HOW TO MAKE A TIMER??? PLEASE HELP ME!!! THANKS

Hello Guest,

Evidently you did not bother to check Wikipedia, or even the CR4 Search facility.

However, I ask you to read the earlier question, about exactly the same subject, right here: http://cr4.globalspec.com/comment/185149

Kind Regards....

Sorry but wikipedia does not go through the process of how a timer is made. i.e. the sequence of events from raw materials to the finished product.

Any other help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Hello Guest,

To follow the sequence of events is going to take several books worth of instructions.

Your "Mechanical Timer" is a complex affair, and quite high level technology.

How to locate iron ore, excavate it, the steel-making process, rolling, casting.

Same for copper.

Same for zinc.

How a lathe is made, to cut screw threads.

How taps and dies are made.

How to make brass, cast and roll it, after you have understood how to make the machinery and processes needed.

Then you need to know how to make drills, files, reamers, pliers, metal-working saws and so on.

And yet we have to understand and obtain all needed before we can start making the mechanical timer.

So, you can see why, for centuries, timers were either water-clocks, and later as sand-filled hour-glasses.

OK, after years of hard labour, much study, and the burning ambition, you are able to commence manufacture.

You have to invent the bow-drill, so you can drill the axle holes.

You have to learn how to make accurate gears.

You have to invent exact measure rule.

Do you see what I mean,every invention stands on previous inventions.

Have a think about what you ask.

Perhaps be more specific in what you ask.

Reply here, with specifics, and you may be assisted.

Kind Regards....

Thank you for your reply ... Assuming all of the interior parts of the mechanical timer are already manufactured, how does one assemble them together to create the final product?

Thank you.

Hello Guest,

OK, so you have all the parts already manufactured, complete with drillings, reamed spindle holes, gears cut, screw threads, polished, checked and ready to be assembled, on the workbench in front of you.

I am understanding that is what you have.

I understand you also have all the tools needed for the assembly, and you do know how to use each tool properly.

Now you need to know which piece goes where, and in the correct order - This means you are either the Designer of the timer, or you have the assembly instructions complete with diagrams, right there before you, to ensure all the needed parts are assembled correctly, without any part being damaged, so that the completed timer shall work correctly.

If you are well-trained, after years of various assembly procedures, you may not actually require an assembly instruction set for a timer you have not seen before.

The experience of working with fine instruments, tools, and assembly procedures over many years will give you the knowledge of which part goes where, and it is an intuitive knowledge, either you have that, or not, it is a special part of the (developed by practice) brain, to do with three-dimensional spatial placement, and hand/eye co-ordination, it is up to you, as I said, not everyone can learn these skills.

You will be needing that steady pair of hands, good eyesight with two eyes, for proper 3D perception, and the ability to use the timer assembly tools as required - This often takes years of practice, to be skilled at such fine assembly work.

Take each part, in turn, following the instructions, using whatever tools are needed, and carefully place each part where it is to be, so that when all are assembled, the timer works correctly.

I trust I have not left out any steps for you, but they are there in all completeness, as far as I am aware.

Hope that assists you.

Advise your progress, or lack of it, right here, thank you.

Kind Regards....

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. You are correct, I do have all the parts for the timer already manufactured, however, I do not have the instructions of how to assembly them together. Do you know where I could find such instructions.

Thank again!

Hello once again, Guest.

Thank you for your interesting questions.

1. You have not advised whether you have the necessary tools to assemble all those parts.
2. Nor have you advised whether your skills needed to use the specialised tools are sufficient.
3. Also you have advised that you are lacking the knowledge of how to assemble the various parts into a fully working Mechanical Timer.

You would normally find the instructions at the Office of the Designer, so in such cases it is always best to contact the Designer directly, requesting a copy of the Assembly Instructions/Operation Manual.

You have not advised the make of the Timer, and if you deign to do so, perhaps proper assistance may be given you.

Of course, if you believed in the Theory of Evolution, you could just place all your parts into a container, and shake them around for a few million years, until they assemble themselves, every part still perfect, into the correct places, and you then finally have a fully working mechanical timer, along with your kind self, who now knows exactly how it is supposed to work.

Better still, should you have enough parts for several timers/a windup mechanical watch/some millions of pieces of type/the parts for a wind-up linotype machine/paper/ink/other sundry items as required, then the simple action of shaking all those parts together for a few million/billion years should give you the following:

• Several Mechanical Timers, in pristine condition, all in full working order.
• A pocket watch, ditto.
• A linotype machine which you need to wind-up periodically, ditto.
• A full printed copy of Encyclopaedia Britannica, ditto.
• Spares for all above, ditto.
  

That is the way the Theory of Evolution works: Non-aware, non-living parts (atoms) just somehow assembled themselves into higher and higher orders, which is in complete opposition to the well-established and scientifically proven Law of Entropy.

I look forward to your reply, with considerable interest.

Kind Regards....