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Rolling ball sculpture - #56 detail of spiral

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Uploaded by on Jul 6, 2007

This video is a close up shot of the spiral on the left side of #56. Right after the marbles leave the "marble meter" arm, they roll through this spiral, and the track below it.
http://mgaulden.blogspot.com/
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http://www.rollingballsculpture.com

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  • dont they use these in gumball machines?

  • @TamoanBoy Something like this, yes. But not nearly as nice and smooth. In the future I will be building Coin-op machines, no gumballs though. Too messy, and the gumballs are not very round - so the tracks have to be overly simplified.

  • I wonder if it would be possible to curve the end piece up to the top again so that it uses the spiral as momentum and just keeps going. I mean, you'd obviously have to take into account the forces of friction, gravity, and wind resistance, but I think it'd be possible to keep it going for quite some time.... It'd be a cool experiment to try.

  • The marble just loses too much energy on it's way down, especially on something that's 3ft tall. BUT...I have seen where someone used the energy of the marble when it reaches the botton of the run to release another marble at the top. With a long row of marbles queued up you could keep it going for 30 minutes or more... : )

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  • i really want to make these, but im only 13, and i dont have the time or money to make one :(

  • IM with you matthew

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  • Anyone else notice it skips 0:11?

  • @motleymdg Lol just put a marble in there and make it drop the same kind of gumball when its at the end of its run :P

  • @matthew11174 so am i

  • Do you have anything for under 300 $ ? i am looking into these beautiful desings....

  • imagine if this was a roller coaster

  • NICEEEE!!!! please check out my rube goldbergs and sub

  • It's an ancient Collider

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