Marble Pump Lego

All the observer sees is that marbles fall.

Marble pump lego.

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. Pumps every time one ball. The marble pump is compatible with lego duplo bricks and designed to use with hubelino marble tracks. Lego great ball contraption gbc module with a simple pump mechanism.

First i explain you how i made 3d printable parts which fit the duplo bricks. A new ball takes a place beneath another ball and then pushes them up. They don t fit into standard 2x2 lego dots marble pumps. Jack s video blog is cool today because i just perfected my lego marble pump.

I built a 3x3 version narrowing it to 2 5x 2 5 with serveral tricks because 3x3 would be too wide. 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. Great as a starting module as it only uses ordinary parts. Early experiments at building marble pumps out of legos back in 1996.

In order to guide the pieces and the marbles most of the movement and working is hidden from view. 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. Controls the lego gbc. The marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1.

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. 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. Can pump up to 3 marbles. Lego gbc marble pump v3 no motor needed.

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