Comparison between straight and curve rails
As human being appreciate round things in the world, at the first look, curve rails look much nicer than straight rails.
But in the Quadrilla marble run system, the straight rails have much more possibilities to build up different and more flexible constructions, as they have more holes than the curve rails.
Here we would like to explain the basic different possibilities between the curve and straight rails.
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Short curve rail with two holes |
Short straight rail with four holes
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Simple examples to show the difference:
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The marble coming through the yellow block can follow the complete curve rail and goes down through the blue block.
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The marble coming through the yellow block can follow the complete straight rail and goes down through the blue block, but still are available 2 more holes. Also the length of the rail can be used in different ways.
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In this example the yellow block moved to the right hand end of the rail, but still one hole is free.
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In this example the yellow block moved to the righthand end of the rail. And also the blue block moved to the left hand side end hole. In this way,
the complete length of the rail is used.
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Using the two holes of the rail to build a stair.
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The marble coming from the green and also the yellow block, both go into the same hole and came out at the blue block. Still one hole behind the yellow block not used on the rail.
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Here all the four holes of the rail are used.
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Also all 4 holes used, but in another way:
The marbles toggled by the red block goes into the blue block from behind or into the yellow block.
The marble coming from the blue block at the top can go out over the turquoise block.
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Using short curve rails with two holes, it only offers marble go down from left to right and right to left.
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Using short straight rails with four holes, which offers switch blocks on the rails to create more ways to go. It also offers the possibility to go down block by block depending from the seesaw in the red blocks.
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Long curve rail with three holes |
Long straight rail with five holes |
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The marble coming through the yellow block can follow the complete curve rail and goes down through the blue block. The middle hole is closed in this example, so the marble will pass over it.
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The marble coming through the yellow block can follow the complete straight rail and goes down through the blue block, but still are available 2 more holes. The middle hole is closed in this example, so the marble will pass over it. Also the length of the rail can be used in different ways.
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In this example the yellow block moved to the right hand end of the rail, but still one hole is free.
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In this example the yellow block moved to the righthand end of the rail and also the blue block moved to the left hand side end hole. In this way,
the complete length of the rail is used.
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In this example, the middle hole is used bythe switch block. To each end of the rail is put another block. Marble coming through the switch block, blue block and green block goes to thetwo holes on the rail.
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Also all 5 holes used, but in another way:
The marbles coming through the green block goes into the blue block from behind and come out through the turquoise block,The marbles coming from the yellow block left hand side goes out through the green block. The marble coming from the blue block at the top goes out through the green block left hand side.
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Also all 5 holes used, but in another way:
The marbles toggled by the red block goes into the blue block from behind or into the green block right hand side. The marble coming from the blue block at the top can go out over the green block left side.
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This example shows: all the holes of the straight rails have been used to create a lot of different ways for marbles going down the building.
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In the Quadrilla marble run system, the red seesaw only can be used on the straight rails with five holes.
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The green seesaw only can be used on the long straight rails with four holes.
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