Looks like a fun project to make with or for the kids.
Marble pump plans.
Volume 20 and whose homemade bandsaw appeared on make.
When i first built this marble pump i milled it out of a solid block of maple using my slot mortiser.
Wandel is selling the plans for fourteen bucks.
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.
Http woodgears ca marbles plans building the marble pump which is at the heart of the modular marble machine.
Marble machines are fun.
This marble pump takes in marbles from one side of the mechanism and pops them out the other.
Matthias wandel whose marble adding machine was featured in make.
It is intended to be used as the heart of more elaborate marble contraptions pumping marbles up through a channel so they can then loop through the machin.
Drawn plans for many of the marble machine projects on this website.
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.
It is also less likely to jam then a previous model i built.
Marble machines are tweaky to debug and take a lot of intuition about mechanisms to get working smoothly.
This time it s a marble climbing machine with plans.
Also see ron walters demonstrating his marble pump.
Interested in building your own.
Update added a picture of the pump installed in the dragon marble reservoir.
The reason i like this pump design is because it doesn t let the marbles clack together when there are no marbles in the feeder.
Until then i will have to settle for the work of some of these marble machine masters.
They have great ideas and amazing wood working skills.
Marble pump 3d print.
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.
How to build the marble pump this is a free 24 minute video to help you build the marble pump part of my modular marble machine plans.
There is something about building a marble machine that makes me feel like i could control the world.
Each of these plans has an instruction showing the detail assembly of the project.
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.