Heartline Removed!

Loopy said:

buckeyeminister said:
They dont just higher any engineer straight out of college.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

"Hello, Kettle? This is buckeyeminister. You're black!"

John, it's pointless.

JuggaLotus said:
Buckeye - the coaster companies are not some exclusive group that gets the pick of all the engineers before all the other engineering firms.

First off, they generally get people who are interested in coasters to begin with (just like Ford, GM and Toyota generally get people who are interested in cars). This alone limits the talent pool. Do they take the best and brightest they can find from here? Sure, but that doesn't mean they are the best and brightest out of all the engineers.

I should scan the rejection letter I got Arrow

The Engineer said:

JuggaLotus said:
Buckeye - the coaster companies are not some exclusive group that gets the pick of all the engineers before all the other engineering firms.

First off, they generally get people who are interested in coasters to begin with (just like Ford, GM and Toyota generally get people who are interested in cars). This alone limits the talent pool. Do they take the best and brightest they can find from here? Sure, but that doesn't mean they are the best and brightest out of all the engineers.

I should scan the rejection letter I got Arrow

. . . that I got from Arrow.

Boy, some days your fingers just don't want to cooperate.

In the blue bar above your post is an edit function.

Just a heads up.

Engineer - they still only take the best that they can get. I didn't mean that they just blindly take everyone that's interested. But to think that the coaster companies somehow get the best engineers in the world is just an assinine statement.





Yes, I know I spelled assinine wrong, but I prefer this spelling.


Oh, and sorry to hear they didn't hire you. That would be pretty cool to work for one of the coaster companies.

*** Edited 5/18/2007 5:15:17 PM UTC by JuggaLotus***

Jeff said:

halltd said:
^ I don't really buy that. They install each piece of track one by one, so they should be able to remove them one by one too.

Well you should buy it, because it's true. When the ride is assembled, it has to be done in a particular order. The supports typically sit at one end or the other of a section, so no significant piece sits unsupported when they go home at night.

Sorry, Jeff but i'll have to disagree.

Knowing how the tracks and columns layout (see the wonderful sketch referred to earlier), I don't see how the long end of a track segment won't be left unsupported when they go home.

Bear in mind that these track segments have been deisgned to support their own weight, plus the weight of the train and passengers, plus the dynamic loading conditions as the train passes a given point. A track segment supporting its own weight only is easy.

JuggaLotus said:
Secondly, they are humans. Not gods.

Link please?

Since we're back on the topic of unsupported track pieces being bad, I'll go ahead and add a couple links to the construction of the coaster. Like Engineer said, the track is connected to the piece behind it, making the "lever" even longer. The cantilever is no big deal at all. Someone should've told the guy in the last picture not to stand under that piece though. It could've bent and crushed him in mere seconds. :)

For your viewing pleasure:

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=5740
http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=5705
http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=5062

edited for grammar. *** Edited 5/18/2007 6:06:32 PM UTC by halltd***

god

not god

Happy? ;)

LMAO - You know, just after I posted that, I started brainstorming as to how you'd reply. Good game with Stevie. Good game. :)

WHO CARES WHY THE TRACK IS CUT??? (sorry I have been yelling this most of the way through the post every time the "well that's not why they cut it, this is" argument comes up.

Is it really going to matter?

Is it that big of deal?

Will it make it open any sooner?

The answers to all these are no. Bottom line, old track is removed, which to me tells me we should be seeing new track fairly soon...Thats all that really matters to me...I mean 4 out f the 6 pages are arguments about why they cut the track. I am sure the people removing the old track know what they are doing...
*** Edited 5/18/2007 6:18:30 PM UTC by JoshBrown***

That was the first thing that popped into my head when you wanted links proving that.

^ - well, since the people designing the old track didn't seem to know what they were doing, that's a pretty big assumption you are making there.

*** Edited 5/18/2007 6:17:12 PM UTC by JuggaLotus***

^^ God forbid people on an enthusiast site show some... enthusiasm.

No kidding. There's nothing wrong with heated discussion. Besides, I'm passionate about what I do and what I like. Coasters, construction and design being three MAJOR components of my life and career. It brings excitement to the forum too. :)

Plus, I learned something new today about Magnum that I wouldn't otherwise have known if this discussion didn't come up. PkiDelerium also learned something new today. I don't know about you guys, but I LOVE learning new things. That's why I enjoy research so much.

I still can't believe that Magnum was bent and welded on site by hand (I knew that before today, but it still blows my mind). We'll never see another one like it.

Loopy said:
People were smacking their faces off of the grab bars.

That's for sure. Arrow didn't put upstop wheels on the Magnum train, it had the upstop skids like on Gemini.

Every time the train crested a hill, it would slam against the upstop skids, which would cause a braking action and slam some rider's faces into the grab bar. Sometimes at night you could see sparks fly! They converted the trains to upstop wheels in Magnum's second year.

The original profile on Magnum's third hill was a real spine compressor when sitting in the back seat. You came down hard from the airtime right when you were pulling out at the bottom of the drop. Very painful sometimes.

^^..Yes it is.and on Magnum the should ge the lapbars like similar too Milly's so it wouldnt be so painful cause i know for me when i go over those airtime hills my thighs are always red when i get off from the steel parts of the lapbar. It may be because im skinny idk but it hurts. and it would be awesome to get airtime hills..that dont hurt!..other than that i think Magnum is a great ride. Just thought i would point that out.

DEAR GOD NO.

DO NOT EVER SUGGEST SUCH A THING AGAIN.


And anyone from CP who has read the above post, ignore it. In fact, go get your self one of those neuralyzer things from MIB and flashy thing yourself in the eyes.

^^..um..wow ?..and it looks like the pond is almost all drained out. on the webcam