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This simple homemade The author of Instructables under the nickname mikeasaurus is interesting in that it allows you to get a funcional analogue of a very expensive product - watches with disks instead of arrows at minimal cost. The master takes the watch purchased in a store similar to the Fix Price as the basis for the design. In "Fix Price" such watches are also found, but more often - in cases of bizarre shapes: a house with a pipe, a classic alarm clock with bowls, etc., and less often in such a minimalistic, square one. Despite the flagrant budget, they have been working with the translator for a year and a half already, there are no signs of wear on plastic gears.



The master removes the watch from the package, and then pulls the mechanism out of the case, which is also the front panel - no tools are needed for this, just pull it:



Then he removes the clock from the watch, after which he unsticks the dial. All arrows, except for indicating the alarm time, the wizard saves - they will be needed later. Well, the clock will lose the alarm function after the alteration (more precisely, there will be nothing to display the time of its operation), so the corresponding switch on the back of the mechanism needs to be turned off and not turned on anymore. And the electromagnetic sound emitter can be picked up for use in other designs.



Then the wizard draws in a graphical editor and displays the image below on the printer. Will you print after him - choose the appropriate scale.

Disc clock


He sticks the printout on cardboard. Corrugated will not work - just dense, but thin. If the printer is inkjet, it is better to glue with glue-pencil, if laser, you can take PVA. There is no printer at all - you can draw discs manually using a compass and a protractor. After waiting for the glue to harden, the master cuts out all the disks: hour, minute and second, from the resulting paper and cardboard “sandwich”:



Exactly in the center of the first and second disc, the master makes holes. But it is impossible to make them of such a diameter so that they hold well on the shafts, in cardboard. This is where the arrows previously stocked come to the rescue.The master makes a hole in the cardboard slightly larger in diameter than necessary, and glues the arrow on the back so that the hole in it exactly matches the center. PVA glue is not suitable here: it needs both surfaces to be porous, and the arrows to be plastic. It is possible to glue with "Moment", "Octopus", "Monolith" and their analogues, as well as hot melt adhesive. The master sticks the corresponding hand to the second disk in the same way, only without making a hole in the cardboard. Having made sure that the disks do not bend, the master puts them on the shafts intended for the arrows glued to them, avoiding distortions. It also shows a side view after the correct installation of disks without distortions. It is also important that the numbers 12 on the hourly dial and 60 on the minute and second after installation are directed straight up. At the same time, there should be no battery in the watch so that the second disk does not move.



Assembly result near:



Then the master returns the watch mechanism to the case and draws along the ruler a thin vertical strip with which the numbers on the disks will be combined. But it is better to hold this strip before the mechanism returns to the case - on the reverse side, so that it does not erase.



Having placed the battery in the watch, the master sets the current time, and now on his desk, and possibly on yours, is simply an amazingly budget analogue of an expensive thing - a disk clock. And it works no worse.

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14 comments
12.35 (Who is more?).
that matter of habit, I instantly see how much time is there

So, who will tell me how much time is there on mine? Or do clues?
Among other things, it is inconvenient that the time should be counted "to the left."
Yesterday, at this time, I finished work on a construction site and was about to leave ... My wife is now working on the second shift (until 11:45 p.m.), Votya is working until half-past eleven, and then on the way I pick her up ...))))
If I had such a watch - I’d get the hell out of it)))) It would take half an evening to decipher what time it is ....)))))).
and you went to sleep ... It’s logical, however

I don't go to bed before an hour and never get up after seven. (Until seven - this is the weekend I allow myself to sleep ...)
He spoke on the bar chair. I didn’t repeat it in the classical way. A carriage coupler is a thing.
This is where you climbed with such a time zone? I have an hour more. Although, some kind of different minutes ... In short, the last glass of beer was superfluous xaxa

So where? Where? Where are you all? I just unloaded the sofas, and you went to sleep ... It’s logical, however
Clearly
Once passed the selection in the group for a specific job. Among other things, we were asked to draw a watch dial. One of those who failed this test asked me what I drew wrong? I answered him. Wherever it went that the hands moved beyond the circumference of the dial, but what for instead of 12 at the top I drew 00 ?! xaxa
Dmitrij
What time is it?
Dmitrij, fear God! I can’t divide 19 into two without a calculator!
Today, 19:02
xaxa
Original!
And here are mine) What time is it? We write through the spoiler !!! To others it was interesting. The last button in the block!


tormozedison
Put anti-parallax device (mirror)
And immediately throw it away as unnecessary! xaxa
Author
Put an anti-parallax device (mirror), as in large Soviet testers.
He looked at the last photo and did not even bother to calculate what time they were showing and how much time was left before the appointed event, for example, before leaving the house for work! Yes, and read the readings must be strictly perpendicular to the dial, at an angle we get a large error due to the remoteness of the arrow from the dial! nea

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