Making the World's Smallest Orrery
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Published 2024-05-29
In this video, Mike machines a miniature orrery on his watchmaker's lathe.
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All Comments (21)
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A model that only includes the Sun, Earth and Moon is a Tellurium/tellurion. One that only has the Earth and Moon is a Lunarium. An orrery optionally includes other planets as well
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Next time you cast something small in silicone, remember degassing is only strictly necessary if you are curing at ambient atmospheric pressure. Because your mold was so small, you could have easily put in in a pressure chamber, and put it under pressure. 20-30 psi is great for small silicone parts. Any bubbles are compressed and don't return after the full curing time of the silicon is achieved. Beautiful work. Subbed.
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Can I say just how soothing these videos are. The birds chirping, the mellow voice, the beautiful brass chips. It's heaven.
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i am shocked that you went the extra mile for the small Steel bridge to be rounded over and almost polished, giving tribute to ultra high watchmaking... Weather or not you intended it, i feel extremely honored as a watchmaker
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My crafting involves making molds and let me tell you, a custom machined sleeve for a ball bearing mold is WAY over engineered and I am HERE for it....
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As a Magic: The Gathering fan, and a niche manufacturing Youtube connoisseur, thank you for informing me that an "Orrery" is indeed a real thing. I literally had 0 idea.
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Dude, I mill stuff that ranges from twelve to seventy-five inch OD, so this stuff here looks like outright sorcery. And you manage to get a beautiful finish on those cuts!
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For an 8mm Sun, to scale, the Earth would be about 80 microns, the Moon would be 20 microns, the distance between Earth and the Moon would be ~2.5mm, and between the Sun and Earth would be ~93cm.
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Making such a contraption AND filming makes this almost unbelievable. One of my favourite channels.
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I really appreciate the effort that goes into these videos, not many people will notice many of the details and few will notice how good the audio is but good audio is crucial to make a good video, I particularly enjoyed hearing birdsong in the background, that's a nice touch !
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Beautiful work on a rare tool build. We shared this video on our homemade tool forum last week 😎
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A full solar system reaching out to pluto in this scale would be an amazing project
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8:25 ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Incredible work mate.
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If there is such a thing as visual ASMR, this is clearly an example of it. Do I do any machining? No. Do I plan to do any machining in the future? No. (though maybe CNC) Do I plan to make a mechanical solar system? No. Do I love watching your videos despite all those things? YES!
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100K subs is a crime for this amazing quality of work, hope you explode after this vid.
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Orreries are my absolute favorite mechanical creations. Loved this video, the birds are nice to hear. 🥰
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Your patience alone is remarkable.
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No matter how many of your videos I watch, I'm continuously astounded by the precision and skill that go into these projects. Holy crap. On seeing the final assembly, I wondered, would it be possible to achieve an even smaller one by supporting the bridge on the arbors of the sun and earth gears themselves? There seems to be just enough room there to sneak it in.
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How on earth did you end up in this watchmaking industry? It must be so rewarding to be able to make things this precise and small, and the process looks bloody marvelous! I could absolutely see myself spending whole days hunched over that lathe perfecting the perfect mirrorsmooth finish, down in a basement where I can be free from the heat, the sun, the people, the noise, and the overstimulation of the outside world.
