Marble Strike Movement Explained

This vid is to show in a haphazzard way of simulated time laps how the mechanism is intended to work.
This is a Clayton Boyer design but I'm the second luck victim to build it.

[@moalanikai]

Excellent video showing how you can 'time lapse' twelve hours of clock motion and compress it into a seven minute video. Cudos!

[@emorag]

Stunning work. Love this.

[@fortun8diamond]

I like how you don't need more trains to perform striking. It works kind of like a countwheel, because it can go out fo sync, but syncing is easy. just place the right number of marbles on the top shelf.

[@GroundHOG-2010]

Oh wow. So it's just a series of speciflcly placed holes, with the first one offset inside so it can only pick up the lower marble track, the others pick up from the upper track. So the next time it lifts 1 more than the last time. Then it dumps it all to the bottom track after getting to 12 in the upper.

[@leifvejby8023]

Thanks a lot for demonstrating. I have wondered how it "counted" the marbles to use!

[@ouraN2O]

Yeah I answer you 6 years later but why not haha. When the marbles strikes the bell they didn't go with the others marbles, they go on top of their. After one hour the first hole pick-up a marble that is on the bottom and all the marbles that strikes the bell the other hour. Imagine it was 8 so there is 8 marbles on the middle "floor" and 4 at the bottom. The hole pick one of the 4 at the bottom and pick the 8 other that are in the middle. So 9 marbles will be striking the bell. N+ 1 every hour. And after 12 hours the marbles go at the bottom and so on and so on. Really sorry for my explanation that is very bad I think but I'm only 14 and on top of that I'm French 😅

[@leifvejby8023]

@@ouraN2O Thank you, and no need to excuse anything - and certainly not your English! Thanks again!

[@ywmpg]

What a great video! It took me till you got to about 5:00 till I figured it out! NICE!!

[@Dirk1961]

Hey! What about creating an extended mechanism in order to perform quarter striking, too? I'm coming from Germany where most of the church clocks use to strike once, twice, 3 or 4 times to announce every quarter on a smaller bell. After striking the 4th quarter, the tower clock starts to chime the hours on a bigger bell. And so it is in other countries, too. Take another 10 marbles (1+2+3+4=10), and when the last of these marbles has reached the arrival bar, the complete weight forces the bar to go down and activates the hour strike mechanism. Or try to find a solution with at least four marbles for quarter striking (1 or 2 or 3 or 4) which follows exactly the same principle as for the 12 hours on the existing clock. If any physical law allows to make a quarter striking mechanism become reality and to fix it on the right side of the clock, so let's image the following situation: After the 4th quarter striking is over, one special marble is running over to the left side in order to activate the hour chiming mechanism there. Also be sure to find a way to make the clock mechanism let this or another special marble roll back to the right side within the following

[@arrabayobachkar3156]

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[@arrabayobachkar3156]

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[@clarencenoring4985]

I like this, what are you doing with the Marble Strike Movement know? Did you design the movement yourself. Thanks for sharing

[@robertgift]

Wonderful! Can the marbles ring the bell without a clapper being necessary?

[@sth128]

Cool clock.

[@edwardmarinorozco4596]

me gusto mucho y me gustaría mas saber como puedo adquirir los planos para fabricarlo

[@freddyhvt9764]

Hola te felicito por tan excelente trabajo. Lo vendes? Cuanto vale?

[@JCraftvfx]

I'll be starting up on this clock soon. For the wood, were you actually using plywood or did you plane down the wood to the required thicknesses as the plans call for? looking at the plywood in places like Homedepot, the thickness are not truely 3/4", 1/2", 1/4" like they claim they are...

[@rlrsk8r1]

Very cool demonstration. How do you wind this clock?

[@kikemateo56]

Extraordinario

[@richardwherry5515]

So clever

[@miljenkodelcanto5162]

Are there any plans available for this clock?

[@JohnS-hp2xu]

Lisaboyer.com I think

[@BenoitLahlou]

Why don't you knock directly the bell with marbles, instead of the hammer pushed by marbles? Pourquoi vous ne sonnez pas directement la cloche avec les billes, au lieu d'utiliser les billes pour pousser le marteau?

[@BenoitLahlou]

This is an impressive mecanism! I like so much. C'est un mécanisme impressionnant! j'aime énormément.

[@ywmpg]

I think that would be a good idea too. You'd have to be sure they would go in the right place after they strike, also..

[@BenoitLahlou]

And the right speed too, to knock correctly the bell... Et la bonne vitesse aussi, pour taper la cloche correctement...

[@kontokonto2936]

Great!

[@MyZafado]

Great, tk

[@marilanmansion6587]

Amazingggggg

[@raymondzhao9557]

Interesting

[@luispadilla7519]

Genial