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B&M Question
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What makes B&M rides so smooth?
Good transitions, good engineering, and spring loaded shocks in the wheel assemblies.
Also is it just me or does the B&M rides does not make a loud clicking noise going to the chain lift.
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Rapotor is louder than any other anti-rollback I've been on.
Yeah, B&M chaindogs are no quiter than others. (I think Batmans has a special surface to it that quiets it, but only when requested, its not a standard B&M feature)
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Ouch. That noise hurt my ears, loudest one Ive ever heard.
But have you guys heard an Intamin antirollback? There are little generators that create an electromagnet when the train is moving foward to keep the antirollbacks up. If the train stops moving forwards the rollbacks drop down, creating quite possibly the smoothest sounding lift ever - AKA S:RoS and MF. But yes, most B&Ms are very quiet too. Lots of grease.
Superman U:F's lift is very silent. And that's B&M. RB's seems fairly quiet too!
I believe S:UF's anti rollbacks are polymer coasted because of its distance to the "neigbors"
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off topic: do supermans antiroll backs look backwards when you look at them on the track?
on topic: B&M's are smooth because the wheels on the bottom of the track are tight against it and spring loaded.
There are more reasons than that my friend.
They are engineered very smart and have smooth transitions. . . then there was TOGO . . .
Not only that, but just the fact that you have a 12" wall of whatever above you on Superman can help make it quieter.
No the sound would go around the wall. They already said it was because of noise to neighbors.
does anyone know what im talking about that the anti rollbacks on S:uf look backwards?
Nope, They are forwards.
http://rcdb.com/installationgallery1977.htm?Picture=8 Its hard to tell in that picture, but if you think about it, if they were backwards, they would be more like anti-anti-rollbacks instead of anti-rollbacks. Around the world and back
Yes backwards anti-rollbacks would be pointless when you think about it. It would just go tick tick tick and roll down the lift hill if the chain stalled.
Wouldn't the train only go back down the lift if the chain snapped.
Yeah, I know. That's why I said "Not only that..."
No, theres anti rollbacks.
No. If the power stops, the train can go back down the lift hill, pulling the chain backwards. The motor can be moved in either direction, however, it always moves the train up the lift hill, not down it.
Aren't there anti-rollbacks that make it impossible to go down the lift hill?
I'm sure the motor could be switched to backwards though. Top 5 wood-5-Goliath 4-Ravine Flyer II 3-Phoenix 2-Voyage 1-El Toro
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All anti-rollbacks make it impossible to go down the lift w00dland.
I read somewhere that B&M also put sand in the spine of the track to help with something.
It helps calm the "Beemer` Roar."
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