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[~stεεlspectrum~]

Hmmmm...Pyro tells me to push the middle down, Rollerdude tells me to push the middle up. Who shall I listen to?




Phaethon's zero-G

[LCAL]

Gorgeous. It looks insane, man! I also like the speed it has, and I'm sure you will be able to do plenty after.

[RCT2123]

It looks good, but it could still go up some more. You should almost treat it like it is a hill. It should curve throughout the whole thing, and no part should be completely flat. I think it is fine the way it is, but I figured you would appreciate the super nitpicky advice. Haha...

-RCT2123

[RightWayTrey]

The coaster looks incredible so far, steel. You've really got skill with box supports.

RCT is right, but the zero-g looks beautiful right now to.


I would think you are gonna get tons more speed when you add weight and lube. I had more than 110 pennies taped to the Corkscrew cars, and the Corkscrew was tubed. I also probably re-lubed the cars at least every other week, cause it stopped making it, but after lubing it made it easily.

[coasterfanatic11]

Yummy! I like this one a lot! But no tubes? that's a new one...
and dang you! I was gonna use that name sometime!

-cf11 :cool:

[~stεεlspectrum~]

Thanks guys, RCT and RWT's posts were really helpful. I did what you said, RWT, and it has better speed now.






YouTube - Condor SloMo.wmv


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[SFMMCrazy]

I can't say a word!:eek MY 100th post!

[SwimZONE]

Looks great!-you have the same picture 3 times in a row.

[da master826]

I believe he meant to post these:


This looks very good by the way.

[rollercoasterfanatic919]

It looks great. It shakes a bit, but if your trains are weighted, you probably can't avoid that. I need to build an invert soon.

[Fraggie]

wow, this is great steel!!! like RCF said, its hard to avoid shaking when you weight your cars so much. the slo-mo speed actually looks pretty real.

[Antinos]

You're going to have to add some batter bracing or something because all that swaying is not good. Other than that, it's gorgeous.

[SFMMCrazy]

Still can say a word!

[Rollerboaster]

I've told you before that I don't the idea of having the zero G as the first element. It takes a ton of speed and will really screw up your proportions. Do what you want though and get some lats on that zero G.

[Jogumpie]

Triangles all the way, baby!

[~stεεlspectrum~]

I made the cars go a little faster in the slo-mo video than they actually go, so it doesn't shake nearly that much in real life.

I think I will lower the zero-G a granite rod, and I have some pretty good reasons:
1. Test Vid (sorry for the horrid lighting)
2. It would be more proportional to the other elements
3. That would make it less steep, and therefore more realistic

[SwimZONE]

Go ahead and do that, it sounds reasonable. But I like how it just stops at the top...

[Kraken]

Your actually right, because on all inverts I look at, the zero-g is Exactly the same height as the next element(like a few feet taller). But this is looking epic as usual...

[~stεεlspectrum~]

Nevermind, I won't have to lower the zero-G anymore. I lubed my cars, finished up the lift motor, and I tried heating my cars. That worked wonderfully, especially the heater.



The lift motor is connected to my Lego Mindstorms robot, so I can program it to go faster at the top of the lift if I end up needing to.

[SFMMCrazy]

STILL CAN'T say a word.Ok,its....its....BEAUTIFUL!