Since the 1860s, better quality windup mechanisms have used a clutching mechanism, called a bridle, that prevents the mainspring from overwinding. If he was designed to rampage at the Great Exhibition, Moustachio predates the invention of the bridle clutch by about a decade.
Heh, it’s like he’s drunk!
Nice references to *Through the Looking Glass*!
And my favorite poem from it too.
…you know, I’m getting kind of concerned here actually.
He’s going to snap a spring!
I guess he was built before the invention of the mechanism they use to prevent over-winding.
What mechanism is that? You wind any spring too much – even today – it’s going to snap.
Since the 1860s, better quality windup mechanisms have used a clutching mechanism, called a bridle, that prevents the mainspring from overwinding. If he was designed to rampage at the Great Exhibition, Moustachio predates the invention of the bridle clutch by about a decade.
Someone should probably just bolt an electric motor to his back to wind him up automatically.