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JimmyL · #31 12-24-2008, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by bgkast

Clever, but I don't know if I could bring my self to drill a hole in a hub cap. I'm an obsessive collector of pastel blue hub caps. I currently have 11.

Keep an eye out for a few China Blue while you're at it!

JimmyL · #32 02-08-2009, 01:07 AM

Well, I finally made my first Hubbie Clock today. I of course started with a green hubbie although it isn't really the green I was hoping for. [thanks to H-Town for this hubbie though. Good one to start with]
I'm not as happy with the color of the hands as I would have hoped either, but you gotta start somewhere. Perhaps a second hand of a different color, maybe Chad's red.

without camera flash

This of course isn't its final resting place, just a bit of open wall to get an idea. I imagine the wife will have it banished to the garage....

Was very easy to make. I simply used a punch and hammer to start my hole in the center, then just enlarged drill bit sizes until I hit 5/16. Waxed and polished the hubbie then installed clock guts and the hands. Took about 15 minutes I guess....

JimmyL · #33 02-08-2009, 10:01 AM

Found it laying in the middle of my desk this morning with the old clock back up on the wall.
Out to the garage it goes..........

Chad300tdt · #34 02-08-2009, 10:29 AM

Looks good Jimmy. Sorry you can't hang it in the house.

Here's a few more I just made.

This one is daw's:

This one is TheDon's:

This one is my fintail clock. I think I'm going to hang it in my glass studio:

I'm making 11 more like daw's clock (some blue, some red, some unpainted) and 3 more like TheDon's.

I'll post them all when they're ready to ship to potential owners.

TheDon · #35 02-08-2009, 10:39 AM

The Bundt Version is a limited edition version

JimmyL · #36 02-08-2009, 02:59 PM

Wow, that Bundt version looks best of all. I really like the red hands on that one. Certainly looks better as a clock than on a car.......

Chad300tdt · #37 02-08-2009, 05:34 PM

The hands on all the clocks I've made have been "glow orange". The flash and angle of the shot seems to alter the color in my pics.

I guess I should really be setting up controlled light shots on a solid background. In reality, the color is closest to the bundt clock's hands, but not quite as red.

daw_two · #38 02-09-2009, 10:16 PM

Hey Chad!!!

This "might" be a better pic of my clock. Now, IF my "painter" (aka wife) will get my office painted a better color.....

Oh, wait. Maybe, Jimmy, wants this wall color.

I might have to trim the hour hand a bit though --- I get confused on the time, sometimes. I really LIKE the sound of it, though.

It was a very nice surprise when I got home last night from The Parthenon.

JimmyL · #39 02-09-2009, 10:19 PM

My clock guts are not working correctly. I am not pleased......

Chad300tdt · #40 02-09-2009, 10:24 PM

COOL!! I'm glad it got to you safely daw.

I trimmed the hands for my fintail clock with a tin snips. It worked great. I tried a pair of dykes first and they didn't work great.

What's happening Jimmy?

You didn't try to adjust the time by spinning the hands did you?

Make sure the hands aren't bent and binding every time they pass over each other.

daw_two · #41 02-09-2009, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

COOL!! I'm glad it got to you safely daw.

I trimmed the hands for my fintail clock with a tin snips. It worked great. I tried a pair of dykes first and they didn't work great.

What's happening Jimmy?

You didn't try to adjust the time by spinning the hands did you?

Make sure the hands aren't bent and binding every time they pass over each other.

The hands were bent a little in shipping. I might have to teach you how to pack these things. Good try, though.

Adjust the time by spinning the hands?

Isn't that the way you do it? I did.

Chad300tdt · #42 02-09-2009, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by daw_two

The hands were bent a little in shipping. I might have to teach you how to pack these things. Good try, though.

Adjust the time by spinning the hands?

Isn't that the way you do it? I did.

There's a little dial on the back of the clock works that you use to set the time.

I thought for sure that those cardboard wedges would keep them safe.

JimmyL · #43 02-09-2009, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

What's happening Jimmy?

You didn't try to adjust the time by spinning the hands did you?

Make sure the hands aren't bent and binding every time they pass over each other.

There not binding, but as the minute hand works past 12 and starts down it will all of a sudden drop, like the drives slip. It isn't the hand slipping it is the mechanism. And no, I didn't move it with the hands. It also stopped today with the second hand just bouncing in place. Again, no binding or overlapping of the hands and the battery had 1.599 volts.
Will swap in my second clock guts and see what happens.....
And daw, almost half of the inside of my whole house is painted pea soup green. I like it on MB's, not so much on the walls......

daw_two · #44 02-09-2009, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmyL

And daw, almost half of the inside of my whole house is painted pea soup green. I like it on MB's, not so much on the walls......

My office is more this green I think. Came in our house and wife is working full time, so she doesn't have time to paint. Before she went back to work, there were lots of days, I would come home from work and get lost in the house ---- walls were different color than when I left to go to work in the morning.

Chad300tdt · #45 02-09-2009, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmyL

There not binding, but as the minute hand works past 12 and starts down it will all of a sudden drop, like the drives slip. It isn't the hand slipping it is the mechanism. And no, I didn't move it with the hands. It also stopped today with the second hand just bouncing in place. Again, no binding or overlapping of the hands and the battery had 1.599 volts.
Will swap in my second clock guts and see what happens.....
And daw, almost half of the inside of my whole house is painted pea soup green. I like it on MB's, not so much on the walls......

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