After a false start on the pallets - mainly due to incompetence in reading a protractor, the pallet arms have been made and the pallets fitted to it, see the picture below.   Now the book says to set the pallet gap to 1.300”, but I know from my existing clock that that’s a wrong measurement, and that my 8 day regulator, using the same escape wheels & pallets has a gap of 1.401”.  I decided to set these to the same, and fit it to the clock directly, rather than disassemble the clock to get the escape wheel out, on the off chance that it would work - or nearly work first time.  Ah, the naiveté of youth!

Well, after taking off the back-cock & slipping the pallets on their arbour onto the clock, they worked - or seem to - first time!  I’m happier than a monkey in a truck load of bananas!  Video of the pallets releasing one tooth at a time below.

That video was using my fingers to move the escapement , the next test is to fit the crutch assembly to the arbour, and try the thing with some weight on it - temporary weights and instead of fusee wire I’m going to use some 80lbs b/s fishing line, a couple of s hooks and a couple of Sainsbury’s shopping bags loaded with scrap metal as weights.  As the weights will be ‘dead hung’ rather than double hung, I’m hoping to get away with less than 7lbs per side, total 14lbs.

Well, blow me down - It worked first time!  A real Heath-Robinson mash up, but, boy, it works!!!!