches the end of the path, the table tilts and the ball rolls back the other way.  The tilting of the table is the oscillation that the clock depends on.

The single largest timekeeping problem of these clocks is that the oscillator has no natural period of vibration.  The clock is completely dependent on the time taken between the two trigger levers being moved by the ball. This is, of course, dependent on the time taken for the ball to move down the zig-zag slope.  Any perturbation of the movement of the ball will result in an inaccuracy in timekeeping. It is necessary that the surface of the ball and the groove in the table be kept free of dirt, particularly oil or grease which would increase the friction between the surfaces and slow the ball’s descent.  This is not the only cause of error. To be truly accurate, the ball must take an equal time to complete its movement in both directions on each and every cycle.  Reproducibility is paramount.  A major problem exists in that as the table is lifted the ball begins its descent.  If there is a lack of uniform motion in the gear train of the movement through friction or other means, then the acceleration given to the ball will not be uniform and its rate of travel will be different on each pass.  Congreve was unaware of the importance of this dependency of his clock as opposed to a clock with a pendulum or balance wheel that is oscillating with a natural frequency.

Congreve was also unaware that when the detent wheel is abruptly stopped by the pin hitting the end of the detent lever there is kinetic energy which must be converted.  In John Wilding’s clock design, he places a fly on the detent wheel arbor in an attempt to absorb some of this energy.  Nonetheless, on close examination of the table’s movement in slow motion, the energy in the table as it comes to rest in its new position causes the table as it to “flutter”.  This fluttering will significantly affect the movement of the ball as it starts its downward journey.

Mike Dempsey and Craig White will each be making a Congreve Rolling Ball Clock to John Wildings design.  Further talks at the chapter meets will be given showing our progress.

Future educational talks planned:
November 12 – Tony Zimmer will give a talk and demonstration entitled “Finding the Right Screwdriver”
February 4 – Harry Schultz will be giving a talk on Making a Calendar Wheel
March 10 – Danno will make a Presentation on Renaissance Clocks

We still need volunteers for talks and/or demonstration for 2024.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.  
Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available.  We had some more clocks donated which the chapter will be selling at the silent auction table.

Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks,
Craig

Our next mart is September 17th

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Presidents Message.

We had our second meeting at the new location and it seemed to work out well.  Let me know if you saw something that we need to change to make it work better.

We will continue to need some help setting up and taking down.  So arrive at 9:00 and help setup and stay after the educational talk to help return the room in the condition we found it in.  It will be easier next time now that we know what it needs to look like.
Doors open at 9:00 for setup.  Educational talk at 11:00.  Cleanup at 12:00.

We also need a new secretary.  The main job is just to put this newsletter together.  Please offer to help so no one is overburdened, only takes around an hour per meeting.

Mike Dempsey gave a great talk on CNC machining on a lathe, 3D printer and 2 mills he owns.  They all start with a completely enclosed accurate 3D model of the part you want to make.  Then add some features to allow for location and hold down and parting method.  Lots of experience helps to achieve the final product you are looking for.  CNC machining is a great prototype tool that can easily be modified or tweaked to make a functionally part.

We had $97 dollars in donations from the sale of donated clocks at the May meeting.  Thanks to all that participated.

Additional talks planned are as follows:
Sept 17 – Craig White will be presenting History of Congreve Rolling Ball Clocks, bring one if you have one to show
Nov 12 – Tony Zimmer will give a talk and demonstration entitled “Finding the Right Screwdriver”
February 4 – Harry Schultz will be giving a talk on Making a Calendar Wheel
March 10 – Danno will make a Presentation on Renaissance Clocks

We still need volunteers for talks and/or demonstration for 2024.  Please contact Harry Schulz or myself with ideas or suggestions.  

Free tables!!  A free silent auction table will also be available.  We had some clocks donated which the chapter will be selling at the silent auction table.

Dates for 2024:
Feb. 4
March 10
May 19
Sept 22
Nov 17

Hope to see you all there. 
Thanks,
Craig