Marble Pump Lego

A new ball takes a place beneath another ball and then pushes them up.

Marble pump lego.

They don t fit into standard 2x2 lego dots marble pumps. Unfortunately most of the site is in german but the pictures are usually illustrative enough and i think it s a good source of information for ball machines in general not only lego ones. All the observer sees is that marbles fall. Pumps every time one ball.

The pump is always the thing that looks like magic because the pump itself occupies a very small space. The lego marble machine it all started christmas 1996 when my brother markus pulled out the big box of legos at home and we started building various little machines again. Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996. The marble pump is compatible with lego duplo bricks and designed to use with hubelino marble tracks.

Second i show you how is designed the marble pump witch lift the marbles from the finish to the start of the hubelino tracks. Lego great ball contraption gbc module with a simple pump mechanism. If you think you have the time and patience to assemble your own gbc with near clockwork precision verbeek has made the plans available to download. The marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1.

Controls the lego gbc. Can pump up to 3 marbles. Markus posed the problem of building a marble pump which would elevate marbles by adding marbles to the bottom of a column of marbles and push them up. Lego gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed.

A pump is one of the most classic gbc great ball contraption modules but is indeed difficult to get right one of the best illustrations i know is on this site. Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump. First i explain you how i made 3d printable parts which fit the duplo bricks. I built a 3x3 version narrowing it to 2 5x 2 5 with serveral tricks because 3x3 would be too wide.

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