KneXtreme's Official Guide to Ball Machine Elements

Greetings all you fellow knexers.
This is my official guide to all my ball machine elements. From now on (when I make a new ball machine or a new element) they will be posted here. Keep checking back now and then for new elements. If you have not seen any of my ball machines here they are. Enjoy.

Tire Stairs

This is a variation of one of Thilbault Art's element in his ball machine Route 66

Custom Paving

Side Winder

This is a variation of one of Yardking42's elements in his ball machine Arcane

Chain Path

Vertical Panel Zig-Zag

Ball Arms

Gear Hills

Ferris Wheels

Here is the piece count for the big ferris wheel.

Red rod: 1
Gray rods: 64
Yellow rods: 64
White rods: 128
Yellow connectors: 64
Red connectors: 64
Orange connectors: 64
Green connectors: 2
Silver spacers: 4

Smooth Paving

The paving is from the Down Hill Thrill or the Real Bridge Building sets. I used this paving in my ball machine Boron and my failed ball machine.

Spinning Circles

There are two different circles. The one on the left is the kicking circle, which kicks the ball as it exits. The other one is the dropping circle, which lets the ball just fall through.

Vertical Clickers

Panel Stairs

Panel Drop

Spiral Stairs

Flat Clickers

The clickers are actually the clamps from the knex electronic arcade set.

The Flippin' Wheel

Thanks to poncho531 for the name.

Bendy Paving

Mini Roller Coaster Track

Finally! Something to use all that mini roller coaster track for, that is if you have a lot Y-clips. Turns are possible but are very hard to make.

Sharp Corner

This is not a new element but it is a nice way to make a sharp corner.

Half Loop

Panel Paving

Motorcycle Elements

This is for all you ball machine builders who don't know what to do with all those motorcycle parts.

Simple Stairs

Orange Paving

The ball rolls in between the orange bumps.

Dual Paving

There are two ways to build this. Version one is using the red tubing as guard rails and version two is using the bendy rods as guard rails. Both versions work well but version one is a little more smooth.