Woodgears Marble Machine

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Woodgears marble machine.

Construction was from april 20 to june 25 several hours a day. Definitely worth checking out his site and youtube channel if you are into woodworking. I also built a wooden light stand for lighting for making better pictures and video based on a design by john heisz. The marble machine weights 30 pounds stands 30 inches high the base is 19 square and the ring gears are 14 1 2 diameter.

Marble pump marble elevator column enclosure marble run building blocks profiles these images provide templates to use for cutting out or checking the shape of some of your parts. Went over to visit my friend matthias today he runs the woodgears ca website. The moving ramps are based on paul grundbacher s machine etagen. Thanks to paul grundbacher for the inspiration.

I plan to build more marble machines. Http woodgears ca marbleadd a simulation of the machine. Marble run blocks build marble runs. A plastic bottle cap shooter.

Wooden air engine runs off vacuum cleaner. Marble machines are complicated but useless pieces of toy machinery that automate the process of playing with marbles. This automation could in theory lead to gains in productivity as people are now freed up to pursue more productive goals. Mechanical counter like old car odometers.

Marble machine 2 1 is a new and improved version of my old marble machine 2 that i build in 2000. People often asked for plans for that machine but the machine was totally cobbled together one piece at a time so it wasn t the sort of thing i could draw plas for. Jenga pistol the game of jenga will never be the same. Building instructions the plans include an extensive writeup on how to build the marble pump marble run building blocks and marble machine.