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Lift & ZigZag II – Input Rebuild Of My GBC Module

Wednesday, 18th September 2019 By Caz

Despite a redesign of the input conveyor last December for my Lift & ZigZag Great Ball Contraption module, it was still proving to be not reliable enough, but I had been putting off doing anything about it. Wih several shows looming where I needed to take GBC to display, a few weeks ago I gave it some more thought and decided to completely rebuild the input side. I had found a GBC Workshop module design online (WM01 by Matt Norman).

Filed Under: Great Ball Contraption, Technic Tagged With: gbc, lift and zigzag, lift and zigzag ii, matt norman, rebuild, WM01

Updates To My 3 LEGO GBC Modules & A New One!

Saturday, 15th December 2018 By Caz

Since the last show I displayed at back in early November, I have made a few changes to my Great Ball Contraption modules to improve their reliability. In this video I show you the modifications I have made to my existing three modules, and showcase a new one.

Filed Under: Great Ball Contraption Tagged With: big bird ii, buckets of fun, gbc, lift and zigzag, rainbow tipper

Exhibition: LMEE 2018

Sunday, 21st January 2018 By Caz

The London AFOLs were sharing a stand at the London Model Engineering Exhibition with Brickish at Ally Pally over the weekend. Several of our members had built GBC modules and they were all put together to make a ridiculously pointless ball-carrying contraption, including two of mine. The punters loved it! Here’s a video of the circuit:

I was helping to run the machine all day, and heard many complimentary comments. The two best ones were:

This is the best LEGO model I’ve ever seen!

and

This is the best model in the whole show!

High praise indeed… Anyway, here are my two contributions merrily shifting balls.

LMEE '18 - My GBC Modules
LMEE ’18 – My GBC Modules

And the public clearly loved it – there were loads of questions from young and old alike.

LMEE '18 - Punters Enjoy Our GBC
LMEE ’18 – Punters Enjoy Our GBC

I was allowed out for a little while to look at the rest of the LEGO on display, here is a selection of photos of other builds:

LMEE '18 Fairy Bricks Bus
LMEE ’18 Fairy Bricks Bus
LMEE '18 Lunar Lander
LMEE ’18 Lunar Lander
LMEE' 18 Tanks And Trains
LMEE’ 18 Tanks And Trains
LMEE '18 Two Spaceships By Alec Hole
LMEE ’18 Two Spaceships By Alec Hole
LMEE '18 NCS Surface Rover By Alec Hole
LMEE ’18 NCS Surface Rover By Alec Hole
LMEE '18 Brickish Seaside Display
LMEE ’18 Brickish Seaside Display
LMEE '18 Brickish Seaside & Rocket
LMEE ’18 Brickish Seaside & Rocket
LMEE '18 Brickton On Sea
LMEE ’18 Brickton On Sea

So all in all my first experience at exhibiting was a good one, great fun and excellent company. When’s the next one?

Filed Under: Exhibitions, Great Ball Contraption Tagged With: alec hole, big bird, brickish, brickton on sea, fairy bricks, gbc, goods train, lego trains, lift and zigzag, lmee, london afols, lunar landar, model engineering, ncs, pinball, rocket, spaceships, tank

GBC: Lift & ZigZag

Saturday, 6th January 2018 By Caz

The GBC test day in Caterham went well, and while the Big Bird was being tested, Alistair and I managed to put together another module with the Technic bits I had taken with us. The conveyor is a straight lift from the Bucket Wheel Excavator, with some pins stuck in at regular intervals. The ZigZag ramps were again built from BWE bits, the siding plates from another conveyor forming the bottom surface. I’m quite pleased how these turned out too.

GBC Lift & ZigZag
GBC Lift & ZigZag

When I got home I made a little video of my two modules running together:

Filed Under: Great Ball Contraption, MOCs, Technic, Video Tagged With: caterham, gbc, lift and zigzag, youtube

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