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How can I make a good Ball tower when I'm using grey and yellow rods for the structure?
Im designing a ball tower to post on instructables. The only problem is that I'm having trouble making it look nice using a grey and yellow rod sized support tower.Anybody have tips?
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Best Answer 11 years ago
Ah, I keep forgetting I wanted to build something on that kind of frame.
Putting that aside, you can actually have a potential advantage with yellow rods, particularly if you're using several BBF elements. A lot of those things are built on a white/yellow/gray rod scale, so you can easily connect them to the frame.
Hope I made my directions clear enough; it's hard when you don't have a picture to show.
11 years ago
You mean vertical or horizontally placed red rods for supports?
Answer 11 years ago
Yes and the width would be gray/red rods. One support would be a green x green x gray, or red x red x yellow, or any of those combinations. I did the math and there is a total of 4096 combinations if you only use green/red rods and gray/yellow rods. lol
11 years ago
Thanks!
Answer 11 years ago
Try using the reply button. It helps a lot. Best Answer?
11 years ago
I'm making one right now and I used a green/red rod box with a gray/yellow rod for the width. To strengthen the sides, I put a gray rod in the middle of the green/red rod box. When making ball tower, try to keep it clean and make sure you build your features on the tower and then connect them together with paths. Here is a great instructable for ball machine elements and here is an instructable on how to make a ball machine in general.