Mookers has lost his marbles!

[mookers]

I'm crazy and I made this. I didn't count the hours but I can safely say I wouldn't sell it for less than $10,000...

Marble Machine made of scrap and recycled bits.

No batteries or electricity used. Input is by a single hand crank only.

I allowed the purchase of only glue and fasteners; all other material had to be found or salvaged. Looks like a piece of junk, but it's the Millennium Falcon of marble machines.

First video of it completed and running. Kind of hard to video while turning the crank myself. I'll take and edit some better footage eventually.

 

[bogan bob]

wow. Thats some project

amazing result, would have had to have plenty of attention to detail!!

 

[ConnerS]

Nice one! Thats the best thing I've ever seen home made haha.
BTW is that an old hard disk?

 

[mookers]

Yeah the ringing platters are from two hard drives and the winch pulleys are also bearings from a couple of hard drives.

The flying fox carriage wheels are toy skateboard wheels lol

 

[JUSTCRUZN]

LOL thats F'ing wicked, some one clearing needs to get out and drive there legnum more as they has too much time on their hands hahaha

 

[Interloper]

wow thats awesome dude! better than tele

 

[bratwurst_boy]

thats amazing, i can't believe you got it all to work together.

 

[king_panther]

LOL thats F'ing wicked, someone clearly needs to get out and drive their legnum more as they have too much time on their hands hahaha

Someone clearly needs to brush up on their English skills lol..

 

[unclepaulie]

Aww it grew up so fast, I remember the days when it was a flat peice of mdf with some nails lol

 

[JUSTCRUZN]

Someone clearly needs to brush up on their English skills lol..

meh!

 

[Jonson]

Pretty freakin awesome! You should work for Santa.

 

[Guest]

looks awesome davros, been following it on fb and good to see it finally completed!

 

[unclepaulie]

I can't stop watching the video. All the cool mechanical things. Awesome! Definatley going to visit during the next trip

 

[mookers]

Thanks guys. It was certainly a labour of love. Especially from my wife - if she didn't love me she'd probably kill me! lol

 

[JiMi]

love it. well done

 

[Slinz]

That's the best! I used to play with marble mazes all the time as a kid, and this thing is just about the most beastly marble maze ever in the history of everything, great stuff

 

[VOLK]

Like 3D Pachinko, but with less gambling and MORE AWESOME! Nice.

 

[unclepaulie]

project two:

design and build marble with self leveling, front facing camera inside it haha

 

[mookers]

project two:

design and build marble with self leveling, front facing camera inside it haha

You forgot to specify IMAX 3-D

Then watch everyone in the theatre get motion sickness after five seconds...

 

[Tom]

I saw this on Facebook, was very impressive! Great work

I had the colourful plastic marble maze things as a kid, they were a lot of fun haha.. Noisey and fun, just like our cars lol.