Pull Through

Vince, I'm thinking that they may just not have cut the "hands" into the plywood yet.

^Does it matter if it has hands? It does the same thing, with or without a bunch of cuts.

^^^KK and TTD are 456 and 420 feet high. Mav is 105.. think about it.

Ironically, I can reach beyond the clearance frame they used on MF by a good 6-8". I've never hit my hands on the infamous support since I pulled my hands down at that point when the ride first opened. I honestly have not even tried to hit that support since they reworked it. I don't see the need to bleed.

TTD4Life said:
^Does it matter if it has hands? It does the same thing, with or without a bunch of cuts.

I kind of thought that by having them, if there were a clearance issue, the "hand" would break off nearest to where the clearance issue was, allowing them to know exactly where the problem is. As a result, you'd help to reduce the risk of damage to the train or something, which might happen if the piece weren't able to break free easily. Similar to beak-away street signs.

(Edit: Spelling) *** Edited 1/15/2007 2:23:10 PM UTC by DBCP***

^^I always get scared of that support when I'm in the right seat. That's why I always make my friend sit in it, while I sit on the left.:)

*** Edited 1/15/2007 1:52:15 PM UTC by TTD 120mph***

I think you've got your right and left seats mixed up, Adam... The altered support would be on your right... Unless, of course, you're afraid of sitting too far away from it. :)

DB - the train shouldn't be going through fast enough to "break off" anything. Its being walked through with guys following it and checking clearances all the way around.

As for the tunnel, if the supports are the innermost part, i.e. the wall will be outside of the supports, they could do the walkthrough and then put the walls on. If the train clears all the supports, then it will clear the walls.

^^Ah yes, the right seat. Thanks.:P

^^Okay, so maybe it wouldn't break off, but it still seems to me that there is some reason that they're there.

I think it has a lot more to do with wind than anything. When you have to take something up to 400_ feet, keeping the clearance checking to a minimum (i.e. the "arm" they showed on KK) would help keep the wind from blowing the train around.

When you only have to take it to 105, and the majority of the checking will be lower, I would imagine its easier to just cut the plywood right, and not worry about making the "arms".

But if I remember the MF one correctly, it had the ovoid template and then the arms sticking out from there. So maybe we just saw an "in-progress" picture of the pull-through train.

I was thinking air resistance, but thought with it going that slow it wouldn't be that big of a deal. But the wind seems to make a lot of sense.

I'm thinking the "arms" would be less effective since something could potentially get between them. But, like people said, the workers are doing this all manually, so they should hopefully see a conflict.

As a side note, where's the "infamous" support on MF?

Neither are very good shots, but for your viewing pleasure...
http://www.gallery.pointpixels.com/details.php?image_id=10904
http://www.gallery.pointpixels.com/details.php?image_id=6764

It's located just as you begin to come out of the first turn.

I had a feeling that was the support everyone was talking about. I happened to notice that on my last trip to the Point. But, I just assumed it was designed with that cut in it. After seeing your pic though, it is clear it was chopped out and "scabbed" after the fact.

They have the car with the template on track right now! *** Edited 1/16/2007 2:37:18 PM UTC by TTD 120mph***

And so it begins! And it appears they're using 2 cars!!

Thats pretty sweet. It will be cool when they get to the bunny hill and horseshoes so we can get a closer look.

I'm sure Tony will take some good pictures.

Cant wait for that Pointcast!:)

So actually I was kinda right earlier. *** Edited 1/16/2007 4:24:48 PM UTC by ltparkmaster***