MF Lift Hill Sounds?

A friend of mine told me that because of the elevator lift system, the MF will not make the clicking sounds usually heard while being pulled up the lift hill. I always thought the clicking sounds came from the anti-rollback devices, so I assumed MF will still click. Any thoughts on this. I know it’s a trivial point, but its snowing and cold and what else do we have to do :).

It will still click from the anti rolback but the elevator cable will be faster than the usual chain.

There will be NO clicking noise from the anti-rollbacks.

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Daniel J. Haverlock
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How can their be antirollbacks with no clicking?

Magnets are being used from what I understand..... therefore no noise. Superman Ride of Steel uses the same anti-rollback system and I don't recall that ride making any noise on its way up the lift.

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Wow, using magnets as an antirollback device. If they could do that, they should have just made the magnets a little more powerfull and have them lift the train up the hill. That way you do not even need an elevator lift system.

The magnets don't stop the train. I don't know precisely how it works (these are different from the S:ROS system) but the roll-backs don't engage unless the train is moving backward or there is a lack of tension on the lift device (or something like that). You've probably seen in the photos here or elsewhere that the lift track sections have a pair of I-beams with holes in them. That's where the roll-backs would engage if the train were to move in reverse. The I-beams also happen to be where the device that pulls the trains will travel.

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Jeff
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And maybe if we had the magnets fire in rapid sucession then..

If we had them move in rapid succession we could have something similar to a German prototype for a new passenger train, the magnets are turned on and off just keeping ahead of the train which pulls it along ( a very non scientific explanation) at well over 100 mph. I saw it on Discovery channel a few months back.

If you visit my web page (http://capital2.capital.edu/admin-staff/dalthoff ) you will find a link to a collection of amusement ride patents. At the bottom of the patents page, after the descriptions of the Runaway Train and Space Shot patents, there is a table of links to patents on the IBM Patent Server. One of those patents is for "Amusement device in the form of a roller coaster, monorail, or the like." That patent explains the magnetic/mechanical anti-rollback system used on Superman:Ride of Steel, which may also be employed on Millennium Force.

It's the last patent on the list. A direct link to the patents page is http://capital2.capital.edu/admin-staff/dalthoff/patents.html

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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But if you look at the pic Jeff posted in the photo gallery of MF [ the crest of the top of the lift hill]It sahould a anti-rollback slots. go look at them.

Sorry, but I was alluding to LIM or LSM wich simply put are magnets that fire in a rapid sucession.