Metal Wire Marble Track

This steel track marble run video is the ultimate step by step guide for anyone who has the tools and equipment including galvanized steel wire a fine tip soldering iron a drill needle nose pliers wire cutters small metal spring clamps rulers and more.

Metal wire marble track. Rolling ball machine simply put is a roller coaster just for marbles. This flat spiral serves to slow the marble down. A two rail track twists and turns its way around through under and sometimes over any number of elements and surprises. Daniel previously built a room size marble machine as a demonstration of how economies work.

The marble rolls in fast and spins around against the guard rail. To ensure you get a smooth rolling track you ll have to straighten the wire before you start making especially if you ve acquired old bits from skips other sources to do this first strip a length of wire 50 100cm next affix one end to something fairly solid like a vice or a piece of wood you can hold attach the other end to your battery drill. There are plenty of kits out there that let you build a tabletop marble run but daniel de bruin shows you how you can build your own marble track using a spool of picture hanging wire some solder and a few household tools. The track gets narrower as it gets closer to the center.