Ride Downtime Thread 2012

[danielbhoy88uk]

I must say i visited the park on tuesday and had a wonderful day. Every ride was open which was good. The ride staff were out of this world and also got to ride in the drivers cabin on the monorail which also made the day even better for my son.

[mikey_mcl]

TH13TEEN and Air were having intermittent periods of short downtime today!

[DeadJack5]

i remember in the easter that nemesis had broke down for the first time ever for me, but it resumed after 10 minutes, all i could see was the staff sweeping water off the docking bay (near the entrance to the station the moving floor)

[T0M]

I would post this in the Rita topic but I can't seem to find one, anyway, a report over at TPM claims that Rita's launch cable has snapped this morning which will mean that Rita will be down for a while. Fortunately no one was hurt.

[T0M]

Here's a link to a photo just posted as well, I wont embed it as it isn't mine.

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ... 6563_n.jpg

[Boz]

yep, that is definitely a snapped launch cable 
This happens far too much on Intamin accelerator coasters, and one of these days someone is going to get seriously/fatally injured.
I know for a fact that it has happened several times on stealth. The first time was in fact even in it's first season, when it went took out a number of brake fins, one of which ended up in the Rumba Rapids trough.

[T0M]

Someone did get injured in 2009 on Xcelerator at Knotts Berry Farm when the cable snapped, it wasn't fatal but was quite a serious laceration to a 12 year olds leg. If this keeps happening then surely Intamin need to start using stronger cables or have them replaced more frequently.

[Rob]

Sources indicate that it won't be out of action for long. Days rather then weeks if no other damage has been done.

[bensaund]

I hope it is up and running soon as those poor people who will be queuing for long on other rides

[HFantasma]

My ride tech knowledge isn't good but shouldn't they have some sort of protection to stop people getting hurt if this happens?

[BarryD]

Was gutted this was closed today, they closed off the whole Dark Forest for a while so there was no Thirteeen either for a while. Although, to be honest, the Q's were not too bad on the other rides, best they have been for a while. The longest I waited for anything was 10 mins for Air. Doubt this will be the same story next week when I go though!

[Rob]

There is a metal protection strip that runs under the cable.

[Simps100]

yep, that is definitely a snapped launch cable 
This happens far too much on Intamin accelerator coasters, and one of these days someone is going to get seriously/fatally injured.
I know for a fact that it has happened several times on stealth. The first time was in fact even in it's first season, when it went took out a number of brake fins, one of which ended up in the Rumba Rapids trough.

I think your confusing the more major issue on stealth with a cable snap.

The issue on stealth was far more serious than just a cable snap, infact i think the cable was fine after it was the metal track the cable runs through which was replaced.

[Boz]

not likely, i was operating inferno at the time, and it was confirmed by no less than 5 sources. 2 of our team leaders, an engineer buddy of mine, the rumba op and finally the stealth op, whom i was also pretty good friends with
however this was 6 years ago so you could be correct, but this is as i remember it.

[Simps100]

Unless were talking about a different incident? Im pretty sure the one in July which kept it closed for a good couple of months wasnt just a simple cable snap.

[Boz]

could be that my memory is combining 2 separate incidents, cause the cable definitely snapped in sept/oct so you might be right 

[MattsDesigns]

yep, that is definitely a snapped launch cable 
This happens far too much on Intamin accelerator coasters, and one of these days someone is going to get seriously/fatally injured.
I know for a fact that it has happened several times on stealth. The first time was in fact even in it's first season, when it went took out a number of brake fins, one of which ended up in the Rumba Rapids trough.

I think your confusing the more major issue on stealth with a cable snap.

The issue on stealth was far more serious than just a cable snap, infact i think the cable was fine after it was the metal track the cable runs through which was replaced.

Cable snap also happened at Knots Berry - I hate to cast aspersion towards the industry I love but that's what happened.

[Themeparksandy1981]

I guess the cable is monitored by computers all the time and when it gets to it's weakest point allowed they some how snap the cable so it can be replaced.

[Alex Tyler]

I've been told by a member of staff that I was only 4 days away from being replaced.

[Alex Tyler]

I can't see the edit button, Rita has now re-opened.