Magnum Painting

Looks really cool. Better then I thought!

Man! I cannot wait till May 13th!

From these pictures today, I think it looks hot! Definately seems more red than orange, but whatever.

OMG. Beautiful. Absoultely spiffing.

I have a question are they also going to be painting the suports that silver too or are they going to leave it? I think they are going to paint those a new silver to make it look nice. Walt how far have they got with painting it is the lift hill somewhat done or did they just start?

Yes they will be painting the supports silver.
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I was meaning the supports on the lift hill there are a lot and there is only 35 days to do it do you think it would be the whole ride or just where the sopports are visiable?

You got a rollback on the 23th of July.

35 days should suffice. I'm pretty sure they paint it like this: Using electronic current, they charge the metal and paint. Then its like super spray painting...The paint sticks right to the surface and minimal time is needed. I know this is how the metal company building a suspension bridge painted the metal for the bridge. I'd imagine CP uses this same method.

Does this mean that Millennium Force is next on the list of being painted, in one or two years?

As far as I know, this is Magnum's first major repaint since it was built 16 years ago. That put's Millie at 2015 or 2016...

Just a random idea that I had, but I figured it would make sense for them to get the track painted, then do the supports after that. You could do testing if the supports weren't done, but it would be hard to paint the track and test at the same time.

Very good point

You can't test and paint that the same time. :)

My logic on the way they are doing this is painting the ride from the top down. If you painted the supports first, you would get orange paint drops all over the supports.

Another good point

ForgottenEE said:
You can't test and paint that the same time. :)

My logic on the way they are doing this is painting the ride from the top down. If you painted the supports first, you would get orange paint drops all over the supports.

As far as I know, you wouldn't get paint drips, unless CP seriously brush paints...I'm willing to bet they use magnetized spray painting techniques (for lack of better terminology). It makes it much quicker to paint large items, and easier to paint hard to reach spaces.

You obviously haven't looked at the pavement under Mantis or Raptor.

Plus, Cedar Point isn't doing the painting.

If they paint buy hand, I feel really sorry for them.

By looking at this photo, it is obvious that they are indeed hand painting the track.

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=2200

Spraying would be a mess. The over-spray would get on things that you wouldn't want paint to get on, like the supports.

MrScott