I love tht you standardize all your little pieces of track work so tht all of them are interchangeable and I especially love the marble distributing mechanism :D
I'm quite impressed how modular these are, you could just dreate additional tracks whenever and as long as it's measured right, lust plug it right in. gosh, do I have a soft spot for these types of marble machines. :)
This one is very unique and stands out from others. It would be great to see one in a garden hooked to a water wheel. Added this to my list and growing library of machines!
I am really interested in the mechanism that divides up the marbles in the beginning and resets after every four marbles. That all on its own is brilliant!
It would be really cool if the steel balls were painted with "glow-in-the-dark"-colour, and run the machine with the lights off! Still a very cool machine, I am impressed by your work! :)
Awesome! This is by far my favorite video of yours. Now you just need to replace the lifting wheel with a quad "base" system and distribute the bearings to each of the four lifters lol
I wonder what mechanism wears the wood out the most? The balls go around that metal loop awfully fast and are probably wearing that part fast. Thanks for the fun. I love the sound of the whole thing. Very peaceful, like a light rain.
Good fun to watch and pleasantly rhythmical (nice quiet motor :-) ) 5 stars indeed. I really like the direction you took with this build..... You certainly seem to have a great mind for planning ahead. The modular construction method you use makes this all the more a brilliant piece of engineering. Top job! :-) I wonder what direction you will take next?
What would be interesting is to fill it with coloured marbles in the order red, green, blue, yellow for example and then see how they got displaced from their original pattern of only like colours within each of the 4 smaller marble rollers.
Oh man, it took me five minutes to figure out why the marbles weren't falling out of the large gear. There's that metal fencing keeping them in. Seems so obvious now.