Marble Machine Pump Plans

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Marble machine pump plans.

This time it s a marble climbing machine with plans. It s driven by a crankshaft made out of coat hanger wire. This marble pump is an optimized design to make it easier to build. 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.

So i started experimenting with building a more permanent marble machine out of wood. I have not built one yet but i want to. After the christmas 1996 holidays much of which my brother markus and i spent working on better marble machines out of lego i thought it was a shame that the machine we built was only made out of lego. Marble machines are tweaky to debug and take a lot of intuition about mechanisms to get working smoothly.

Looks like a fun project to make with or for the kids. There is something about building a marble machine that makes me feel like i could control the world. When i first built this marble pump i milled it out of a solid block of maple using my slot mortiser. Detailed instruction on building the machine including over 100 photos of the construction.

Http woodgears ca marbles plans building the marble pump which is at the heart of the modular marble machine. But i wanted to make a set of plans available for this marble block set so i needed to find a way to build it using more commonly available machines. I m just using a table saw drill press and bandsaw to build this marble pump. Modular marble machine gears ca.

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. Detailed plans and instructions for building the marble pump plans for the marble run building blocks plans for the marble machine a total of 18 pages of drawings and illustrations. I have since produced a video on how to build the marble pump and have some marble machine plans for sale which include plans for the marble pump. Until then i will have to settle for the work of some of these marble machine masters.

2019 12 22 this marble machine like my marble machine 1 uses a marble pump to elevate the marbles. The pump takes marbles fed into one hole and pushes them up through the other. Each of these plans has an instruction showing the detail assembly of the project.