Here’s a pretty good explanation of what could have led to the crack on Fury 325.

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    1 year ago

    Lol I watched TPP’s video and he was saying it’ll be open in 2 weeks and I rolled my eyes. I’d assume this guy is closer, but who knows maybe they’ll get it up quick

    • Bob K Mertz@lemm.eeOPM
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      1 year ago

      TPP is… Fun. He can be entertaining but it seems like most of the time there’s very little basis for his claims.

      I think this is going to take a while though I will admit that Carowinds has more motivation than most parks to get this up fast because a lot of people will skip the entire park if 325 is closed. Maybe they can fabricate a new piece quickly but 2 weeks is an insane claim

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      1 year ago

      Interestingly they welded steel plates onto the support similar to Goliath which leaves me questioning if they are doing it to run the ride while they fabricate a new support or if they just want to hold everything together to keep stress off of other parts.

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    1 year ago

    Interesting analysis, it does make you wonder why the support was shaped that way at all.

    • Bob K Mertz@lemm.eeOPM
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      1 year ago

      B&M is pretty secretive in their engineering so it’s possible that this guy doesn’t know the internals and those make a big difference