Kettle Clock

[GrillEasy]

Very neat and creative! I agree with others that numbers are not necessary. Rather useful as well, no more under or over-cooked meat!

[coldkettle]

Wow, nice garage set up!  I've been telling myself I need to get organized with my stuff like that.  Nice work.

I love the smell of a evening cook...

[Mark Schnell]

Agree with no numbers, but would position the vent at 12 o'clock. It's the Movado of Bar-B-Clocks!

Yeah, but then the writing on the vent would be upside down. 

[MartyG]

Oh.     Right.    Duh.      My bad.      Good catch.   

[mcgolden]

This is very cool.  I'm thinking of making one and I was wondering where you got the clock assembly from.

Thanks,

Mitch

You know what time it is...

Edit>> new hands:

 
>> old hands:



 

[MartyG]

I went a little smaller with mine. Goodwill/Salvation Army will usually turn up a few clocks for a buck or two. Mechanisms are easy to swap into a vent.

Stopped by a local Goodwill and found a better mechanism, with a second hand and a wall-bracket - made in USA even. The swap out took minutes:

[SixZeroFour]

Yea any clock store/repair shop should sell them too. They are pretty cheap and you can choose the hands you want to use. Fun project for sure

[LaTuFu]

Hi, my name is Six Ought Four, I'm a kettleaholic. When I first started, I only needed one...

Great job on the clock. I think it looks fine the way it is, the black arms and red second hand sorta remind me of the weber logo anyway.

If anything, I would do wider and longer arms to bring them into scale with the kettle lid.

I like the idea of the thermometer at the 12, too.

[demosthenes9]

Here's a quick photoshop of the hands in white - looks ok but I'm real happy with it as-is!



Thanks for looking.

Instead of painting the entire hand, just do a strip down the center, kind of like the whitewalled wheels.   That or just paint 1/2 to 1inch of the tips white. 

[WNC]

This is great Six! I'd go without numbers!

[SixZeroFour]

Thanks WNC, I kept it without

This is an old thread, my beloved clock has been ticking away for over a year now