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Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 25th, 2018, 6:42 am
by IvanGe
I’m working on a new design and instead of using one pipe to have the ball travel in, I am using two tubes and having the ball travel in between them. Would this be allowed considering the two tubes are enclosed tubes but the ball is traveling between the tubes and not inside of them?

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 25th, 2018, 7:54 am
by builder83
Should be fine as long as the ball is never inside the tubes. Good idea! Flexible tubing?

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 25th, 2018, 10:57 am
by hippo9
As long as the tubes never completely enclose around the marble, it should be fine.

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 25th, 2018, 12:16 pm
by IvanGe
I'm bending metal tubes. I bend them with my hands, jk, I'm using tube benders to bend them into ski slopes.

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 25th, 2018, 12:41 pm
by hippo9
Where do you have access to tube benders?

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 25th, 2018, 1:33 pm
by IvanGe
I have one at my house

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 26th, 2018, 5:41 pm
by hippo9
You personally own a tube bender? Sorry but that seems a little extreme to just randomly own.

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 28th, 2018, 9:42 am
by SPP SciO
Is there an advantage of using tubes as rails, vs armature wire?

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 28th, 2018, 10:49 am
by hippo9
SPP SciO wrote:Is there an advantage of using tubes as rails, vs armature wire?
Well with wire you have to make sure the distance between the two wires stays relatively constant, while with tubing its a non issue.

Re: Enclosed Tubes

Posted: March 28th, 2018, 7:35 pm
by IvanGe
Well with tubing there's "extra friction" and with wires there is less friction. I've been using wires and tbh there not as good as the tubing but once you align the wires right then it's extremely consistent.