safety devices

Tis the season to be broken...
Anyone want to help me out...what are all the safety devices used on rides, and how do they work??? @ CP..this would be helpful to others new to CP as well...

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"The ride is closed due to mechanical breakdowns..
..No, the ride is CLOSED...reason being is that the cable broke
...nothin to be worried about, it was only inspected before the test
ride...it should be down for about a week...

Restraints, upstops, sensors, computers, brakes, the list goes on, can you be more specific?

Duct tape ;)
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OK......

Sensors and brakes are placed on the track throughout the ride. Basically, there is always one brake between two trains. So if the first train gets stuck or something, the sensor would detect that (the train should have rolled over here by now, it must be stuck!) and close the brake (actually it might already be closed but...) The train is always stopped if there wouldn't be a brake between it and the train in front of it. That is the basic concept of the block system.

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Anti-rollbacks, expalins itself.

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-2000 MF LAPS: 117
-2001 MF LAPS: 147
-Gemini 100: 100

Emergency Stop buttons on ride op control panels - if they see something amiss, they have the power to stop the ride by closing all brakes and stopping the lift(s) at literally the touch of a button.

And don't forget the infamous orange seatbelts!

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Has anyone else ever seen an op pull the lever on a Raptor car to unlock the harness or was I dreaming?

A new saftey devise could be gogles and a face mask at night to protect from bugs.

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Live for FUN!

Don't let life fly by.

A few weeks agp, I test rode MF, my lapbar did not come up, they used what looked like a ghostbuster machine to unlock it, what exactly is that, and how does it work?
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"Nothing wrong with a little airtime.."

Richard Kinzel

2001

*** This post was edited by floridaguy2002 on 9/6/2001. ***

I don't know about the Millennium Force one, but all the coasters do have some way to manually release harnesses, as well as a button on the control panel for most. Footpedals are the most common - both Iron Dragon and Disaster Transport have them, Corkscrew, etc. I suppose you could consider that a safety device, if the purpose is to get the guests OUT of the train to safety, as in a walk down.

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"Recheck 4,5,6...Everyone please remain STANDING, do not sit down.....and QUIT THAT BOUNCING"...."UGH...RECHECK 4,5,6"....OH well looks like you all are gonna have a painful ride!"..."CLEAR!"

Ha ha, that was great vegasbaddboy!
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It was Nikki's B-Day and Millennium Force was broken down... Coincidence?

A couple of answers from other comments in this thread...
On Raptor, the platform operator is supposed to get the tower operator to open the bars on a particular seat, OR attach a long lever to the end of the axle on the bar release linkage to rotate the linkage and release the shoulder bars. I have seen operators simply grab the wheel on the end of the linkage and pull...which also works so long as the operator doesn't hit the remote release and smash the attendant's fingers.

As for Millennium Force, the lap bars are controlled by a spring-loaded hydraulic solenoid valve. So power is required to open the lap bars; in the station that power normally comes from a bus-bar in the station. Outside the station, there is no bus-bar, so to open the lap bars an alternate power supply is needed. Say, a battery, for instance. Which is what's in the little box.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Thanks a lot!

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"Nothing wrong with some air time,"
Richard Kinzel, Ceo of Cedar Point.
(2001)