Marble Pump Lego

Pumps every time one ball.

Marble pump lego.

The marble pump is compatible with lego duplo bricks and designed to use with hubelino marble tracks. Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump. Can pump up to 3 marbles. In order to guide the pieces and the marbles most of the movement and working is hidden from view.

Lego great ball contraption gbc module with a simple pump mechanism. 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. Great as a starting module as it only uses ordinary parts.

Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996. 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. A new ball takes a place beneath another ball and then pushes them up. 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 gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed. Old lego digital designer. Controls the lego gbc. 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.

First i explain you how i made 3d printable parts which fit the duplo bricks. 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. The pump is always the thing that looks like magic because the pump itself occupies a very small space. The marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1.

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