Water Coaster
#1
Posted 05 October 2003 - 12:28 PM
decided to take a break from KNEX for a while. Now I'm back and have plans
to build a water coaster similar to Roller Soaker at Hersheypark. Yes, I know the
motor isn't supposed to get wet but I have a plan so it won't. I don't
want to tell what the plan is so I can be the first to successfully build a water coaster.
Wish me luck since construction will begin tonight.
The layout will probably
be:
Station
Lift
drop
turn
drop
turn
drop
turn
brakes
turn
*Please note that all turns are 180 degree
turns.*
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
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#2
Posted 05 October 2003 - 03:49 PM
designers can do it so can we;i think
#3
Posted 05 October 2003 - 07:54 PM
positive for a change. At least I hope that was positive but I do have a plan. All I
have to do is see if it works. But first, I need to figure how to get the water like the
fountains and the curtains to work.
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
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#4
Posted 07 October 2003 - 03:57 PM
coaster into a floorless model. I will hopefully complete this. Construction will begin
soon, probably tonight, after I finish up my homework (and I'm only in 8th
grade...lol). I will be building the coaster backwards to ensure that everything works.
I will try my best to create "realistic" supports for Shipwreck.
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
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#5
Posted 07 October 2003 - 05:53 PM
done b4
#6
Posted 07 October 2003 - 06:02 PM
I had an idea to make "realistic" inverted supports but I didn't like
them so I decided to switch to an easier type of "realistic" steel (using
knex to make the supports for a actual steel roller coaster) supports.
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
<img src='http://images.google...cane%20logo.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
#7
Posted 09 October 2003 - 07:53 AM
elevated station
lift
drop
surprise element
hill
hill
1/2 hill
turnaround
1/2 drop
hill
hill
1/2 hill
turnaround
1/2 drop
hill
drop
brakes
If you're
confused with the half hill/half drop, please tell me so I can so explain it a little more
clearly. I will be building baclwards starting with the station.
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
<img src='http://images.google...cane%20logo.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
#8
Posted 09 October 2003 - 02:30 PM
elevate the turnaround. But how can you have a 1/2 drop? A drop is a drop. It starts
flat, slopes down, then flattens. How can you have a half drop?
2003 - Thunder Twist | Iron Falcon | Insanity | Voltage | Banshee
2004 - Centaur | Polar Plunge | Chaos | Nessie | Eclipse | Desert Eagle
2005 - K2 | Jaguar
#9
Posted 09 October 2003 - 07:47 PM
making a blueprint for it so you can better understand it. What I meant was a drop
from the turnaround that goes all way to the ground.
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
<img src='http://images.google...cane%20logo.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
#10
Posted 11 October 2003 - 08:10 PM
Hope to see some
Construction pics soon.
#11
Posted 11 October 2003 - 08:12 PM
drop, then a 180 degree turn before the lift.
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
<img src='http://images.google...cane%20logo.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
#12
Posted 11 October 2003 - 08:39 PM
Hope to see some construction
pics.
#13
Posted 17 October 2003 - 03:01 PM
my dad lets me borrow his digital camera. Right now, I have half the station and half
the drop completed.
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
<img src='http://images.google...cane%20logo.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
#14
Posted 17 October 2003 - 09:54 PM
pics, and then have him let you use the pics. :D
#15
Posted 01 November 2003 - 04:59 PM
OK, I was thinking about changing the name and changing the layout...
If I happen to change both, since whether I change the name or the layout,
they're both going to change, I will not release either because I have some ideas
that no one, at least I think no one, has ever done before. I don't want to release
them right now because these little immature kids seem to be stealing everyone
else's ideas...
Also, If I change the name, I will include a story to go
along with it...
~Thanks! Matt (real name)
<span style='color:yellow'>Lightning Racer Laps: 4 (2 on each)</span>
<span style='color:gray'>(HP) Wildcat Roars: 3</span>
<span style='color:green'>Batwing Flights: 1</span>
<span style='color:blue'>(HP) Comet Orbits: 6</span>
<img src='http://images.google...cane%20logo.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />