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The following pages illustrate the
progress of work by Sinnwerkstatt . Web design and © by Fa.
Sinnwerkstatt, Blumenweg 14, CH-8712 Stäfa, Switzerland,
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Clients of the Rolling Ball Structure are Beck Interiors and Haleysharpe.
Now available! The video
about the mounting
of the Rolling Ball Sculpture in Amman/Jordan
- Run Time: 36 min
- 8 chapters (see picture to the right)
- Menu Language: English
- Price 13 EUR plus mailing expenses
- Shipping after prepayment
Hi Speed Video
(43 Mb)
Workers watching during lunch break
Builder's dust makes it possible:
the balls stay still!
storing
loading
shipping
A further test for the RBS: After the heavy snowfalls in Switzerland (half a meter in one night) I took these stunning pictures!
The attachments for the ball lift are snow covered and frosted
Right:
Behind the freed motor plinth the snow piles up
High noon on Saturday! First big test with 25 balls simultaneously running
Bird's eye view on the lift
First test with a kindergarten from nearby
7 cardan joints, 3 pairs of bevel gears, 40 bearings and 12 pulleys assembled. The pictures show the drives for the screw conveyor and the big wheel and one of the 3 interactive blocks.
All tracks, connections and switches are finished. The pictures show a part of the lift drive mechanism. The red pulleys are made by Stefan Grünenfelder.
Snow on the tracks: winter ambience for Jordan
The Stairway (concept by Mark Bischof / realisation by Hanns-Martin Wagner) is the last missing link between the Big Wheel and the rest of the track system.
A bottom-up picture of the spiral ball runFirst children playing (still without any mechanical devices)
...illuminated by nightMark Bischof's bending performance
loop-the-loop 
Mark Bischof and Hanns-Martin Wagner enjoy the sun! Lowest temperature - 9° Celsius; welding temperature + 9000° Celsius!
The conveyor wheel on top of the sculpture
50
balls in a box...
Two of the modules got finished
Finally all eleven combs are mounted (almost 7 meter of height). Would be nice to have a factory floor with a ceiling height of 10 meters and some overhead trolley, wouldn't it? On the other hand the view over the Lake Zurich is just gorgeous!
Still growing...
The first three combs are mounted
22 frames for the comb structure welded together
Delivery of nearly 700 kg steel. The picture shows the 6 mm wire for the tracks
One of the first designs of the Rolling Ball Structure
