Olympus
#1
Posted 01 May 2005 - 11:09 AM
Olympus will be a rocket coaster that reaches the 20 feet mark. The rest of the lay-out will contain a lot of camelbacks. Of course this will be powered by rubberbands. Because of this the train won't be longer than 4 cars. I'll do everything to get it amazingly sturdy. The coaster won't be freestanding while building it. After construction I'll remove the ropes holding it. That means it'll be freestanding, and thus the tallest freestanding coaster (am I right at that point? I'm not sure).
Olympus is the tall mountain in Greece that reaches the clouds and where the gods live on top of it.
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#2
Posted 06 May 2005 - 05:53 PM
Because I'll have much more knex when I'll start this, the train will be 5 cars long, the supports will contain more 3D-connectors and the lay-out will be longer (extra: 200 crossties, 100 flexi-rods and 112ft of tubing).
Am I right about being it the tallest freestanding coaster when reaching the 20 feet mark?
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#3
Posted 06 May 2005 - 06:15 PM
2003 - Thunder Twist | Iron Falcon | Insanity | Voltage | Banshee
2004 - Centaur | Polar Plunge | Chaos | Nessie | Eclipse | Desert Eagle
2005 - K2 | Jaguar
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Posted 06 May 2005 - 09:52 PM
#5
Posted 12 May 2005 - 03:13 PM
Expect construction to start right after demolishing of ToZ.
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 12:15 AM
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#9
Posted 14 May 2005 - 04:59 PM
pull-up and pull-out will be 10 feet tall.
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#10
Posted 15 May 2005 - 02:15 PM
On the Dutch eBay website I found another pile of knex. In the last minute I placed my bid and I won that pile. It's more than 22 lbs.
So in total I'll have more than 40 lbs of extra knex for Olympus. I'll need a lot of pieces for the freestanding structure. I'll have a lot of pieces, so expect something special.
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Posted 16 May 2005 - 02:35 PM
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#12
Posted 19 May 2005 - 02:41 PM
#13
Posted 19 May 2005 - 02:48 PM
Knex_Krazy.
p.s: im back to building once my dad has started and finished putting flooring in the loft so i can build on my 2nd floor then (loft converison i have but not the whole loft just a bit of it!!)
Stealth: 205ft, 0-80 = 1.8 seconds can only be Thorpe park
Im Back! 3 and half years break still going strong
#14
Posted 20 May 2005 - 07:38 AM
I'll build pieces of the big spike in pieces of approx. 7 feet each. I'll assemble them outside, so the whole 25 feet structure will be lying down on the ground. Structure will be very sturdy, because I'm going to pull it from horizontal to vertical with ropes, standing on the 2nd floor of the house.
May 28th I'll be showing ToZ to QAFS and SebAsSs, after that I'll start deconstruction of ToZ. Once that has been done, construction on Olympus will start.
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#15
Posted 26 May 2005 - 02:49 PM
The camelback will end with an overbanked turn, because the camelback would be too long for our garden
I was thinking of a CO2 launch, but I think it'll be too fast for a 25 feet coaster. I guess I'll use a rubberbands launchrun of 16 feet then.
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#16
Posted 30 May 2005 - 01:29 PM
At the moment I'm working on the Official Knexprojects CD that will be released after Olympus being completed.
I'm demolishing ToZ as well.
After this I'll make tutorials that will be on the CD. And then, when I finally received my new pieces, I'll start working on this gigantic coaster.
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#17
Posted 03 June 2005 - 12:28 PM
EDIT
Unfortunately the construction pictures got lost over the years.
Edited by Jogumpie, 13 February 2013 - 04:46 PM.
Updating all my construction threads.
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Posted 03 June 2005 - 12:40 PM
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Posted 03 June 2005 - 01:22 PM
btw your tophat is nice pointy!