Let's Build a Knex Ball Machine - Ep 1 - The Lift
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Hello everyone! This is the start of a new series that will cover me building a new Knex ball machine that will be on display at Blocks to Bricks. In these videos I'll cover why I build things, how I come up with the design, and what I do to fix the various problems that arise.
In this first episode, we first get a look at the basic plan for the machine and get to building (and finishing) the lift.
I hope you enjoy!
Music by Approaching Nirvana
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1. Lapse
Link:
fanlink.to/inq
2. Mountains (Instrumental)
iTunes link:
bit.ly/1pCHE68
Ooh this is gonna be a sick series! Looking forward to it!
It actually looked really cool when the balls went down the helix
Indeed, that's the first thing I had to do right after the tubing went on.
Instructions weren't clear, got my pet lobster stuck in the toaster
I didn't know your foot was also a lobster.
Shadowman39 no sir those are my hands.
Yes !!! This is going to be a amazing series
Just 13 seconds into this video and I'm already jealous of your collection.. lol
Shadowman: this ball machine is not gonna we big
Also Shadowman: *plans to make a machine bigger than mine*
This is an awesome idea!
oh this sounds awesome!
Why did you go from red rod based ball machines to a green rod based ball machines
I'd say because they look 10 times better
My machines are still technically red rod-based, it's just that they get covered in green rod paneling. The support structures usually stay as red rods.
Can you plz make a video building the skeeball machine
6 feet and still stands straight, knex always amaze me.
Are you gonna ever make instructions?
HOW do you get so much knex
This is gonna be fantastic
I have the same gear ratio and same motor but my lift doesn't run as fast. I have tried 2 motors and different power supplies. must be friction or something else. Any ideas?
Either there's more friction or the motors are different speeds than mine. I haven't measured my motor speeds so there's no way to tell for sure.
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I noticed that the 2 strands of tubing on the helix are at different depths compared to your instructables from a few years before. Is this more reliable?
Yes, I made this newer version where the strands act as a track instead of just stacking them. The newer one still has issues if it's made too fast, so I want to make a version 3 someday.
Shadowman39 where do you get all your pieces from?
Most of them came from eBay as used lots, I haven't bought any for some time now.
Hey shadowman39 what are the odds you could do instructions on how to build this inverted helix lift at this height?
Holy shit how many pieces do you have? I'm trying to do an inventory of mine and I'm nowhere near that collection.
It's about 75k pieces right now, I did an inventory at the beginning of the year.
@@Shadowman39 Wow. That's worth a lot of money whenever you sell it if you do.
@@Shadowman39 I'm also curious. How do you build stuff for museums? Do you just ask them or do they contact you? I may want to build something for some place where I live but don't know what that would look like.
@@JustaHappyPotato They contact me, there aren't much local museums around where I live so I never attempted to contact any. You could always try it though.
25 seconds in and im sold. Have been building Lego for a few years now as i wanted more of a small detail building challenges and a new hobby. Growing up ive always loved building knex ball machines and you sir are an idol of mine when it comes to intricate ball machines. Been following you for years, I promise you im now going to be getting out all my old pieces as you have deffs inspired me and I look forward to watching the new series and for even more in depth vids :D Thanks heaps #shadowman39
Glad you like my machines and that you're inspired to start building again! I've built Lego some too but always go back to Knex, haha.
Oh nice, you're a Gators fan!
Haha, that's been there for many years, I used to follow them when I was younger.