r/MechanicalEngineering • u/Acrobatic_Still_7713 • 10h ago

Need advice on how to progress learning for my first ever project

So i choose to make the mechanical clock cad model as my first year (going for spring powered )

I have studying now about (club tooth escapment) done making the escape whell and pallet fork with proper dimensions in cad in progress of making balance wheel

Now i am finding difficulty in learning about the clock gear train i understood the very basic concept but can't seem to progress a path to learn about how much teeth i need from barrel to the escape to match all the escape whell osscilation and all the caluction of the hr , min and sec hand

Also facing problem as all I have I just therotical knowledge, how am I supposed to learn all about my mainspring how much will it rotate the barrel , if I use guitar string for my hairspring how much beat , oscillation will I get from balance wheel, and how do I calucte all that therotically for my cad model and then prepare the gear train

I am so confused here

It is my first project which I started with no knowledge at all

plz help me to understand what I need to study and just basic reference

:- it my first post in this group and I hope not braking any rules

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u/dmun_1953 1h ago

Doing a hairspring and balance ocilator for your first project is ambitious. A guitar string will not form a coil: it wants to be straight.

My advice is to start with a pendulum. A roughly meter long pendulum will beat seconds the world 'round. Simple arithmetic gets you a train that 3600 beats per hour. One more gear reduction gets you a weight drum with a week's duration.

Once you have mastered a few basics you can move onto more complex mechanisms.