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[spdj]

The wait is over!!!!

Website is up, and first update is done. I gave up on making my own designed

webpage, so i just used Freewebs again, I was gonna try MS Frontpage, but too much

of a hassle.

Anyways, station and lift are done, next update will be in 2

weeks when I get the tree.

MAKE SURE TO CLICK ON Update

11/20 FOR ALL THE PICS

<a

href='http://www.freewebs....dness/index.htm' target='_blank'>Evergreen

Mountain Madness</a>

[Westside7th]

The station complex is awesome! Great

job! I can't wait to see what happens once the tree arrives! Will

there be any inversions?

[knex_krazy]

i love the station with the ticket booth and que area

along with that massive 6 foot lift hill thumbs up from me good work.

[spdj]

Yeah there will be a couple inversions. They will all be towards the

end of the ride, but I'm gonna shoot for a big loop, half loop and a corkscrew, the

first part of the ride is gonna be more like matterhorn/space mountain, with lots of

turns in and out of the tree

[spdj]

Sorry this should belong in the "Construction" forum. Will

one of the moderators please move it over there. Thanks

[sixflagsfreak56]

Hey thats pretty good! Very good station like said

before. Can't wait to see the finished production. About how many sets do you

estimate to use on this model?

[spdj]

I have 3 SS kits, plus 2 of the biggest grab bags (1 rods, 1 connectors).

Last year I had a decent amount of track left over but i ran out of connectors. What

I'm mostly worried about is running out of height and speed, not track. I know I

have plenty of that for this year

[PlatinumCoasters]

Nice to see that people are using my brakes tutorial,

:-D.

[spdj]

Yeah those are some great brakes you came up with, I've

weighted them down with washers but they still get stuck when they are down, any

idea how to make them return to full and upright position

[rob]

cant really tell by the angle but it looks as if the washer hit the pole

and stick on the other side if you were to manage to move the upright pole or make it

so it goes around the pole then it might not get caught.

[gforce]

Really doesn't look

over 6 feet tall. Nice work so far

[PlatinumCoasters]

Originally posted by spdj@Nov 23 2003, 09:37

PM
Yeah those are some great

brakes you came up with, I've weighted them down with washers but they still

get stuck when they are down, any idea how to make them return to full and upright

position

Did you put this important

piece on, the black two slot connector that is part of object "B" on the blue

rod in the picture goes between the white connectors, make sure it's in the same

direction as in the picture, this is supposed to keep the white connectors pushed apart

so the brakes do not get stuck. Hope that helped.

[spdj]

Mini Update 11/25: Lift and turn-around in place

Evergreen Mtn Madness: Update 11/25

Next update

in a few days after Thanksgiving

[gforce]

Nice job, I knew it wasn't six feet

[KnexMan200]

Thats an awesome way to conserve pieces great

work!

[Westside7th]

It is looking good! By the way, how do you

build the supports for this coaster? Do you actually build supports through the tree

branches out of K'NEX or are the tree branches strong enough to hold the

track? If you had a fake tree, you could have this whole thing built in no time!

[spdj]

Well I'm not quite sure about the supports yet. I'm gonna

try to use the branches to support more toward the top, and also to create supports

that somehow latch or hook into the trunk of the tree. Toward the bottom will be

where the inversions are and those will use typical K'NEX supports. I might also

try to use some other type of support for the top sections, maybe using PVC thin pipe,

with some sort of base. My uncle's a contractor so he's gonna help me out

with supporting it.

[spdj]

Guess what everyone, I've posted yet another update, showing

the first section of the ride in place, and tubed. I think I'm gonna call myself the

update whore now No more updates till

the tree gets here I promise.

EMM: Mini Update II: 11/26

[KnexMan200]

It looks ok for the beginning. You have to smoothen out

some edges like on the lift hill and the turn out of the station and the turn at the top.

But man that station is insanely awesome!!! Great station

work!

[spdj]

11/30 Construction Update

Some Good & Bad

News

Good News: Picked up the tree on Friday night, and started

trackwork. By Saturday morning 3 sections passing through the tree were complete.

By Saturday night, another section was added including a curved drop into a custom

height loop (bigger than the original model). That's where I'm at now, the

track layout is 4/5 done, all that's left is a straightaway under the tree and

hopefully, pieces permitting, a helix up into the brake run.

Bad News:

I'm running out of track, more specifically green flex-rods, which ultimately

means the loop will be the only inversion.

Also if you have noticed there is

no link on this post, that's because for the past 2 days Freewebs is down, and I

can't access my site to post updates. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

I'll let you know when the site is back up and the photo update is done.