Fischertechnik

This is a combination of some of the transport mechanisms of the standard models.

My fischertechnik collection, which has been wandering more or less aimlessly around the apartment for the past few years, should get a permanent place when the upcoming reorganisation work is done. I spent a relatively long time looking for a suitable piece of furniture for it and unfortunately didn’t find anything; so I had to tinker again on holidays and holidays. Given: a place to store all the stuff. Also given: fischertechnik, mostly packed in Allit sorting boxes (available from time to time at discounters). There is a little more loose stuff to store that is not in the picture. ...

Assembling this model is fairly easy, but getting it to work took some time. Tuning the spring mounting as suggested by the instructions didn’t work for me - I had to actually lower the left-hand part of the tracks by 15 mm for the marbles to be able to reach the top of the ramp.

I made two mistakes while building this model: I misplaced a few parts (that was fixed rather easily) and I misjuged the overall height of the model when setting up the camera. Hence, in the timelapse, unfortunately you can’t see the top of the model being built.

When building the second “standard” model contained in the Dynamic XL kit, I made a slight mistake with the wheel at first which resulted in steel marbles flying all over the place. Obviously I didn’t film that…