Cable shavings hit 4 riders

S2Kster said:
I'm sure Cedar Point will also make it very clear when they will be shutting down the ride.

Once they decide on a schedule, they will probably make signs to place in front of the entrance and at the park entrance.

The Bayern Kurve flat ride at KW goes down every day at 3PM for general maintence and a sign on the fence around the ride reports that.

Hey yall I'm sorry about my post last night. Sometimes I can be just too opinionated and speak my mind out too much and sometimes they are things I don't really mean. After what I said last night I hope everyone on here thinks I'm a moron. *** Edited 7/18/2004 3:18:56 AM UTC by Shawn Meyer***

Once they decide on a schedule, they will probably make signs to place in front of the entrance and at the park entrance.

That'd be a good idea. People would be able to know exactly when dragster would be down, letting them schedule out their day. Although, when I go to CP, I just do whatever comes to mind throughout the day.

-Eagle-

Smoking Marijuana isn't a bad thing or even a good one, like everything else, its what you make of it.

Also on my last post that I didn't get to make, I would like to take back things I've said about Top Thrill Dragster. Its a great ride and I"m happy thats its up and running again. I just say things that I shouldn't. I feel like a fool. My other posts were inteligiant but my last 2 were kind of dumb.

Why don't you just delete your post instead of apologizing twice?

Anyway I'm ready to talk smart. I was just curious does anyone know what kind of schedule they'll put up? Will it be down like 1 or 2 hours out of operation or does that depend on what they have to fix?

How has TTD been running since its reopening?

Is it reliable or are there long delays. I think it is great that CP and Intamin got TTD up so quickly.

TTD Launches- 14
MF Laps- 30

I was there tonight around 5:30. It ran incredibly well with a 6 train operation, but of course it went down later. The mechanics were out banging on the sled track about mid launch run, so I doubt it was "cable evaluation." It opened again at right around 11. I found it also interesting that the Line For Millennium Force was longer than Dragster when I checked.

I checked out the area of the incident, there seems to be a lot of grease and chunks of something all over, and all three cables look shinny and new. I'm not sure what they found or the reason for the incident, but I hope it was a fray or defect in the cable of some kind (which would mean simply they didn't catch it). Either way, whatever cable was on there before that ended up in pieces would not have been that old.

If they inspected the cables that morning and they were fine, it doesn't exactly put my mind at ease that the solution was simply throw some new cables up look inspect them more often. Those cables seem to have a shelf life a couple months before something goes wrong with them, so if the cause was a fray/old/defect cable (which common sense says it was because apparently all they did was replace the old cables) they would have to keep a real sharp eye for it.

Something to bear in mind...

If you look at the recent news articles on this site, you'll see that only two of the cables were replaced this time around, and that the third cable was replaced back in June. What this suggests is that the cable that caused the most recent incident was NOT the cable that broke back in June, but rather was one of the cables that was replaced last season if it was replaced at all (didn't they replace all three cables after the one broke last year?). That makes me feel a little better about the longevity of the cables...

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Joe E said:
It ran incredibly well with a 6 train operation

Are you positive it was 6 trains? Granted I wasn't there, but from what I do know, I find it hard to believe that they were running 6 trains.

Just curious.

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Sorry, I didn't count the actual trains in operation, There was no trains on the tranfer so just assumed all. I forgot the 6th train wasn't there yet, so it was 5.

S2Kster said:
they are going to shut down operation of Dragster from time to time to inspect and evaluate the cables.

Just to comment, but doesn't this seem like something they should be able to do in the morning or after the park closes without getting in the way of the parks regular scheduled operation?

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That sounds reasonable, you know after a few test runs early in the morning like around 9 oclock they could just be running trains for like 15 minutes and than inspect it for an hour and by time people get to the line it will be open.

I'm sure when they mean inspection, they mean a thorough evaluation of the cables along with other checks and inspections on the ride. I highly doubt Cedar Point would take a day away from operation if this was something they could do during park closing.

Shawn Meyer said:
That sounds reasonable, you know after a few test runs early in the morning like around 9 oclock they could just be running trains for like 15 minutes and than inspect it for an hour and by time people get to the line it will be open.

They already do perform these inspections every morning before park opening. Designating a day for the ride to not operate will allow for a good, thorough inspection of the ride without the worry of getting the ride opened that day. And, like I said before, I'm sure Cedar Point will let guests know ahead of time (via internet or signs around the entrance) of the ride's closure.