Columbus' Second Coaster!

Thank You Everyone for your suggestions and support. But I have decided to go ahead with the plan

The plan as it stands with your wheels, that track and all the fixins? Nice knowin ya.

Seriously, though, test it with a dead weight of at least twice your weight at least a dozen times before you get on it. If it has ANY damage, then you're just asking for serious injury by riding it. Also PLEASE have someone who knows what they are doing look over your structure before you do any testing (and get a reaction different from the one you got here.) We're not out to be kill-joys, but nothing kills a good project like a broken bone. As drawn here, nothing is strong enough. Not the track, not the wheels, not the car. If you encounter any laterals the guide wheels and the 2x4 they are on are simply going to fall off, and PVC is flexible enough that your road wheels will slip off the track. The track itself is grossly undersized. I'm not saying that you will get hurt. I am saying that you're taking really big risks for basically no reason. its not even that there's discussion here on whether your design will work. Its pretty much the consensus that as shown here, your project is dangerous. Why not redesign now instead of after the thing breaks, and maybe hurts someone? If it breaks or is unridable, have you really saved any money?

To think there was one of those Bailey PVC coatsers in North Myrtle all the years I went down there...And I never knew it was there! Thank God for RCDB.

But my question is, its listed as a steel coaster, but since support structure does not determine what type of coaster it is, would the origional PVC rails make them a Plastic Coaster?;)

So since you are going ahead with this plan, do you have a layout you would like to share with the class? I’m extremely interested in the layout of this coaster with the current car design. I’m sure that I’m not the only engineer here interested in seeing the layout.

Why Is Everyone Here freakin out! Seriously The layout is about as basic as it can be. The ride begins at the top of my hill in my back yard. And goes down a 4 foot hill and then pulls up to 5 feet. Its that simple no laterals and few verticals. The track has been able to support me and my friend with no problem and I have redesigned the the Wheel assembly since that picture. Thankyou For your Opinions.

John

When you talk about building a coaster, most of us would assume that you would be building a complete circuit. We would hate to see anyone injured, maimed or killed while attempting to build a coaster in his/her back yard. At least that’s my statement. Coasterbuzz is about Love, not Hate.

I think we are all are just concerned with a fellow Coasterbuzzer’s well being.