Knex Rod sorting machine

This is a rod sorting machine me and Black Panther Knex made. If you subscribe to one of us then make sure to subscribe to the other! Feel free to ask if you have any questions! :) Remember: This is part 1 of 2. Part to is the connector Sorter! Click here for instructions!

Step 1 Part count

Time to gather all pieces!

Rods
Yellow rods  - 35
Blue rods - 136
Green rods - 100
Total Rods: 271

Connectores
White conns - 32
Green conns - 12
Red conns - 10
Dark grey - 94
Blue conns - 20
Purple conns - 84
Yellow conns - 37
Total Connectores: 289

Other
Tan lock - 2

Grand Total:562

Comments

[thesupergoalie]

didn't have enough purple so replaced with blue
it Worked!!!!!!!!!!


SOMEBODY CREATED SOMETHING USEFUL
Not a frigging gun for once

[Sorunome]

Haha, thanks! :) I don't like kenx guns either :)

[Jeroen1022NL]

ALERT THE MASSES!

SOMEBODY CREATED SOMETHING ACTUALLY USEFUL WITH KNEX

[Sorunome]

hehe, thanks! :)

[Ojsmudge]

i wonder if its possible to make a cardboard one which sorts rods and connectors which you can just pour in instead of having to line up all the rods and connectors

[Sorunome]

I might trz that some time, but onlz pure out of knex, I alreaedy got some ideas how to seperate rods and connectores, just hope they`ll work. :D

[bwall007]

Can I have. A patch. I made an @mazimg magic wand check it out

[Sorunome]

no patch-bagging. :P

[Ojsmudge]

cool hope you do if you do manage it i may try and make a cardboard version or other materials other than knex

[masked101]

Wow man this is pretty cool!!

[Sorunome]

thanks!

[zmxninja]

Wunderbar !!!

[Sorunome]

Danke!

[iamboredalot]

I had an idea for it you get the knex tube, yellow seethrough one, and connect to the end somehow, so u can take a fistful of them and puth them through the hole. Ive tested it a couple of times and its working pretty well :)

[iamboredalot]

no imight of just described it weird XD

[Sorunome]

maybe you could try to explain it different?

[Sorunome]

was this on the wrong ible? xD

[PimS1997]

i like this soooo much thanx for this, i was looking for this a while ago!

[Sorunome]

thanks!

[iamboredalot]

this is great

[Sorunome]

thanks!

[How2MakeThat]

Nice job.

[Sorunome]

thanks!

[skiedra]

That is a great idea for all that knexy mess after builds.

Any ideas for sorting other parts?

[Sorunome]

did you already check out part 2?
http://www.instructables.com/id/Knex-connector-sorter-machine/

[deathsake1]

this is nice

[Sorunome]

Thanks!

[famousguy]

That is cool.

[Sorunome]

Thanks!

[Jayefuu]

It's very clever, but needs a way for it to load them automatically surely.... At the moment you're loading them one by one, in which case you may as well jsut put them in the right box.

Some kind of hopper that aligns them then a slot only one can pass through at a time perhaps?

[Sorunome]

Thanks! And I think that a hopper should work, I'm planning to try to make it even better (also combined it with the connector sorter) after I took down Catastropha.

[monsterlego]

very cleaver!

[Sorunome]

thanks!

[knex1111111111]

Wow. By the time i finished this,i had no more rods left to sort.

[NE patsrock]

hahaha

[Sorunome]

LOL :D

[TheKnexDude]

so the knex sorts itself?

[Sorunome]

Yes. Well, this just sorts the rods, klick the link for the connector sorter for one that sorts out the connectors. :)

[geodez]

It works! Now all we need is a big funnel on the front to make it more efficient.

[Sorunome]

hehe, yeah! :)