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[da master826]

^I'm going to leave it at that right now, but I'll leave it up so maybe one of my next coasters might be an invert.
It might be possible to add the gate. If I just replace some of the spacers with 90 degree connectors and build 180 degrees on top of those, that might work.

[RCT2123]

Go for it man...

-Rct2123:cool:

[da master826]

Got it!

Pics and a Vid:





COMMENT!

[LukeIsLuke]

Sweet. Nice job Swimzone.

[da master826]

^Why are you thanking him? If you were trying to compliment me, thank you.

[RCT2123]

^^ Fail...

^I am pretty sure he was thanking you...

This looks great man. Can you give us some close up pics of how it works, and a video of the mechanisms? That way we can patent it...

Woohoo our first patent!...

-Rct2123:cool:

[Coaster55]

Is a lift like on Scylla and Charybdis, with the sitdown on the top and invert on the bottom, too big of a thing to be patented?

[RCT2123]

^Hell no...

-Rct2123:cool:

[da master826]

I will take pics as soon as I get back from my compucamp, which ends at 12:00 Central.

[da master826]

Here are the pics. The mechanism is so simple I don't think you need a video for it. A motor turns a gear that turns a gear that moves the floor and gate. These pics and my previous video should be sufficient information for a patent. Just to let you know I have exchanged the gear placement from the original plan. The motor strained itself because it needed to use a lot of torque for a extremely small turn. By switching the gears it allows the remote controlled motor to move the floor up and down with ease.

Pics:

[Coaster55]

The red gear is pushing the floor up and bending the rod it's on. Unless it took too much torque, it would look better to have it how it was.

[da master826]

^I know it bends it a little, but it took way to much torque. I found that I had to actually needed to use some amount of strength to do it manually when the gears where that way.

[LukeIsLuke]

Elecator Lift. This is easily extendable. I'll have a video up in a while.
This is all automatic, it uses a piston to do this.

[da master826]

^That's pretty good, but can you make it look a bit more professional, like spacers on rods with gears and green rods where needed.

[iam2fast4u]

Something that just came to mind that would be cool for our company to make and maybe patent would be a dual loading launch coaster such as Mr. Freeze, and then also a secondary idea would be a dual loading invert station.

I myself when I get the chance will be working on the second idea. The station will include flipping invert switch tracks at both ends and just for a nice look I might include the dropping floor either from above or a simular design that I had come up with, hopefully it will work out well. I look forward to keeping you all udpdated with my work and please I encourage you to maybe attempt these ideas and maybe our company could put our ideas together and our designs to make a professional and well operating design. Thanks

[RCT2123]

I like you already. Please feel free to start a thread on this. It sounds like an awesome idea...

-Rct2123:cool:

[iam2fast4u]

Thank you very much, just sharing ideas and helping to keep Aminspec on top when it comes to innovative designs I will probably start a thread once I make progress and have some construction to show

[da master826]

2 things.
1)When are we getting that patent.
2) I believe I found a obvious solution that I probably should have seen before, to the problem of the gear pushing the floor up on my rising station floor. Pic:

Also I lengthened it to fit a 5 car train.

[J&Eproductions]

Very nice, I think since you finished your other coaster you should do a invert next now that you got that station half-way done. As for the Mr Freeze idea didn't tbm try re-cre that, so if someone was to re-cre that are best source would be him.

[da master826]

I am doing an invert next, in fact the lift is already built and the cars have there custom seats on them.