I m just using a table saw drill press and bandsaw to build this marble pump.
Marble pump lifter.
Marble lifter i wanted a mechanical marble elevating device to go with the marble toy ramps.
There are endless ways to lift a ball high enough to get your marble machine running.
If you can get it to the top gravity will do the rest.
When i first built this marble pump i milled it out of a solid block of maple using my slot mortiser.
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.
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Looks like a fun project to make with or for the kids.
So i came up with another sort of marble pump.
The lifter expansion set takes your marble run experience to a whole new level with over 25 additional elements.
Take a look at these awesome videos to get a few great ideas for lifting the balls of your own marble machine.
All of the vacuum lifters can be used on granite marble travertine limestone blue stone all landscape stone as well as steel and other sheet materials.
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Marble toy blocks part 2.
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The ball lifter you must defy gravity first.
Once the marble reaches the bottom raise it up to 3 levels higher using the lifter accessory.
This is my prototype of a rotary marble lift for a marble machine.
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He can handle more customers with less people around so his profits skyrocketed.
This time it s a marble climbing machine with plans.
At the left of the photo is the marble pump from my modular marble machine.
This one works with a piston on a crankshaft see here and here but the cranking necessitates that.
For making your granite shop more efficient and thus more profitable every detail matters helping sam to improve more his granite shop we recommended him to install stone vacuum lifters and the results he got are impressive.
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.
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