Knex BallBuster Ball Machine Instructions
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Knex BallBuster Ball Machine Instructions
This is my final ball machine for the rest of the year since I have to go back to college. I wanted to end my ball machine spree with something huge and this is what came out, a 6' 10" high tower with five paths and a new element made by me. That element is on path one. This project took a lot of my knex to the point where I ran out of green rids!, I had to start using the black ones. Anyway, I hope you enjoy building this beast. This ball machine has the most pieces out of all of my ible's, 8,600!
Piece Count
RODS:
grey: 17
red:279
yellow: 765
blue: 1416
white: 577
green: 1320
CONNECTORS:
white: 203
blue 3d: 286
purple 3d: 723
yellow: 692
green: 68
red: 495
orange:263
light-grey: 13
dark-grey:334
SPECIAL:
gold track connector: 326
gold track rod(length of red rod): 14
silver spacer: 227
blue spacer: 179
tan-clip: 28
blue-clip: 17
Y-clip: 87
ball-socket connector: 2
black rod: 5
tan rod: 2
purple flexi rod: 26
orange flexi rod: 14
chain links: 170
track spice: 9
red gear: 15
yellow gear:1
Large yellow gear: 1
blue gear: 5
large tire: 1
medium tire: 2
medium tire no tread: 5
medium tire tread: 2
small tire: 7
large new tire: 3
motor: 1
Balls: 5-10
GRAND TOTAL: 8600
grey: 17
red:279
yellow: 765
blue: 1416
white: 577
green: 1320
CONNECTORS:
white: 203
blue 3d: 286
purple 3d: 723
yellow: 692
green: 68
red: 495
orange:263
light-grey: 13
dark-grey:334
SPECIAL:
gold track connector: 326
gold track rod(length of red rod): 14
silver spacer: 227
blue spacer: 179
tan-clip: 28
blue-clip: 17
Y-clip: 87
ball-socket connector: 2
black rod: 5
tan rod: 2
purple flexi rod: 26
orange flexi rod: 14
chain links: 170
track spice: 9
red gear: 15
yellow gear:1
Large yellow gear: 1
blue gear: 5
large tire: 1
medium tire: 2
medium tire no tread: 5
medium tire tread: 2
small tire: 7
large new tire: 3
motor: 1
Balls: 5-10
GRAND TOTAL: 8600
The Base
Where all ball machines start from.
White Floor, Return Track, Lift Wheel and Motor
Why do I like wheel lifts? I have no idea!
Main Support and Lift
The tallest section on the machine.
Other Supports
They're important aren't they?
Path Selectors
There are four of them to make five paths.
Path 1
This path contains my new hopper car element. This also uses Sandroknexmaster's leap-frog element. This step also has exactly 100 pictures!
Path 2
I like to call this path " the fast track to success" since it is a roller coaster path.
Path 3
A very erratic path.
Path 4
A nice slow path around the front support tower followed by thirteen ball alternators.
Path 5
This path was hard to design in terms of space. I had to make it hop over a section of path 4 and weave around path three and two.
Modifications
These are some mods I made while I was recording the machine.