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Build Your Own Roller Coaster

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-not-to-tell-your-life-insurance-company dept.

Usquebaugh submitted this link to a guy who built his own roller coaster. The guy builds grain elevators for a living and - let me take a wild, city-slicker guess - they probably use some sort of rail system for transporting grain, so.... Update: 03/14 14:29 GMT by M : We overran the bandwidth limit on his webpage - sorry buddy! From the comments below I see a mirror and another mirror.

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  1. Re:Elaborate HOAX! No way to complete last loop! by Raven_Rider · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ummmm...first off I'm the guy you all have slashdotted. Secondly I saw it go through the entire circuit several times. It's a 20 foot drop followed by a 10 foor loop followed by a small hill that's about 5 feet high then a downward helix to the lift. It works. I'm a coaster enthusiast and I've built several coasters using coaster design programs (No Limits is the most realistic - www.nolimitscoaster.com) and I built an exact replica of it and it worked there as well. This is not a hoax! Paul B. Drabek Raven_Rider@negative-g.net