I've recently decided I want to make a roller coaster simulator put on a VR headset and it would spin to the direction of coaster. I've done everything except gotten the seat. I have looked almost everywhere online and I cant find anything so if you any suggestions to find a old over the shoulder restraints seat please tell me.
Dutchman said:
.... items like this are scrapped and cut up so that there is no way that they can be used again in any form. It's a liability insurance issue.
Has nothing to do with liability. Parks throw stuff like that away because once it's done being used it's just junk to them. Unless you are Busch Gardens then you just give it away.
-Chris
I spent nearly forty years in the business, any kind of safety restraint system from a seat belt to OSTR's when no longer safe to use must be made unusable, or outright destroyed. This is from park's safety dept, state inspectors and insurance underwriters. Now I don't doubt that there are operations out there that just send this stuff to the dump, but that's not what they are supposed to do.
Unless you are Busch Gardens then you just give it away.
Damn, seeing as the useless Big Bad Wolf car went for $8,200, I guess my dreams of driving a motorized log flume boat down the street are going to have to wait a little longer.
Dutchman said:
I spent nearly forty years in the business, any kind of safety restraint system from a seat belt to OSTR's when no longer safe to use must be made unusable, or outright destroyed.
Well I haven't spent 40 years in the business, only 20, but from working at small parks up to parks like Cedar Point I have never heard of anyone actually doing what you suggest with common parts like lapbars, wheels, anti-rollbacks, etc. Most are sent to the dumpster, sit in the corner of a warehouse, or are given away. Hell, a lot of parks use the parts you speak of as gifts at coaster events! Even seen parts used as props in Halloween events. They are pretty easy to come by and not even in the backdoor, shady way. Guess it's been a different experience for you at the parks you worked at which is good really but it certainly hasn't been the norm for everyone I know. I could have a used lapbar tomorrow if I wanted one...lol
-Chris
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