Marble Machine Lifting Mechanism

Take a look at these awesome videos to get a few great ideas for lifting the balls of your own marble machine.

Marble machine lifting mechanism.

This time it s a marble climbing machine with plans. Trying out yet another marble lifting technique for the top lift of the marble machine x. The marble often bounced out of the machine so i added catch nets made of dowels. Each of these plans has an instruction showing the detail assembly of the project.

My fascination with gears mechanisms marble machines and history formed my inspiration for this model. Marblevator mechanisms is the latest in my marblevator series of marble machines and features the quickest marble lift mechanism i ve ever designed. Drawn plans for many of the marble machine projects on this website. This automation could in theory lead to gains in productivity as people are now freed up to pursue more productive goals.

Marble machines are complicated but useless pieces of toy machinery that automate the process of playing with marbles. Marble machine regenschiff rain ship 2009. Last weeks solution failed as it became uglier than allowed. Thanks dug it is with great pleasure that i inform you that steve good proprietor of the scrollsaw workshop has created downloadable plans and a three part video series to help you make the hand cranked marble machine shown here.

If you can get it to the top gravity will do the rest. A marble lift is any device designed to move a marble from the bottom of your machine to the top. On payment you will be able to download your plans immediately or you will receive an e mail from us with instructions to complete your download. There are endless ways to lift a ball high enough to get your marble machine running.

What is a marble lift. Take a sheet of paper and draw out some ideas. Looks like a fun project to make with or for the kids. Added base 2 stl with a slightly longer track.