The Incredible Mouthwash Machine
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- I am proud to finally present this massive project to the world. I really pushed myself beyond my limits in order to produce this chaotic machine. With a counted total of 265 steps and eight tables, this machine may be the largest machine designed by a single builder in the community.
This machine took five months to design, build, test and clean. When I say five months, I don't mean I was caught up with other things and only worked on this for a few hours a month. When I say five months, I mean I put as much work into the machine as possible while dealing with difficult classes, a time consuming marching band and other activities. Overall, I'd say I spent at least 100 hours on this project total, just to produce for seven minutes of footage.
This is easily the largest machine that I have ever built, and also the last machine that I will build of this size for a while. As you may have noticed, 2017 was a quiet year for my channel. That is not because I have lost interest in building, but because I spent 1/3 a year making the Toothpaste Machine, a 1/3 a year making Spicing it Up #2, and the final third making this with a few small projects here and there. While these larger projects are more impressive, they take a very long time to build and create, and it keeps me from uploading as much as I would like to. Another problem is that with a machine built of this size is the limitation on materials. When I built this machine, I used up almost all of my materials and had to be very conservative with what I built in order to fill all of the tables. I actually purchased $60 of Knex on eBay for this project, and still ran out of Knex to the point where I actually had to ask my friends if I could borrow any spare Knex that they had lying around. Another material that I used a lot of was tape. Last year when I built the Toothpaste Machine, I remember being like "Woah! I used five whole rolls of tape to make this!"
In this machine, I used twelve. And I used an entire package of tape just fixing things to prevent fails. That's a LOT of tape, seeing how the average project only takes one or two.
On top of this, the massive machine failed 460 times and took two months to get it to work once. That said, I will be reverting to screenlinks and 1-2 table machines for a while, which will allow me to provide more impressive tricks in the future. This is actually good news, because now that I will be building smaller projects, I can promise you that there will be much more uploads in the future that will be just as, if not more, impressive than this one.
Like the music? I decided to try something new in terms of music in honor of this major machine by using music that I composed myself!
Music Used:
Electro Party by Sirgabealot G: • Electro Party | Music ...
Skyfall by FyMex: • FyMex - Skyfall
Extras:
Bonus Footage: • Bonus Footage: The Inc...
Fail Compilation: • Fail Compilation: Mout...
Huge thank you to cwdreactions for his contributions made to this project! He filmed the intro clip with the mouthwash and also edited the video. I highly recommend that anyone who enjoys in my videos should his channel out as well.
cwdreactions: / @cwdreactions . I would also like to thank everyone that loaned me materials along the way.
There are twenty-eight green 28's hidden throughout the machine in honor of this being the 28th machine in my chain reaction series which extends over five years. If you are up for the challenge, try to find them all. Almost every trick has at least one 28 hidden near it.
Thank for you watching! I hope that you enjoyed this video!
I am interested in commissioned work. If you have any needs pertaining to chain reaction art, please feel free to email me at sirgabealot11@gmail.com. - Zábava
This machine is seriously amazing. It's clearly your best work, and the amount of time and effort you put into it really shows. I can imagine your excitement to finally release this to the world. I was in your place, less than one year ago. (In fact, this video was uploaded on almost the exact date that I started BLM last year.) After watching this several times, including once in slow motion, I feel like I can give a proper response to the greatness you've created. I have a few things to say about specific tricks, then a few things about the machine and your style as a whole.
*Comments About Specific Tricks:*
-The opening trick with the four white ping pong balls being pushed into place was very creative. Very good choice for a first trick, it really sets up what to expect later on.
-The mechanism that pulls the car back up the tracks at 1:09 struck me as extremely interesting for some reason. It's a technique I think I had only seen once before, only a little differently (Alex's soda machine with the Brio train on the machine wall). Very elegant way to accomplish the motion you wanted.
-I did notice the attempt to recreate the trick from DvM4, where the ball gets hit by the balance swing again after bouncing back. Don't think I didn't catch the fact that it didn't hit it twice in the full version! ;) I really liked the "Spicing It Up" rendition of the trick, though. I was not expecting the track underneath to collapse.
-The trick at 1:23 reminds me quite a bit of the trick I made in BLM where there was a track on the end of a rod that flipped over 180 degrees, but did a full flip in the process. I did my trick with gears, where you just had the track hit a rod on the way down. A bit less elegant, but I got the sense you weren't really trying to make that trick a main idea. Just felt I should point out I noticed the inspiration!
-One trick I found quite interesting, but I feel like it won't get much attention, is the shifting block on the zigzag board. It's a really neat idea, but I feel like it should have been explored more. Maybe make the block move several times, or maybe put shifting blocks on both sides. Maybe even try to make the blocks shift so that they switch sides. I realize that space was an issue in your case, but if I had that idea, I wouldn't have tried to squeeze it in there. I would have thought of something else that would fit better, and save the zigzag board trick for later. That way, I would have enough room to explore the potential of the trick more fully. That said, I am definitely inspired to try my own version of that trick and implement some of these suggestions!
-The trick with the collapsing cup is totally a trick that I would make! I love seeing creative, elegant motions like that, especially when they're done well.
-I also noticed (although this could be a coincidence) that the train trick at 2:25 was inspired by a Fail Factor trick I made. Nice to see that basic idea incorporated into something that actually works. ;)
-Another trick I would totally make is the tracks collapsing in opposite directions at 2:39. This is a really nice looking trick, possibly one that I might try to adapt myself.
-I really liked the lift at 2:56. It was really unexpected, which I loved. A trick doesn't necessarily have to be overly complicated to stand out. Sometimes an unexpected motion can have the same effect.
-Another trick that reminded me of other tricks I've seen in the past was the one at 3:22. To me, it looked like a combination between the bead chain trick that Steve and I made at Lily's studio in the Charity Livestream machine, and the slinky trick I made for the beginning of the Trickshot Machine.
*Comments About the Machine/Your Style:*
-One thing I noticed that I had never noticed before in your machines, was the fact that sometimes, the tricks were nicely interconnected, and flowed together well. My style pretty much revolves around this principle, and I saw you pull it off in a few places in this machine. The one area it stands out the most to me is the end of the table with the car that slides down and up the ramp (1:09). You've got two tricks that flow really well into each other (the track for the yellow ball that gets pushed up and down the track leads perfectly into the 90 degree rotating track that carries that same ball), and you've got two tricks that are interconnected (the purple ball rolls down one of the same tracks that the car rolled down). This is the kind of thing I love seeing the most in machines. It's one thing to have cool tricks, but if they're mostly separated by just domino & string connections, the machine loses a lot of charm in my opinion. But when each of the tricks is pieced together in a way where each motion flows nicely into the next, or where some motions overlap, the machine instantly more interesting and impressive.
-This machine definitely had it's fair share of foreign object tricks, and they were very good. I liked that you didn't fall into the trap of "justputatrackonit-ism," which is the idea that even if you just tape a track to a foreign object, it counts as a foreign object trick. In my opinion, foreign objects should always take advantage of a unique property or movement of the foreign object. All your foreign objects definitely did that, from the magnetic roller, to the giant slinky, to the Newton's Cradle, to the fiber optic feather thing (and the cup on top), to the book, to the fidget spinner. All of them were used in ways unique to that object; if they were replaced with anything else, the trick would not have been possible.
-One thing I admire about your style is your use of big tricks to break up the pacing of the machine. Of course, the major highlight in this machine was the giant slinky, but the light-up ball that bounced, and the shoebox trick were other examples of larger-than average tricks that were done quite well.
-Slightly related to my point about my style revolving around the principle of tricks being connected elegantly and flowing well into each other, is the fact that I don't really have what you might consider "connections" in my machines. I've spoken about this before, but that's largely due to the fact that I try to turn my connections into small, simpler tricks themselves. When I say that my tricks tend to flow into each other nicely, it's a bit misleading because usually my main ideas are connected by connections, just like any other builder. The difference is that I place a slightly higher focus on making my connections interesting, so they almost look like another trick, instead of just a connection. I saw some interesting connections in this machine, but I would have liked to see more. The bead chain trick at 3:22 sticks out to me as a good example of what I like to see. That could have easily just been a "ball rolls down track" connection, but you added a simple, but interesting, trick to it that turned the connection into another trick. As a general rule of thumb, I don't like to ever have a sequence in my machine where a ball is released at the top of the track, and it hits a domino at the bottom (unless I absolutely have to, for timing reasons usually). I'm not saying you absolutely have to follow this advice, I just figured I'd share my perspective since you might find it interesting.
-I also noticed for the first time how you paid special attention to the reset process, and tried to make it as easy as possible. I liked how you put barriers at the end of a lot of the tracks to prevent the balls from rolling off the edge. I also liked how some of the strings would catch on the supports so that they wouldn't fall completely to the floor. Simple things like this show a lot of care went into building this, and it shows that you're definitely progressing as a machine builder.
Overall, of course I'm very impressed by this machine. You did an absolutely fantastic job on this, and it was about time the community received another flagship machine by a top builder. This should be very difficult competition in the 2018 Awards, that's for sure. Although I'm not letting you win that easily, I've got some stuff planned! ;)
jackofallspades98 I'm glad that you liked the machine! A few things to say in response to your comment:
-For connections, I actually tried to do a little more than the basic "ball on a track", which is why the rolling dice block and the three balls that hit each other exist in this machine. I will admit that I did use a lot of basic connections regardless though. This is something I'll hopefully change in the future
-Okay, so if you look real close at the ball kicker trick on the second table, you'll actually notice that I put a Jack of Spades card by it as an Easter Egg type thing XD That trick and the one behind it with the flipping track were directly inspired from DvMs 4 and the Bet Losing machine. The second I saw that ball kicker trick in DvMs 4, I knew that I had to try that out. So I took the last of my Knex and put it toward that trick. The ball kicker trick hit the ball twice only about 10% of the time, which was unfortunate but it looked cool regardless.
-I love the giant slinky XD It's kind of funny because after I took the machine down and took the Slinky off of the pole, it has actually been hanging like that for so long, it doesn't compress now unless I put a weight on it. I'll have to send you a pic.
-What did you think of the Newton's Cradle trick?
-I LOVE the fiber trick. I set out to build a better trick with the fiber thing than I did last year (although last year's was fairly impressive), and I remember trying to come up with something and playing with the fibers when I just took up a cup randomly lying on the table and put it on top of the fibers and when I saw how perfectly that worked, I actually started cheering XD
It's probably my favorite trick in the machine.
jackofallspades98 I'll finish writing the rest later. I need to work on 11BC2 clips!
You have Quite a lot to say. Man, is there some sort off rube goldberg machine contest going on?
jackofallspades98 this comment is almost as long as this vid lol
This machine is incredible! There were some tricks that I have never seen before!
That machine is IMPOSSIBLE!
Great work
OMG this machine is INSANE!!! You are a genius! This machine deserves to go viral, keep up the amazing work ;-)
Great job! That was huge!
OMG NO WAY! IF I COULD LIKE IT 1,000,000 TIMES I WOULD!
I don't have the words to describe how well done this machine is.
Length in a machine is one thing. Length with complexity is another. You’ve achieved both flawlessly. Epic job dude!
You deserve so manny more subscribers
1:03 on the hot wheels track
2:40 on the flipping tracks base
2:50 on the pillar for the green marble track
3:41 on the corner of the paper
3:50 the paper saying machine 28
4:06 on the yellow domino
4:09 on the kind of spades
4:10 on the card on the rotating track
4:15 on the blue die
4:21 on the falling track
4:25 on the video game case
4:28 on the card on the track (kinda cut off)
4:48 on the k'nex spinner
4:58 above the jenga block
5:00 on the kinetic toy base
5:00 on the bottom of the blue cup
5:07 at the corner of the table
5:14 on the 9 of clubs
5:22 on the falling k'nex contraption
5:26 on the moving track
5:30 on the dc
5:41 on the white car
5:54 on the dc
5:59 on the corner of the shoebox
6:09 on the book
6:09 on the kinetic toy
6:15 in the middle of the table
6:28 on the video game case
Oh my gosh I can't believe you actually did it, lol. Hats off to you XD
Lol it was kinda annoying because I was looking in the screenlink version so the camera was still, but there were some that weren't visible in it (also i missed a few)
Wow this is so satisfying if i only knew how to make one i just have to say amazing
Jackofallspades is going to write a book about this machine
One novel, coming right up!
Taikamuna BEEP BOOP, NOVEL COMPLETE
Did you seriously spend almost two hours writing a CZcams comment? 😅
Haha no...
Okay, maybe.
jackofallspades98 that’s 2 hours well spent.
Dude! You have blown me away once again! I was not expecting any of those tricks! I have no idea how you were even able to think of any of the ideas in this machine! Someone needs to share this video to make it go viral!
teddytron2000 Lol, later tonight I'm going to find every website that I can possibly share it on and hopefully get something going. Maybe we can do it together XD
It just keeps on going😂
Btw love your chanel
i like how each and every part of this was so well thought out, you actuaaly inspired me to build my own youtube contraption channel
this is very very very very cool
DUDE! This is one of the best machines i've seen!
that first part reminded me of a 90's commercial
When you know how to build an amazing machine but don't know how to put mouthwash in a cup...
What was the best trick?
EVERYTHING!
Everything was AMAZING! Great job on this masterpiece!
I think I found 26 of the hidden 28's.
If the person at the beginning comes to take the mouthwash at the end of the machine but drops the cup...
Andrew Stabell Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the machine!
U r great guys. So much fun watching all that u do. Dont stop keeping up the good work. U still get 20 out of 10.
Love your style. Complicated, but still understandable. Your machines just look nice too, like the Slinky transition and that trick with the Domino Rally marble zigzag with the falling track. The Newton's cradle was my favourite trick, though. Also really liked the use of the Q-ba maze track being used as a ball thrower, it's quite simple, but makes for such a nice effect that's very visually appealing! Really impressive length of machine and nice work with most fails ever in the community. The aspects of this machine will definitely inspire a bit of my own machines in the future. cool
When Sirgabealot G fails to pour milk in a glass: I will make a long machine!
Mal ehrlich, Dominosteine umfallen zu sehen ist doch langweilig. Das hier hingegen… wow :O
Pure Satisfaction.
Glad to see all your hard work finally paid off! Seriously, I don't know how you put up with this project. Some people go through hours, sometimes days, maybe even a week to get a full take. FILMING THIS TOOK 2 MONTHS. You somehow managed to push through weeks upon weeks of machine self-destruction and fails (while still having to deal with school and other time-draining activities in the process) in order to get this masterpiece to work, and for that I'm blown away. Favourite tricks for me are probably the fibre cup thing, the marble track/ball launcher, and the ball that knocks the rally dominoes down the stairs (I like explosive tricks :P)
TheInvention11 flim??? What are you 80?
lol the ad starts out as: "Ever have trouble putting mouthwash in a cup, well to make life easier, we introduce the mouthwash machine" and it just ends with "Some assembly required" XD
YES!
Seriously though, this is incredible!
CubixRubeGoldberg Creations Lol. Testing a machine 460 times makes you lose your mind.
So when it worked, I lost my mind one last time XD
Alright well I've definitely got a lot to say about this machine, aside from the usual - "this was awesome" and "this thing is huge!"
I think JOAS98 mentioned this, but it's very clear you're paying more attention to detail and resettability, which is very good. I know I'm not one to talk, but your machines are looking a lot more professional (even more so than mine, actually). Okay, now on to the tricks.
1:01 I like the swinging arm idea a lot, and it was a really cool idea to use all the balls to do something and then use them to create a track. Interesting method of moving the yellow ball across the top. Also nifty reuse of the initial path of all those balls.
1:07 Neat idea to have the rolling lever pull its own counterweight off the table! I like that - no extraneous steps - everything that happens to it, it does itself. Then it moves back and its backward motion raises its own lever! Again, no extraneous steps! And again, a nifty reuse of the track the rolling lever uses. You just know I have a soft spot for multi-uses ;)
1:20 I didn't see that track drop coming! Interesting take on the swinging pendulum idea
1:27 wooooooooo SLINKAYYY
1:35 the entire Newton's cradle sequence was wonderfully multi-use. I absolutely loved it :D
1:53 the cup and that fiber thing is one of my favorite foreign object ideas. Such a cool way to release a cup!
2:12 has to be one of the most SATISFYING multi-use objects-fall-into-place machine ideas I've seen in a while. Wonderfully smooth and soooooooo good.
2:20 this K'nex structure has a really neat motion that I did NOT see coming (for whatever reason). Loving the unpredictability :D
2:22 you use a lot of these perpetual motion machines (I think that's what they're called) in this machine in new and creative ways and this is one of my favorite such uses.
2:28 the way the train plops into place is so satisfying!
2:39 the diverging K'nex tracks are a really neat idea - yet another oddly satisfying trick
2:45 another creative use of a perpetual motion machine! You're very creative, especially when it comes to using foreign objects in new ways or moving them around unexpectedly
2:52 I know it's just a small thing but I love the way this direction changer swings a bob around in a circle. So neat!
2:55 subtle multi use in placing the pink ball on the marble cascade. I thought it was almost unintentional until it turned out the marble cascade was actually a BALL LIFT! Wow! I got prankd
2:59 man the purple ball goes ALL over the top of this shoebox! Loving the sinuous and complex nature of this trick. That shoebox does some mad tiltin'
There's so much cool stuff in this machine that I've almost certainly missed some things! Good thing I'm gonna be rewatching plenty of times :P
This machine was flat out amazing not only in size but in creativity and complexity. So many neat little multi-uses and creative uses that might slip by a casual viewer were embedded in there and it was awfully fun to watch it and pick them out. Nicely done! This machine is definitely worth the effort, and I commend you for your perseverance (that's a lot of fails!!).
TheRGMGuy01 Thank you! Be sure to share it! I'll probably leave a longer response once I get on my laptop later today.
VERY very nicely done!! I love how even though the machine was complicated, it was easy to follow and cleaned up which made the viewing experience that much enjoyable. I really saw a lot of unique ideas and tricks but here is my favorites.
0:58 Love how the balls straightened out pretty satisfying honestly
1:24 I LOVE good track tricks and this is an example of one, could've gone easy and just made the track fall down straight but added the flip in which really makes this cool.
1:26 slinkys are great
1:36 seen it many times and I still love it. Really wish I had one of these. Nice job on the multi-use of it too.
1:52 This might be my favorite trick of the machine. Such a unique way of transporting the cup. Looks AMAZING
2:12 Yet another great multi use trick. This one looks very clean also, hard to made it look that way.
2:21 Really nice and pretty creative also.
2:35 Trying to convince my friend to add a trick in the machine with a spinning fidget spinner not just one that stays put, might be the evidence i need.
2:41 Another great track trick
2:58 I love it when things go flying, great example
3:03 Good triple use trick
One of the best machines I have ever seen and definitely shows what you are capable of. Really hope to see more machine out of you because I freaking love them.
BWRGM This is EXACTLY what I was hoping for! I'm glad you liked it! Be sure to share it so as many people as possible can see it, lol
Wow that was a really long and really complicated machine, lots of tricks that i liked a lot. The beginning was like that montage of white people who fail at everyday tasks from the infomercials.
Sprice Machines nice comparison
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That emoji sums up my emotions. I think machines are harder than dominoes. I have high respect for you with sticking with it for 5 months. I am trying to start doing machines. Any tips?
Make sure you tape/hot glue things down. Most balls can be held on tracks with just string. Tracks don't need to be super steep for a ball to roll over them. Knex is extremely helpful if you know how to use it. Build machines while keeping camera angles and how you're going to film it in mind.
Overall, making machines is pretty complex and takes a lot of practice, but over time you'll develop strategies and ideas to make your machines great. Every trick I do requires different mechanisms and setups and structures, so the best thing to do is to just get started and see what you can do, then keep building and you'll grow from there :)
Got some of those Lyle vibes, some of those Alex B vibes, just the whole lot really.
Rip brain part 3 (although rip brain doesn’t do it justice)
TheGoldbergGuy So, did you like the machine? XD
Your hands are crazy.
I admire your ability to make a 265 step chain reaction and leave it for 5 months without destroying it in anger. Makes me want to build a machine now...but the awards...sigh.
Also those shaky hands at the beginning are probably why you're not a domino builder. ;)
StickTrickDominoDude
*ISM3*
"Oh, Gabe. I don't want you resetting the dominoes"
"Why not? *gasps* Do you not trust me to reset this?!"
"No"
Lol. I miss you guys at ISM. Hopefully I'll get to see you all again.
Perfect for Doctor Strange.
Awesome amazing favorite wow winner like you have fun cool😍🤗☺️
The beginning was amazing xD
Incredible machine Gabe! Really glad to have you at domino world!
This is definitely your best machine yet! I was thinking to my self that you haven't been posting lately.. Now I know why! I thought the first song was NCS, I guess I was wrong! It sounded really good! I also noticed that you camera shots are looking so good! This is by far your best machine! You did an awesome job! Can't wait for more!
NKS Productions Thanks man! I used some of those marble tracks you gave me! They were great! And I'm glad you liked the music! It was a lot of fun to make. I'll hopefully have the music uploaded separately soon.
Wow, I can tell you put a ton of effort into this machine and it is your best work. Loved every second of it. I truly mean it when I say you are one of my favorite builders. (Also sorry I took so long to comment.)
How can you be this clumsy and make rubegoldbergs at the same time? 0:10
Super
It's funny how in the ISpy book you wrote this book belongs to Sirgabealot G, Was that just for this machine?
Supar bhai
How long does it take you to make all of these mini obstacles I call it
Cameron C It took from mid August to mid November to build this, and from November to January to test this to make it work successfully.
Sirgabealot G Wow it does look like it does take a lot of time working on these
*spills the cup*
Good，
So 😎 I wish that I could do that
i did not read the tittle
thought i was in the wrong video
You see, I was wondering why no one commented on the music. But I suppose people enoy the actual content of the machine more than the music. Or rather, that's the more important part to comment on. Heh.
Lol, true
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461 fails!! Do you work out??
What do you play in marching band? Do you do concert band?
Double Domino I play percussion, and I am in concert band :)
Awesome! How long have you been playing for?
Double Domino I have played percussion for four years.
How many rolls of tape? xD
Oh, I read the description so ..............
TWELVE! I had thought that five was too much, but this is out of imagination.
Dominik☺
0:14 what a waste lol
Better music next time please haha, I love how you still end up getting it all over the floor lol. Well job anyways my friend!
Yeh but, it still spilt the mouth wash!! Just sayin’ like!
0:52
1:06
1:28
2:06
2:20
2:39
so, you didnt wash your mouth for 5 months?
To many things happening in a short time and your close ups are to close and your music is nerve wracking
bad lighting on the end, why use the floor under a table?
I know. Pouring the mouthwash off of a small table was the best strategy that I I could come up with on a strict material constraint and for some reason the lighting fell short when I got there on the final take. Regardless of this, did you enjoy the rest of the machine?