Marble Machine - Ring Gear Lift - Figure 8 Transfer - Vortex Funnel

Marble Machine (definition: A Do-Nothing or Rube Goldberg Type Machine)

August 2015 Re-Edited Video: https://youtu.be/bDkEGQi52Js

This is intended to be an awkward, overly complicated mechanism for the sole purpose of entertainment and to make noise in the process. People seem to enjoy watching gears turn and marbles running around in circles making noise.

There are 16 gears hand-cut from ½" Baltic Birch plywood driven by an electric gear reduction motor.

The mechanism moves 5/8” steel bearings at the rate of 7200 per hour.

Move videos of interest:

Wood Gear Planetary Drive https://youtu.be/dhJw_fQJRdc

Worm Drive Experiment https://youtu.be/kzVYDigmYSI

Gear Head - Working Wood Gear Mechanism https://youtu.be/C5Ir1zZGiF4

Making Movement 123 - Reciprocating Rack Mechanism https://youtu.be/Cas_tOSgz8Y

Видео Marble Machine - Ring Gear Lift - Figure 8 Transfer - Vortex Funnel канала Ronald Walters