Wicked Twister Down Alot

From what I saw the shutdown today may have had nothing to do with the rear spike since that has been welded, fixed, and painted over. It appears they were working on the launch run today messsing with the LIMS. If it's not one thing it's another. Any takers on the next problem? :) :) I'm thinking lightning will fry the computer.
*** This post was edited by Joe E. 6/8/2002 3:18:19 AM ***

Man from what I have read I went on the right day, Befor I went it was closed down for a few days, And a day after I went it was closed down all day. Lucky! :) But they were doing some kind of work on the LIM's yesterday, when they closed down the ride for about 2 hours or so. And befor that it was the back tower thing.

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*** This post was edited by CP rules 6/8/2002 11:27:36 AM ***

I was riding a couple of weeks ago up front. I think it was row three. It was kind of making a bang noise. I would be interesting to know what they were fixing. Not that it matters much. I hope to get a ride this weekend....

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There are some trucks near the WT right now....Anybody know why they are there....i posted this in General...But does anybody know?

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jeffgn...

I think that was the alignment problem where the fins would brush up against the LIMs.Not sure if they got that one figured out yet.

I talked to a CP maintenance guy (older gentleman) yesterday while they were scraping the lims and spraying something on them. I asked if it would be up by that night for Coastermania and he said "There are electrical problems and a part was on the way from Intamin because the LIMS are having issues." It's new. A lot of small failures will happen quickly on anything that is new. I am sure that it is warrantied for the first year for defects.

It better be Warrantied....cuz i don't think CP can afford all the Maintenence thats needed on the WT...lol. Does anybody know approximatly when the WT will be up and running. I am planning a trip to CP sometime next week...i need to know.

As from what i saw in those pictures of the WT and S :UE....I think the S :UE has even more unsupported track then the WT does....Does anybody know if the S :UE has or had the same problems as the WT.

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- Dennis

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I don't really think anyone has any clue that day the ride will be back up.

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I heard that the ride was down because someone was putting pennies on the track to smash.

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Dennis, S:UE has been fairly reliable actually. I've only seen it down for brief periods at a time, and have never been to the park and not seen it run (except for special-case days like the X-Flight commercial shoot, where NOTHING else was running ;) )

Sometimes it sounds like S:UE is the ONLY reasonably reliable Impulse, though -- go figure...

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The trucks near the WT were for the Budweyser (sp) Clydesdale horses they had there on Saturday. ::smile::

Jeff, I do know by the way...

My mom knows one of the construction workers at CP, and he said that there is a crack at the point at which people have pointed out here, where the free track begins after the teal support ends. The crack has actually grown, and the ride has been shut down for a week, he said that reps from Intamin are there looking at the ride and CP is deciding what to do at this point, the LIMs are fine, it is the crack

well We know that there is a problem with the point where the supports end....But i thought they fixed it already...The welding stopped and i thought they replaced the bad part of the track...can anybody confirm this??....But i do hear alot about the problems with the LIMs.

Anywayz...i just hope it goes up by thursday....if the weather is good that is when i'll make my last trip to CP before returning to NYC. Next time i could come is in july. They'll probably have it fixed by then and all the bugs worked out.

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- Dennis

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Just got back for CP after a long tiring 3 days, and I talked to a ride op and a maintainance worker today. The worker just said they have been waiting for a part to come in form Intamin, but the ride op said that there is a descent crack in the back tower just above the supports. This makes sense because just about everyday I have seen guys crawling up the tower and looking at it etc.... A brand new ride that has been down for going on a week, is not good! Oh well, I guess machines break down. Its just very dissapointing when you have been waiting to ride this ride for months now and that was my only visit to CP this season : ( Millie cheered me up though a few times though : )

I would look for the middle of the week for it to be up again. Today some of the LIM units were pulled off, nobody working on the rear spike.

Alright I just have to say this. I don't think they would let anyone ride WT on the 6th when it was open for the little bit before the next day when it was close, if there was a crack! I rode it that day and I do not believe CP would put my life indanger by opening a ride that had a major crack in it. IF there WAS a crack they would have fixed it before they opened the ride up on the 6th of June(when I rode it). They problem now have problems with the LIM's, thats what I think.

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I don't know anything more than anybody else concerning the engineering aspect of the ride, but it makes sense in my mind that the problems would not be with the LIMs. Intamin has built many impulses, why would the LIMs on WT act differently than the others?

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One little thing wrong with that much power and it could cause a lot of different problems. The LIM's are not things to be taken lightly, they use a LOT of power and if they are not done just right, things arn't going to happen the way they should.

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I quickly glanced through the previous 3 pages and this one and I don't think this had come up. Could the problem with the reverse tower be because it's going faster into the spike than S:UE or any of the other impulses do? 70 vs. 72? I would guess that the track bends and sways proportionally to the speed that the train is moving, so maybe Intimin didn't take that extra 2 mph into account when building the reverse tower with the same exposed track that other impulses have at the top? That extra 2 mph of energy, while not a huge speed differential, has to go somewhere, and possibly that is why the track has cracked? Just a thought.
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I don't think the extra 2 Mph would be a big factor in the cause of the crack...but doesn't the WT train go up higher on the Reverse Spike then the forward spike??...There is More stress put on the Reverse spike then the forward spike...But yea i agree that there is something intamin didn't do right when building the reverse spike...I think intamin could have done a better job on the WT.

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