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Postby GoBears on May 19th, 2014, 7:10 pm
7:10 and they're still out there working. I have a feeling they will be staying late the remainder of this week and next to finish this up.

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Postby Beavis97 on May 19th, 2014, 7:11 pm
That's the guy that comes in at 5 and does lift chain track


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Postby Goku1910 on May 19th, 2014, 10:54 pm
Beavis97 wrote:That's the guy that comes in at 5 and does lift chain track


uhhh. What?
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Postby kossdude1 on May 20th, 2014, 6:38 am
^ Over the past two days after 5pm, there appears to only be anti rollback and chain return going in. During that time (and I've seen it in person too), there's appeared to be only one person working at the lift hill and nobody else in sight. So unless RMC cuts back dramatically on their crews and has the ones still working work in areas allowing them not to be seen after 5, this guy must be the only one working after that time (besides perhaps a crane operator).
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Postby GoBears on May 20th, 2014, 8:38 am
I think it was around 7:15 or 7:30 last night, I saw about 3 guys out there working but yes, they were working on the chain return track.
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Postby Dmrbug on May 20th, 2014, 10:07 am
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Got to watch the topper track going up yesterday. Something I noticed is that the motor for the chain at the top of the drop is installed.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 20th, 2014, 10:14 am
^ The motor is at the base of the lift. Only things up at the top are two sprockets,
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Postby GoBears on May 20th, 2014, 10:19 am
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Postby BackwardsBlue on May 20th, 2014, 10:22 am
And we still have the zero g stall track to go up


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Postby GoBears on May 20th, 2014, 10:24 am
Hmm... well, they just took the piece back down to the ground.

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Postby Dmrbug on May 20th, 2014, 10:25 am
DejaVu2001 wrote:^ The motor is at the base of the lift. Only things up at the top are two sprockets,


Yes sorry, the sprockets are installed at the top.
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Postby diggerg56 on May 20th, 2014, 12:26 pm
Are they Spacely Sprockets? :wink:

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Postby GoBears on May 20th, 2014, 1:13 pm
diggerg56 wrote:Are they Spacely Sprockets? :wink:

(sorry for the old reference for those that don't get it)


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I know there's at least one car on the track already from a couple weeks ago, but have they added more since then?
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Postby Beavis97 on May 20th, 2014, 1:29 pm
They must be having problems with that last piece for the lift. They should have been working on the zero-g stall by now


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Postby Goku1910 on May 20th, 2014, 2:26 pm
Nope. Zero-G stall is last due to the cranes position. Lift is done now.
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Postby Beavis97 on May 20th, 2014, 2:29 pm
Good. Add 2 pieces of track to the stall before 5 and let's get rolling! :)


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Postby nick42085 on May 20th, 2014, 2:34 pm
Anybody have an idea when we could see some testing going on? (Obviously not for a while though)
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Postby CoasterMike on May 20th, 2014, 2:36 pm
nick42085 wrote:Anybody have an idea when we could see some testing going on? (Obviously not for a while though)


Hopefully by this weekend. If not, then the ride will probably have to be pushed back a few days.
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Postby DejaVu2001 on May 20th, 2014, 2:41 pm
Beavis97 wrote:Good. Add 2 pieces of track to the stall before 5 and let's get rolling! :)


Sure, doesn't matter that there is currently nowhere to mount the track on the Zero-G Stall.
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Postby Beavis97 on May 20th, 2014, 2:42 pm
They can have that installed on the track already and just mount it to the structure


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Postby Goku1910 on May 20th, 2014, 3:42 pm
Beavis97 wrote:They can have that installed on the track already and just mount it to the structure


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Doesn't work like that. The supports need to be there before the track is put up. They can't assemble something that wide on the ground and lift it. That's basic laws of physics. Have you ever watched a coaster being built? They never lift track with supports mounted to it.
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Postby Jacklw6499 on May 20th, 2014, 4:00 pm
Looks like only the zero G stall is the big thing left! I'm sure this baby will be ready by friday afternoon! :D
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Postby Goku1910 on May 20th, 2014, 4:28 pm
Hopefully the lift stairs will be done before the storms hit. Seems like they have about 2 sections more to go.
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Postby CoasterMike on May 20th, 2014, 8:46 pm
They can finish the ride by Friday! I can just feel it. They only have to finish the lift, the zero g roll and fill the drop with grout, and get the train(s) on the track and start testing.
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Postby Iron Wolf 90-11 on May 20th, 2014, 9:18 pm
They are going to put new queues where the old Iron Wolf ones were that were removed.
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