Why Are 1000 Marbles On This Red Towel? 

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not more practical instruments!

It is a dark world where practically in art reigns.

@@slightlyevolved I predict that in 100 years marbleless music won't exist as anything but a vague, embarrasing memory. Making music without marbles will be seen as something similar to balancing humors with bloodletting. This will be a brighter world, a better world, not the world we deserve but the world we desire.

@@Wintergatan_2 I think that cyber bass is actually one of the most practical and cool electric basses out there

From experience working with finicky instruments, those microfiber towels work great with glass and metals. Quick dry and don't leave a fibers all over everything.

Alternately using the high pressure air to dry the marbles would dry the marbles quickly without inducing rust

And make sure the marbles are thoroughly rinsed. 'Yes' washing up liquid degreases well but contains a lot of salt.

yikes, i thought it was only a hair dryer and I still had an internal 'nooooooooo' moment when I saw he was heat-drying the marbles

I through the he was gonna lift the towel up and shake it around to dry it then I saw the paint stripper and I cried, poor thousand marbles

He needs the original black ball also you can’t anodize stainless steel ball bearings.

@@TankToChest I did not know that! 🤔 Thanks! How about an aluminium marble??

@@camerondrew9402 non-magnetic, which would cause trouble in the wheel lift.

@@peevester9987 Depending how much chrome & nickel is in the stainless steel it also can be non-magnetic.

@@TankToChest Martin’s are rusting, so they’re more likely a chrome or carbon steel. But still won’t anodize, as you said.

Yup. Engineers are probably the opposite of perfectionists. We want what is the most efficient, not perfectz

What kind of alcohol? Isopropanol?

Im a bit worried about the last part

Yes, isoprop alcohol is the best cleaner/degreaser, or acetone for really oily things (such as bike chains). I suspected the graphite powder was going to become an issue as all the marble paths are becoming dirty and it spoils the look of the machine.

The dish soap he used is salted. It’s used for abrasive. He washed the marbles in salt water. Us bikers use unsalted cleaners on raw metal engine casings.

@@TheDasHatti the V2 rocket was powered by alcohol and an oxidizer. They had to taint the alcohol with something poisonous to prevent the engineers from drinking it.

Yeah that makes sense

an entire

Martin has hard time not being the Martin he is. He just has to be he and it works out just fine :-)

Also rust particles WILL catalyse more rust on other marbles

Use vinegar to clean marbles

@@mapimp1 this is terrible advice do not use vinegar to clean steel. Vinegar is an acid that will definitely cause more rust.

its not a problem to use soap our water, its the clean metal that rust, even if they're not in water. (rust is an reaction with oxygen, so air is bad as well) and that's why they come coated in oil. Better to phosphate the steel with zinc or something. see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphate_conversion_coating vote up to let him know and find a good chemist to help (nile red - youtube ?)

Martin really should rename the channel to Wintergatan Daily.

He should make a video named "The end of Wintergatan Wednesdays" on the main channel to announce these daily updates. Would get loads of views and a lot of new people will find Wintergatan 2!

Yep. This video was of higher quality than some of the main channel content. So much for being quick check-ins.

rip

Same

same

Same hahahaha

Yeah, totally ghetto AF

Or rather: Martin: "Here, issue fixed, but in a way that could come back to horribly haunt me later on".

And that friction is worse if the marbles have rust or feel "gluey"

Absolutely. The overrotation lanes work if the marbles aren't mashed into them and can roll under their own gravity. But with pressure introduced the marbles will get pressed into the lane and become wedged.

To hear so much useful and understandable information from Willy Wonka.. :D

What if the grease is getting mixed with the graphite though? Would some sort of lacquer or electroplating be an option?

@@iAmTheSquidThing I dont think electroplating is a valid option as you need to cover your marble one at a time thus the process would be extremely long and the surface of your marble still wont be smooth (you need an electrical contact to your marble do this and contact points wont be covered), same smoothness issue with lacquer. I think the first film on the marbles is due to graphite powder and though it causes some issue with marbles sticking one another you should think about it as the casual state for your marbles, this film will get back on your marbles over time no matter what you do (unless you delete the parts involved)

Vinegar actually causes rust to form faster, so it's not ideal to use it for rust removal on a bunch of tiny things all at once (no idea on other acids, but I can speak from experience about vinegar since I use it to descale stuff I smith). At this point, formulated rust remover/converter is probably the best course of action, and/or maybe a fine medium in a tumbler.

@@andrewf3823 It occurs when your vinegar is overused/not fresh enough, in good conditions it only desolves Fe2O3 (solid) in Fe3+ (liquid) following the reaction Fe2O3 + 6H+ => 2Fe3+ + 3H2O however if possible, use Chloridric acid or industrial rust remover obvi

so true!

YES

Heyy are you good?

@@royhoutman9809 all good. Thanks for asking

Second that!

I'm just amazed he convinced Xerxes to do his VO

I believe "epic" is the word you were looking for

I think the word you’re looking for is “epic“

Confirmed: The word he was looking for was definitely 'epic'

Lol i thought i clicked the wrong video when it played

Blew the entire budget on that intro :)

@@C4pt41nN3m0 2 is the new 1

@@rpyrat It's like Vsauce. Martin is pretty much retired, expect a Wintergatan 1 video every couple of years. Martin at Wintergatan 2, and Martin at Wintergatan 3 will be posting regularly though.

@@Wintergatan_2 You should rename this channel to "Wintergatan Daily".

@@billkeithchannel then he would have to post something daily and not get a break!

I was just thinking about this as well.

He has the parts already this time

There are some really genius ideas on the MMX discord for better control of the marble heights that I hope Martin will use, it would save having to CNC new blocks

@@zack3135 yeah. He NEEDS to ditch the height modules. It's way too finicky and I think probably too sensitive to things like humidity.

the first thing that came into my mind.

Wintergatan 3 is on it's way

... and the worst : magnetized/demagnetized several times a day.

This is why welding has to happen under inert gas

The rule of thumb for chemistry is twice the reaction speed for every ten degrees Celsius. 30 degrees = 2*2*2 = 8 times faster...

The dish soap he used is salted. It’s used for abrasive. He washed the marbles in salt water. Us bikers use unsalted cleaners on raw metal engine casings.

I used to do a lot of spray painting for a living and oil from the compressor was a constant pain.

In Germany we call that „Ölabscheider“ which means Oil separator but in this case to divorce and to separate is the same word in German so it divorces your equipment from oil which is kinda nice.

5£ for crisps?

@@Stephan1988 erm... corporate embezzlement?

@@harrytaylor9564 😂

Marble Machine Y; there's been plenty of references to it throughout the series.

Thats why most things are cad designed and not just slapped to together

"Why build one when you can build two at twice the price? Only this one can be kept secret."

@@taotriad yeah, I remembered him referring to it, but it seemed a throw away comment. I guess somewhere along the line it became real!

It was announced a while ago (1 year almost?) that this is merely the prototype or development version. I think at some point he wants to get it all manufactured at a factory, so an mass-produced army of 10,000 MMX machines can start roam the earth. Then his future son will have to travel back in time to stop their inevitable destruction of the human race. Exciting eh?

Good luck on that test!

In my case, my teatcher dont come tomorow beacaus of the snow :) So I dont have to pass my expression orale !!! 🎉

Thanks! Love these videos. They work as a great way to clean the mind and think of something different for a minute.

Procrastination! Woo!

@@naso4265 shyys!

Bob Ross II of Plywood is looking good though!

MM V MMX

That was a too easy fix for a mega mole. I want to see when you get back to the bass.

Din dun dun

Of course it will! There are many different good ideas on the Discord of solutions for making marbles in the same height on the top, with no need to have adjustments. Unfortunately, Martin seems to be stuck with the modules for height adjustment.

Was just thinking that

We have a variety of modules. And this is the working prototype, not the final travel design. Of course it'll have a few flies in the works, it's buggy :D

@@glenmcgillivray4707 if this is the prototype then I guess that makes the first one a proof of concept... right? 🤔

@@octaviousenterprise perhaps, or a prototype of a different design. Don't forget it was scrapped and only core concepts were retained. Lessons were learned of this first attempt that succeeded, here Martin seems to intend to plan to build a final functional design, which is great, buuut he is still learning what does and does not work, building new components as he goes and literally developing new proofs of concept. The prototype that follows the initial prototype looks far more like the finished design, but rarely includes everything the final requires. For instance the nonsense of the too narrow lanes on the marble divider, which in turn made the size of the note management linkages, the pipes are 10 mm and the holes 8. He didn't know what pipe he would end up finding that worked, how could he understand he was making a poor choice that would haunt him for the rest of his creation? He built his Grosstraktor. Now he is developing the panzer 1. Next time we will have a more refined Panzer 2. I'm terrified how impressive his Panzer 3 and 4 designs will turn out, with as much refinement he is stitching in so far, will they be self propelled, marble machines of musical excess? Possibly with speakers activated or articulated by marbles themselves?

THE MEGA MOLE IS GAINING POWER EVERYDAY FEASTING ON BROKEN DREAMS

@@Wintergatan_2 and here he comes, THE UNDERDOG AND HE SMASHES MEGA MOLE DOWN INTO THE GROUND WHERE HE BELONGS!

Also sprach zharatustra

@@Wintergatan_2 does he have a "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"?

I just said the same thing a minute ago! That would be the way to go. A tumbler or vibratory bowl with crushed walnut shells

Wouldn't that also alter the size of the marbles?

@@satansbarman I think not, if you don’t keep them in the tumbler too long. I’d try 24 hrs and check.

Hope he sees these are expensive and a tumbler with a soft media would totally work

@@satansbarman That's why he should use walnut shells instead of a harder medium. Silica will sand off steel, walnut will only touch the softer rust.

SALT! The dish soap he used is salted. It’s used for abrasive. He washed the marbles in salt water. Us bikers use unsalted cleaners on raw metal engine casings.

Martin is incredibly smart and talented but washing so many marbles at once without even trying the planned wash on just a handful first was incredibly blinkered. Even a comparative dunce like me would have done a test wash first as I would have suspected that rust could have started pretty soon after the wash, I'd have also checked out potential salt content in the washing liquid and whether using a hair dryer was a smart move or not. We all make mistakes of course.

Es ist Mittwoch, meine Kerle.

@@LovisPlatz Het is woensdag, jongens!

@@T1mm0s Det är Onsdag, mina vänner!

@@ThinkCleverAndSmart Es Miércoles mis muchachos

Martin didn't realize this wasn't @DMadHacks :P jk, jk

Yep. The dish soap he used is salted. It’s used for abrasive. He washed the marbles in salt water. Us bikers use unsalted cleaners on raw metal engine casings.

They aren't ball bearings, they are bearing balls, or simply steel balls. Word order matters. At 11:15 you can see an actuall ball bearing.

Amarokorama, they aren't marbles, either. So, take your pedantry and fuck off with it.

@@waynec369 It's not pedantic to point out that bearings and balls are two entirely different things. Also, it's perfectly fine to call these steel balls "marbles". Look up the definition if you don't believe it. "A marble is a small spherical object often made from glass, clay, steel, plastic, or agate."

The mmx is a molehill, but it's a beautiful molehill, it's what we're here for

Definitely a Tyler Durden situation.

Because he is Martin Mole-in

One of life’s greatest mysteries

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Yes it is my fellow marble Wednesday friend!

@@lunarbutterfly3394 hey! that line doesn't belong to you, my fellow friend!

@@ManuelGennaroMusic but my fellow friend, we are all fellow friends :)

Martin does not understand the difference between adjustable and modular.

I think you gotta ask Hannes ;)

every video has bloopers already

The dishwashing fluid stabbed him in the back. The dish soap he used is salted. It’s used for abrasive. He washed the marbles in salt water. Us bikers use unsalted cleaners on raw metal engine casings.

I was thinking this too 🤔. Hopefully the different shape is an even increment of marble length.

If he looks to the Discord forum he'll find excellent ideas that are not as fragile as the height adjustment modules are.

But he has the height adjustment modules, so that shouldn't be that big of a deal.

@@vincentguttmann2231 what were the height adjustment modules? I thought they were the same thing

@@vincentguttmann2231 those are cumbersome to switch. Not practical at all.

i assume he took that into consideration :D

Okay, it's the best Intro ever.

i hate you.

Does this comment exist on every MMX video.

*rusted

... and he's getting a little 'rusty'. 😆

😂

😊 Very good.

Good one !

OMG I dont why but it was so hilarius to me

Auto-cleaning and demagnetizing in one step, I like the idea! Though running them through a washing machine after each concert should be easy enough.

My thought exactly

Displacing dust and debris onto the floor (or into a vacuum cleaner) counts as cleaning, though?

@@dnebdal in my opinion it gets it airborne, and he does this right next to the marbles and the mmx... it would have worked better if he had done it outside IMO