Building The Marble Pump

In order to guide the pieces and the marbles most of the movement and working is hidden from view.

Building the marble pump.

Also see ron walters demonstrating his marble pump. It is also less likely to jam then a previous model i built update added a picture of the pump installed in the dragon marble reservoir. How the marble pump works the marble pump is the heart of the lego marble machine as well as the wooden marble machine 1. When i first built this marble pump i milled it out of a solid block of maple using my slot mortiser.

How to build the marble pump this is a free 24 minute video to help you build the marble pump part of my modular marble machine plans. The reason i like this pump design is because it doesn t let the marbles clack together when there are no marbles in the feeder. But i wanted to make a set of plans available for this marble block set so i needed to find a way to build it using more commonly available machines. Http woodgears ca marbles plans building the marble pump which is at the heart of the modular marble machine.