02-19-2019, 08:38 PM
(02-19-2019, 03:37 PM)Vinny Wrote: That's true from a physics standpoint, but not for a clock. I read a lengthy article that explained why but got lost about halfway thru. I woulda been better off only reading 1/3 of the article since I understood what they were saying then. But when they went into detail ...Whatever they were saying must have been true since I put the old bob back on and it's keeping time again.
Interesting you say this because what I have read is that weight should not effect the time period but length will. I know when I built two clocks there were different pendulum designs/weights available for the same mechanism but they were all about the same length. All I had to do was adjust the small nut at the bottom of the pendulum to either shorten or lengthen it. Very little movement could change the timing by quite a bit.
Harold