Helical Loader Help

[Justin Stiltner]

take a flat piece of some material, drill a hole in the end of it sized for your marking tool. drill another 1 radius distance away, and put something sharp there, and hey presto a compass...ish

You can also do this with string, but you need to tie the string to the marker very close to the bottom or leaning the pen in or out could cause your circles to not be smooth.

[Arefin Bari]

Or you can make a huge gumball machine.

If you do have questions about that robot, send a pm to Gabe and I am sure he will be get back to you with a full explanation of how it works. Good luck.

[sdcantrell56]

We just prototyped a helix system today with the center drum powered and it worked wonderfully. We used PEX tube which comes in 25 foot rolls and supported it with a wood frame. we used to separate runs, one under the ball and one on the outside of the ball to keep it in.

[MrForbes]

heh...thanks for proving the idea, we won't bother with finishing the wood prototype now, we'll just go ahead and build the final version

(and our wood one is pretty close to being put together)