Time For A Hobby - Clocks
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This article was kindly written for the SDC by member Alan G.
As we get older and settle into retirement, everybody seems to tell us we need to ‘stay active’ – physically and mentally, and they’re probably right. Apart from the usual 30-minute-a-day walk around the block, one way to keep one’s brain active (and hopefully fend off Alzheimer’s) is to take up or enhance an existing hobby. One of the several hobbies to which I decided to devote more time was clocks.
I can’t really remember when I first became interested in clocks. Perhaps it was a general interest in all things mechanical, stemming from my affinity for Meccano models when I was about 11 years old. I remember that I was sick at the time. We were living in a place called Bradfield Park near Lindfield, as ‘10-pound-poms’. I gave myself the challenge of building a clock out of Meccano and actually succeeded! It didn’t run for very long, ticked unevenly and had to be driven by a huge weight, which I’d made out of a red Meccano cylinder filled with a lot of gears from my ‘gear set’. The clock ran mainly on a gearing made of pulleys, so it would never be really accurate.
Although I don’t really remember it, my younger brother told me the whole place woke up during the night when the weight came crashing to the floor of our hut.
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This article was kindly written for the SDC by member Alan G.
As we get older and settle into retirement, everybody seems to tell us we need to ‘stay active’ – physically and mentally, and they’re probably right. Apart from the usual 30-minute-a-day walk around the block, one way to keep one’s brain active (and hopefully fend off Alzheimer’s) is to take up or enhance an existing hobby. One of the several hobbies to which I decided to devote more time was clocks.
I can’t really remember when I first became interested in clocks. Perhaps it was a general interest in all things mechanical, stemming from my affinity for Meccano models when I was about 11 years old. I remember that I was sick at the time. We were living in a place called Bradfield Park near Lindfield, as ‘10-pound-poms’. I gave myself the challenge of building a clock out of Meccano and actually succeeded! It didn’t run for very long, ticked unevenly and had to be driven by a huge weight, which I’d made out of a red Meccano cylinder filled with a lot of gears from my ‘gear set’. The clock ran mainly on a gearing made of pulleys, so it would never be really accurate.
Although I don’t really remember it, my younger brother told me the whole place woke up during the night when the weight came crashing to the floor of our hut.
Meccano and Me, 1955. Image Credit: Alan G.
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