Fresnel lens drive clock complete and running!

[@DFowleezy]

You are great with old machines and steam engines. I saw another KZbinr Alex Steele recently struggling to get a 1900s steam hammer restored. Might need your help haha

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Very cool! Beautiful piece of machinery there. 😎

[@michaelwautraets7126]

this knowledge and all knowledge of steam engines of any kind must be preserved at all cost, you never know when (not if) it might be actually needed again. I am glad that you are doing this. I've discovered you through The Proper People's channel by the way.

[@AEKarnes]

Considering I run a state hospital power plant using high pressure steam to drive turbines, it is needed right now and more than ever. Thank you!

[@pkjmfineart1593]

Brilliant work by all! Thank you for posting.

[@graveneyshipright]

Another fine restoration and the sound alone is superb! well done Mr Karnes.

[@aleks_jones]

Shes purring like a kitten now. Amazing work, thanks Alex.

[@AEKarnes]

It should be running silent, but sadly I had to do a lot with damaged gears and bad allignment

[@ms.cynthia5055]

I could listen to you talking about this stuff for HOURS.

[@AEKarnes]

I am positive you'd get bored after the 8th hour....

[@stuartrich4574]

I would love to sit next you whist dining, the conversation would be so interesting. Great video

[@Lighting_Desk]

What a gorgeous little movement. Absolutely fascinated by all thimgs of this nature. Your passion and dedication for restoration is admirable.

[@nouseforaname5378]

Absolutely beautiful

[@tedcowart3647]

Beautiful! Looks and sounds fantastic! Great job!

[@GearsAndBricks]

Stuff like this really gets me going. I’ve wondered before if this is similar to how the much older lighthouses worked that had candles inside? Anyways, thanks for sharing this. I’m glad older brilliant technology is still alive and kicking in some circles. I’m always an advocate for keeping that stuff around. Great job.

[@AEKarnes]

Candles were before the days of the Fresnel lenses and drive clocks. By then they were using some high performance and at times very complex oil and gas burners. Look for "IOV" on my channel, this stands for Incandescent Oil Vapor and I restored such a burner to work for the same person, and videoed it here

[@burlatsdemontaigne6147]

What a nice project! Thanks.

[@brushnut1909]

Absolutely amazing

[@richardtravilnguyw3492]

Great work Alex!! Rich would have loved this!

[@TurboTimsWorld]

Great rebuild, I think I have asked before but in the UK our light houses have the lenses arranged so they send a "morse code" type flash so yours was a Flash . flash . flash. but by adding a blank or even an angle to the lens stack you could have falshflash...flash .flash by knowing the code on board a ship you know which light house you was looking at.

[@AEKarnes]

Not just the UK, everywhere in the world! And not just flash length or code but also color. There are flashes, group flashes, color changes, occultations, morse code letters/numbers, etcetera....

[@rhavrane]

Bonjour Alexander, Great job ! At what time intervals should the mechanism be wound to obtain continuous movement, I am thinking of the lighthouse keeper who will have to get up at night...? Amicalement, Raphaël

[@AEKarnes]

Rapahael, that depends entirely on the height of the tower available or length of he weight column and cable. In some short lighthouses, the weight column was drilled in a shaft into the tower foundation to extend its run. Typical wind times were every 2 to 4 hours. Also depends on how fast the clock is designed to run the lens, faster lens meant more torque needed and shorter weights to bottom time elapsed

[@douglasmcdermott2830]

How often would it need to be wound? It looks like weight was dropping fairly fast

[@scowell]

In a lighthouse you have plenty of height! Fairly certain the wound chain drops, like a cuckoo clock... the higher you are, the more time you have. Here there's not much.

[@enginecrzy]

It flashed me...

[@bitrage.]

Hey Karnes, I'm a 3D Computer Animator/Modeler, what's one of the nicest steam engines in terms of looks n whatnot??? I want to model, shade, render out one for a project....

[@AEKarnes]

Alfred De Glehn's 221 for the NORD railway, or the Austrian class 310, Bavarian P4 or S 2/6.

[@bitrage.]

@AEKarnes thank you sir!!!

[@devinmartin7626]

Knocked another out of the park.