Paint Job

e x i t english said:
There are so many things I could say in this post. In fact, I typed a few of them in and then said "forget it". It's just not worth it.

I do that quite often around here.

Its probably for the best Vince. No one likes what you Candian's have to say anyway. With your "eh"s and extra 'u's thrown in randomly.

Did somebody say aboot?

Yeah, and your penchant for invading random countries. Oh...wait, that's us. Never mind. ;)

*Rummages around brain for rebuttle* Well.......*moves a few boxes around* at least.......*smoke comes out of ears*. Too tired. I'll come up with something good and get back to you by the end of the month.

This ones for you Vince

Nah, that's Granholm ;)

Ha thats a good one. I didn't know he made that one. And I'll have you know, moose meat is very good.

So are bear and elk. Better than any cut of store bought meat.

I agree that cleanliness and paint fade are two separate things and trying to equate the cost and feasibility of picking up trash with keeping fresh paint on coasters is just ridiculous.

I'll take a collection of faded coaster and a new one this year, over just having the same coasters with fresh paint and no new coaster any day!

Cedar Point keeps their coasters in very nice condition. Things can't always look like new, but CP in general does an excellent job of painting rides and buildings to make them look nice. I think some of you are being a little too picky and critical.

Does anyone notice how the paint used to repaint a ride is of much higher quality than the paint the manufacturer uses to paint the ride originally. Seems to hold up better with much less fade then the original paint.

I also noticed that Pete. The paint for Magnum still looks brand new even to this date, as well as Iron Dragon.

I would expect iron dragon to look mostley new for a couple years to come.

Most of iron dragon sits in the shade during the parts of the day with the most solar radiation.

This wouldn't happen if they used vinyl or aluminum siding instead of paint!

Hey, you want to see fade? Check out Mean Streak!

Don't look now, but Maverick is fading! Or is that sinking? I get the two confused.

O.K. now that we are done with the sillyness of this topic why not start a post on how to fix a real problem at the park?

We were done with the "sillyness" of this topic half a month ago why did you bump it?

I agree with Pete. Before Raptor got repainted, the colors were extemely faded. Now, after 5 years since the repaint job, the coaster still looks good.

The coaster parts are powdered coated when they come out of the factory and doesn't last very long with the weather conditions that CP has. Also, that's why there's a hand print on the Wicked Twister support near the line. It comes off after a while too. When they repaint a coaster, they use roll-on paint instead of powder coating which requires disassembly of the coaster, heating, etc. As in that Black Widdow coaster, they did the whole process of powder coating again instead of hand painting it.

Oh thanks. I guess that explains why new coasters loose their paint faster than re-painted ones.

Iron Dragon may look new from the midway, but if anyone could see what it looks like at the base of the second lift you would think that someone did some damage with a Crayola lol.

We've reached this far into the off-season. Does anybody think we'll have at least a touch up of paint in some spots for Millennium Force?