Quercetti Skyrail 6635 User manual

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Necesita 2 “AA” baterìas (non adjuntadas)
Nécessite 2 piles “AA” (non incluses)
Richiede 2 pile “AA” (non incluse)
Er braucht 2 Batterien “AA” (nicht enthalten)

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Once you have finished building the track, adjust carefully the length of the suspension cables
(by sliding up and down the red cursor). To check that all the stretches of track have the correct
inclination, drop a few marbles by hand.
ENG
Una vez acabado el montaje de las pistas, regula con cuidado la longitud de los cables de
suspensión, deslizando el tensor rojo. Para comprobar que todos los tramos de la pista tienen
la inclinación correcta, haz rodar algunas canicas manualmente.
ESP
Lorsque tu as fini de monter la piste, régule avec attention la longueur des câbles en faisant glis-
ser le curseur rouge. Pour vérifier si les divers segments de la piste ont une inclinaison correc-
te, fais rouler quelques billes manuellement.
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Quando hai finito di montare la pista, regola accuratamente la lunghezza dei cavi (facendo
scorrere su è giù il cursore rosso). Per verificare se i vari tratti della pista hanno la corretta
pendenza, fai correre qualche biglia a mano.
ITA

With elevator
Con l’ascensore
Avec l’ascenseur
mit Aufzug
Con el elevator
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Snap apart
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pezzi
pièces
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Lorsque tu as fini de monter la piste, régule avec attention la longueur des câbles en faisant
glisser le curseur rouge. Pour vérifier si les divers segments de la piste ont une inclinaison
correcte, fais rouler quelques billes manuellement. Si les billes roulent jusqu’en fond de la piste
sans sortir du virage ni s’arrêter sur les montées, tu es alors prêts pour aviver l’ascenseur
motorisé pour créer une cascade de billes spectaculaire et sans fin.
Remarque que les crochets de la chaîne peuvent être positionnés à différentes dis-
tances l’un de l’autre, de manière à créer une fréquence de descente des billes
toujours plus diverse. Ceci est d’autant plus utile si tu utilises ensembles tou-
tes les billes de différentes matières qui ont des vitesses de roulements
diverses.
FRA
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Quando hai finito di montare la pista, regola accuratamen-
te la lunghezza dei cavi (facendo scorrere su è giù il cur-
sore rosso). Per verificare se i vari tratti della pista hanno la cor-
retta pendenza, fai correre qualche biglia a mano. Se le biglie
arrivano fino in fondo senza uscire dalle curve e senza fermar-
si nelle salite, sei pronto ad avviare l’ascensore motorizzato per
creare una spettacolare cascata di biglie senza fine.
Nota che i dentini della catena possono essere posizionati a
varie distanze uno dall’altro, in modo da creare una frequenza di
discesa delle biglie sempre diversa. Questo è particolarmente utile
se usi tutte insieme biglie di diverso materiale che hanno velocità di
scorrimento diverse.
ITA
Once you have finished building the track, adjust carefully the length of the suspension cables
(by sliding up and down the red cursor). To check that all the stretches of track have the correct
inclination, drop a few marbles by hand. If the marbles arrive safely to the bottom of the track, without
exiting at the turns or stopping at the climbs, you are ready to start the motorized elevator. In this way
you can create a spectacular and endless cascade of marbles.
Note that red-hooks can be attached to the chain at different distances from each other: in this way you
can create different intervals between the marbles during their descent. This is particularly useful if you
use all together marbles made in different materials that have different rolling speeds.
ENG
Una vez acabado el montaje de las pistas, regula con cuidado la longitud de los
cables de suspensión, deslizando el tensor rojo. Para comprobar que todos los
tramos de la pista tienen la inclinación correcta, haz rodar algunas canicas manualmente.
Si las canicas ruedan hasta el final sin salirse en las curvas ni pararse en las subidas, está
listo para que funcione el elevador motorizado, pudiendo de esta manera crear espectacula-
res cascadas de canicas sin fin.
Observa que los ganchos rojos de la cadena, pueden estar colocados a diferente distancia uno del otro,
de esta manera, puedes crear diferentes intervalos entre las canicas durante el descenso. Esto es par-
ticularmente útil, si utilizas juntas todas las canicas de materiales diferentes ya que tienen diferente
velocidad de descenso.
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Requires 2 “AA” batteries (not included)
Necesita 2 “AA” baterìas (non adjuntadas)
Nécessite 2 piles “AA” (non incluses)
Richiede 2 pile “AA” (non incluse)
Er braucht 2 Batterien “AA” (nicht enthalten)

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Ground Tracks
Piste a Terra
Pistes À Terre
Grundpisten
Pistas a Tierra
Pista a Chão
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GSKYRAIL: INTRODUCTION AND PRINCIPLES
Congratulations for having chosen to play and learn with
SKYRAIL SUSPENSION the only marble run in the world
that reproduces the spectacular technology of SUSPEN-
SION BRIDGES.
The CENTRAL TOWER is an architectural marvel, very
light but rock solid, easy to lift and move around and, most
of all, extremely FUN to build. Just follow the detailed
assembly instructions included in this manual and in less
than an hour you will have completed a striking and futuri-
stic structure. Then assemble the rails and connect the
cables and you will have built an exciting aerial pathway
that will be the main attraction of your room.
With the RAILS of Skyrail Suspension you can build the
longest marble run in the world, spanning up to 40 feet, for
spectacularly aerial tracks, that even glow in the dark.
The track can be assembled in many different ways: some
are illustrated in the previous manual pages, but you can
invent many other ones freely expressing your creativity.
You can start from the base track illustrated in the
assembly instructions then you can simply move the rails
to different “floors” of the tower and adjust consequently
the length of cables. Or you can change completely the
shape of the track. There are no limits to your fantasy. You
can even build tracks on ground pillars without the suspen-
sion cables. With Skyrail Suspension you will always dis-
cover new ways of building.
Contrary to most marble runs with Skyrail Suspension
marbles don’t travel only downward at constant speed, but
can accelerate impressively down steep slopes then climb
uphill until almost reaching a stop, roll quietly along flat
plateaus, and then again down chilling plunges at full
speed.
The ingenious (and world patented) CABLE-SYSTEM that
supports the tracks in mid-air is extremely easy to adjust:
in this way you can speed up or slow down the marbles
during their journey from the top of the tower to the bottom.
By reasoning and experimentation you will be able to find
the maximum speed that marbles can travel along the
track without exiting at the curves.
Here is our suggestion for a FUN
GAME that will stimulate your curio-
sity and will push you to experiment
and reason for a long time: with
your watch or a chronometer, TIME
how long it takes to the marbles to
run down the base-track. Now
design a new track configuration that will reduce to the
minimum the run time. But… careful, when marbles go too
fast they exit easily at the curves! You can also design the
opposite type of track, where marbles take the longest
time to descend. Try, it’s not easy!
Skyrail Suspension is designed in such way that almost all
types of MARBLES can run along its tracks: marble sizes
from a minimum of 14 mm to a maximum of 21 mm, and
in any material, such as metal, plastic, wood, glass and in
any weight. Each marble type will run at different speeds
and will allow you to observe, experiment and discover the
laws of physics and to understand intuitively the funda-
mental principles. This is actually an exceptional educatio-
nal value that makes Skyrail Suspension unique and an
irreplaceable learning instrument.
For those of you that are more “scientific”: Skyrail repre-
sents an “inclined plane” which allows you to experiment
with the 3 laws of “dynamics”, like Galileo.
MAKE EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOVER PHYSICS
FORCES
SPEED: the speed of a
marble depends on many
factors: how steep is the
descent, the size of the
marble, its weight, what
material it is made of.
Make this experiment: drop
3 different types of marbles
together from the top of the track and notice in which way
they run down. If the first marble is slower than the other
ones, the pursuing marbles will keep bumping into it. If it
is faster, it will leave the chasing marbles more and more
behind. Now place the marbles at the starting point in the
correct order, from fastest to slowest, then notice their
sizes and materials. This observation should suggest you
some clue on the reasons of their different speeds. If not,
keep reading and experimenting.
ACCELERATION:
and its opposite,
DECELERATION,
is what happens
when there is a
variation of speed.
If speed increases there is acceleration, if speed decrea-
ses there is deceleration. What makes a marble accelera-
te or decelerate? The most obvious answer is: a variation
of slope. Drop a marble from the top of the tower and
observe its slow starting speed along the gentle initial slo-
pe; then the marble begins to go faster, accelerating until
it reaches the maximum speed at the bottom of the first
steep drop. Then the marble decelerates rapidly until
almost reaching a stop at the top of the following climb.
This speed changes repeat all the way down to the base
of the tower. Why do marbles accelerate downhill? Becau-
se of GRAVITY! See next paragraph.
GRAVITY: is the force that keeps us attached to the
ground, without gravity we would just float around like
astronauts in their space vehicles. Without entering
more complete physics explana-
tions (that each of you can find
in books or with the help of tea-
chers) one of the main effects of
gravity is WEIGHT. Weight is
directly related to MASS. Simply
speaking mass is how much
material is concentrated in an
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object. For example a boulder is very heavy because
there is a lot of compact material in it; however a balloon
of the same size has much less material in it (mostly air)
so is very light. Let’s now examine the marbles supplied
with Skyrail Suspension: the small steel marbles are the
ones with more mass so are the heaviest. The glow-in-
the-dark marbles on the contrary are much lighter even
if they are quite larger, because made of plastic. So you
are beginning to understand that gravity is a force that
acts on marbles during their run and has effects on their
speed, accelerating or decelerating them according to
the slope: the longer the slope the more time gravity has
to exert its power.
CENTRIFUGAL FORCE: is
the force that makes mar-
bles go out of the turns
when they are too fast or
makes them go around a
loop instead of falling down
in the middle of it. This hap-
pens because any object
tends to maintain the same straight direction if there are no
other forces to make it change its path. So, since there are
no guard-rails along the turns of Skyrail Suspension, mar-
bles tend to keep going straight if they have enough
speed. The only force that can
contrast this straight motion is
gravity that pushes the mar-
bles down against the rails.
You can experiment what is
the maximum speed that each
type of marble can travel to
remain inside the rails and go
around the turn. You can regu-
late the arriving speed of mar-
bles to the turns by adjusting
the length of cables. You will discover that the steel mar-
ble is the one that can travel along the turn at higher
speed. By now you should intuit why: it has more mass so
gravity keeps it more “attached” to the rails; and it’s smal-
ler so the external rail makes more resistance to its ten-
dency to exit.
KINETIC ENERGY:
assemble the tracks
in such way to have
a descent and then
an ascent of exactly
the same inclination and length. Then drop two marbles
exactly in the same moment from the two tops in opposite
directions. This is a very interesting and fun experiment
that will allow you to understand better concepts like
MASS and KINETIC ENERGY. Kinetic Energy is the
energy an object accumulates in itself because of its mass
and of its movement (from the Greek “Kinesys”). Let’s see
what can happen to the marbles: 1) If you drop two mar-
bles of the same type (same material, size and weight)
they will crash at the bottom of the track, right in the midd-
le between the two climbs, and stop each other instantly,
bouncing back slightly. Why? Because they have stored
the same amount of kinetic energy: during the collision this
energy is transferred from one marble to the other, and
makes the marbles stop on the spot. 2) If you change the
dropping point of one of the 2 marbles you will see that the
marble starting higher will push backward the marble star-
ting lower. Why? Because the higher marble has reached
a higher speed and so has stored more kinetic energy that
passing to the slower marble makes it move backward for
quite a distance. 3) Now drop 2 different types of marbles
from the same height, for example a steel marble and a
glass marble. What happens? Which one will push back-
ward the other one, the smaller one or the bigger one? As
you have learnt before, what matters is the mass of the
marble: so the smaller marble that has a bigger mass will
easily shoot backward the larger marble with less mass. 4)
But you can have the glass marble push backward the
steel marble if you reduce the kinetic energy in the steel
marble. How to do this? Simply have the steel marble start
its descent from a much lower point: gravity will have a
much shorter distance to build energy into the steel mar-
ble and the glass marble will win!
INERTIA: is an effect of the
amount of Kinetic Energy
that an object has stored into
itself because of its speed
and its mass. You can clearly
see the effect of inertia if you
drop marbles down a steep
descent and then you observe how much they can go up
the following ascent. So you will notice that a steel mar-
ble will climb longer, although not faster, because it has
stored more energy in its bigger mass during the descent.
A plastic marble on the contrary will not even make it to
the top, although you would expect it to because it’s ligh-
ter, but its smaller mass didn’t accumulate enough
energy. Fascinating!
FRICTION: is another significant force that acts on mar-
bles during their run, but only to
decelerate them, even when
they go downhill. Friction is cau-
sed by the rubbing of two objects
against each other. The rougher
the materials of which they are
made, the more friction there is.
Also, the heavier the objects the more friction there is
(think of when you try to move a piece of furniture: if it is
full there is too much friction with the floor and you have
to make a big effort. If you empty it, it slides much more
easily). The surface of all objects is rough even if it seems
very smooth: just look at it through a powerful magnifying
lens or a microscope. The marbles in Skyrail Suspension
rub against the rails and produce a certain amount of fric-
tion. Keep in mind that if marbles slid instead of rolling
down the amount of friction would be much higher. To find
out which type of marble has more friction run the various
types down a gentle slope with a long flat plateau at the
end. Observe which marble goes farther: the material and
the weight of that marble generate less friction against the
rails (in fact there is no significant air resistance, so fric-
tion is the only decelerating factor, while there is not
enough speed for a noticeable inertia effect).
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