Search results

At what point did we all give up taking the piss out of you for......... "overshooting"....... and leaving the train parked at the bottom of the lift :p

Generally speaking, wet rails and wheels make for a much faster ride to the point where it can become dangerous on older coasters that don't have any form of speed monitoring and moderation. So a ride not being open until it dries out makes sense to me if it has trouble running too fast in the...

Some do.... New flat rides have regen braking from the manufacturer and older ones can be refitted with a suitable drive that has a capacitor bank instead of a braking resistor. The problem with using it on coasters though is that full regen braking isn't considered fail safe like straight up...

It's all done for attention, I've lost count how many videos on youpube show up in recommended that say something along the lines of "This ride was torn down after this..." with a rediculously photoshopped image. The mainstream news is no different, ride incidents are so rare it is big news for...

It depends on what country you plan on building the ride in. I don't know about the US and Canada but UK and EU law require independant primary and secondary restraints on rides built after 1997. Anything older was required to have a maturity risk assessment to continue operating. This is...

One Vekoma engineer I knew was more concerned about dropping his lettuce than he was about the 10000 litres of hydraulic oil he just contaminated with it..... sooo.... Anyway, I remember thinking to myself this aint right the first time I went on Big Dipper at Blackpool. Feeling and seeing the...

Trust me, Chinese rides don't seem to meet any western standards.... I have personally reviewed designes for 3 seperate major rides from 3 seperate Chinese companies and none of them even come close to meeting UK safety standards. If the standards are not met under UK law then the ride becomes...

Multiple DC motors will work independently from each other even though they are being powered by the same controller. The problem with this setup however is that DC motors will need a lot of maintenance to keep them all performing the same otherwise you end up with them running at wildly...

These idiots caused damage to Kumali in the form of a broken sensor, wiring pulled out the control panel and a bent chain guide at the top of the lift. The video only shows Richard Cranium starting to climb up onto the chain guide though. Tresspass would only become a crime if security asks...

You would be suprised at how much......... adjustment..... needs to be done to a new ride. The worst thing I ever saw was a 3 metre gap between the last 2 track pieces. According to the IntraSys manual, these magnet yokes work as both brakes and motors without any special modifications either...

I think Kumali is upset now that it's not the parks main attraction. I'm glad someone agrees with me.

Yup Normally you would be correct but the rattle didn't improve as far as my arse could tell 😁 I suspect the wheels are losing less energy because they aren't skidding anymore, at least on the front car. I've still to do the rest of the train.

Unfortunately I only had time to do the first 2 axles and it didn't seem to make much difference in that particular car. On the plus side though, the train actually lost .1 seconds from its average lap time and it's coming into the brakes at just over 18m/s, which is up from 17.5m/s before I did...

I have no idea either. I was told not to put any orders for parts for Flip Flop as it was being scrapped after we had that first lockdown. Then they go and spend 300 grand on a pair of new gearboxes for it 😑 After all the faffing around trying to get it going after being stood for 2 years it...

Yep, it took me and 2 Intamin engineers scratching out collective heads 4 weeks to figure out how to shut the dam thing up. The solution turned out to be 35Kg springs and............ tape......

Ye that was my fault, sorry 😁 I uhm...... misplaced...... a bit of the train.... Almost sounds like a challenge 😎 Indeed it is, but for track that is fresh from the factory, conditioning is usually complete after the first few hundred cycles. At this point you can then start tightening the...

The vibration is happening because I've still got a small gap going on the upstop wheels to help condition the track without tearing through the road wheels. I'm planning on putting full 20kg tension on the upstops this week so that will completely smooth everything out. Fingers crossed I don't...

What the feck does he know? Other than visiting the park every other day and pissing everyone off, I'd love to know what makes him such an expert on everything? I was trying to get Mumbo back up and running once and he just happened to be there, he kept shouting at me with what he thought was...

You would not believe the arguments I've had regarding the queue going over the winch rope, if I said it here it would be nothing but ***** The clanging is the anti rollbacks not lifting up properly as the magnet wheel isn't gripping on the curved part. We have an Intamin engineer coming for a...

Apparently he has denied all knowledge of it...... If they looked like they just got out of bed and are at the end of their rope then it was me 😁 The ride itself performed almost flawlessly all day with only 2 minor faults which, as an engineer, I am really happy with. Wish I could say the...