Frame

The main frame of the clock has had a number of elements removed over the years and has changed colour to a neutral and boring off white. Actually, it may have been white when re-painted but faded with time and grime. Added to this it has suffered the attentions of coins thrown by the public who have difficulty aiming at a large pool of water.

We have now returned the Clock to the way Emett intended it. The frame has been stripped, The upper sections have been primed and painted and the main frame, which sits in water, has been thermal zinc sprayed and powder coated.

The return of the frame.

The main frame can be seen here after returning from the powder coating company. It has regained its height and complexity and has discs of steel to form a base. This is a mixed blessing. It will help with stability but the access doors to the atrium at Millennium Point measure only 2100mm high and 2200mm wide. As the frame is 2800mm high 1700mm wide and 2500mm long it will be a tight squeeze to get it in. Much head scratching and measuring of diagonals has convinced us that there is a way of doing this but it did give pause for thought. It was only after we noticed that the frame is shaped that to slide forward and tip back to go under a door head that we remembered where Emett had fabricated it. The Forge at Streat only has a double door of normal height and everything had to be designed to go through it. We needn't have worried, Emett thought of everything!

Primed and ready.

Clock Cube gets its final coat.

Top section of tower is painted.

Mid section of tower is painted.

Control Box goes blue.

Control box door also goes blue.

Brass highlights.

The upper sections of the frame have been painted in the Aircraft Grey Green colour Emett originally chose and the control box is now his chosen blue so that the brass coloured lattices will stand out against it.