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I picked up the electronics tonight and will post more details about the source shortly. The electronics to make the indexing divice came to short of £30. I already had a Nema23 stepper motor and Routout Driver 2.5A which were also used. The Driver is shown below:
This is the indexer:
Apparently the electronics is quite straight [...]

Following on from my last post, I drilled and tapped the larger circular motor bracket disk to accept the M5 bolts that would ultimately hold on the motor. I then bored a hole in the centre:

The Oldham couplings arrived - 12mm one side to lock onto the Rotab shaft and 1/4″ on the other side [...]

I purchased a Vertex Rotary table (rotab/RT) a few months ago and it has seen some good use but I will hopefully use it even more for dividing in cutting my clock wheels. I have purchased the dividing set as an add-on to the rotary table which comes with three plates for easy dividing. I [...]

A slight aside from the actual clock build, after seeing Jere’s watch box for all his parts as he makes them I couldn`t help but want one. Certainly not to Jere’s high standards but should serve me well in my dirty workshop! I have made a compartment at the front large enough for the frame [...]

Here is my idea for a pillar jig so that each pillar is identical size.

I`ve had a break from filing the frame and decided to do the pillars. I enjoyed this little bit of turning!

The bottom two need drilling and tapping in the centre section for the feet but I`ll do that later when I have finished the feet. The ends are tapped M3 and now I need to [...]

We cut the frame on my brother-in-laws bandsaw. He did the job while I inspected, irritatingly, over his shoulder.

The frames now need filing together for a good finish. I spent one hour on one long straight last night so I`m guessing this could be a good few hours more work…

After bolting the plates together yesterday I wanted to fit the locating pins so that the plates can be separated and realigned quickly and accurately. I was worried about doing this as the proceedure involved driving a taper pin through from the front face of the front plate and then polishing it out totally so [...]

I`m having a break from wheel cutting for a few days and I`m going to put some time into the frame. I am roughly following the order that Colin says to put it together in, in his book “Clockmaking for the Model Engineer”.
The frame will need to be cut out of 5mm engravers brass and [...]

I have been fielding a few questions regarding wheather the cutter has sufficient clearance on the front leading edge. This diagram should help clarify the profile of the cutter:

Chris