Making a Steel Marble Track (with basic tools): A step by step guide

If you saw Daniel’s other video of him making a miniature marble track, chances are you would like to know if you could make the same thing as well. If you do, well you are in luck! Daniel has made the ultimate step by step guide into making the tracks similar to what he does, and the best part is you only need basic tools.

Here’s the finished setup.

The setup can be operated and is powered by hand.

Tools and materials used.

• 16mm/14 gauge - galvanized steel
• Hand drill
• Soldering iron (fine point is better)
• Solder wire tin/copper/ 99/1 resin core
• Universal flux liquid

Follow Daniel’s process and the corresponding steps with this timestamped summary

Steps to Follow.

1. Preparing the Steel Wire (0:05)

• Sanding the wire
• Straightening the wire

2. Making Straight Tracks (0:28)

• Making crosspieces
• Template for soldering crosspieces
• Soldering

3. Making Curved Tracks (2:21)

• Collecting round objects as templates
• Bending manually
• Soldering crosspieces

4. Making a Spiral Lifthill (3:28)

• Making a spiral template
• Setting pivot point and straight track

What others are saying.

“I just want you to know that I have never done anything like this and cannot solder but sitting on my desk at the moment is some universal flux and solder. I'm waiting for my steel and balls to arrive.
No idea what I'll use to coil the wire round to make the u-shaped spacers and I don't have any calipers but we'll see how it goes.”

- Rylan Storm