Berthil

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  1. Berthil
    Thanks, I will do so :)
  2. Berthil
    Very inspiring and thank you for all the work in analyzing the design work of Akiyuku into building instructions. I've build the most complex ones of Akiyuki myself to learn and came up with my own GBC creation in the spirit of Akiyuki (I hope).
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    It's almost a closed track shooting the balls up with two escapes to prevent clogging up the shoots. I know there is a lot of variation but balls fly up at such a high speed that they all reach the end. I've let it run for an hour with an occasional ball lost because a small part is still open, I'll fix this before running it 7 days @ Lego World :)
  4. Berthil
    Maybe also good to note I put the whole launching pad in rubber (45590) to absorb too much vibration and the bottom of the launching pad is also rubber for optimum grip. The fact that the balls have a large self propelling forward spin shows this works. Of course this self propelling spin back fires at the end of the half loop (making it backwards spin) but then the ball is where it should be so no problem :)
  5. Berthil
    Thanks! My first GBC with own input, hopefully more to come. Gearing is 24 tooth (3648) to smallest (10928), then 16 tooth (94925) to smallest again. Last gears are on both sides of axle to make sure the axle is evenly loaded, that's 12 tooth (32270) to 12 tooth (6589) so no ratio there. It runs on full power on one 9V train regulator but can also run 1 click lower. Not lower as the balls don't have enough speed at that power. I'll put some detailed shots on Flickr.
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    I've converted the Akiyuki Marble Run to a stand alone GBC module by shooting up the balls on the inside of the marble run by two rotating wheels. The GBC is made 100% from Lego including 63 Hose, Rigid 3mm D. 32L / 25.6cm! The inbox still needs a small modification but otherwise it works well. Thanks for providing the building instructions of the Akiyuki Marble Run!
  7. Berthil
    Thanks Blakbird and The Rebricker. To learn from the it I've build this as my first GBC with the aim to design some GBCs myself. Calibration is a real challenge as the ones know that have build this. Most modifications I did were in the head that picks up the two balls, visible in my video. For fun I added some days from the 60133 advent calendar. Here's my video and thanks for all the info and videos I have seen here.