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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:Homemade roller coasters by doorbot.com · · Score: 5, Interesting

    CHeck out Lugnet.com .Someone recently just made an all-Lego roller coaster, using monorail(or is it train?) parts and it does everything

    Perhaps this is the link you were referring to.

  2. Maintenance by Arethan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Somehow I don't see this as being safe. Not because of the materials used for construction, but simply because a few winters of negligence will make this sucker rust right through. If I was this guy's neightbor, I'd probably ride this thing a few times, but only during the first few weeks, and definitely not after a year.

    The big difference between his ride and coaster parks that make the parks safer? They have mandatory ride inspections every morning before opening. Plus I believe they are also required to do a full inch-by-inch examination at least once a year. Probably before opening in the spring.

  3. One more victim by FakePlasticDubya · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Another one bites the dust from the Slashdot effect...

    Perhaps /. could come up with some sort of caching system so the sites that are overwhemed could be accessed at least in the form they were in when it was posted... however there are copyright issues with that im sure...

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  4. Bandwith Exceeded by nofx_3 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well I guess this is a pretty popular topic, I really wish I could have done something like this. Anyway I hope someone mirrored it becuase as I was looking through the monthly bandwith was apperently exceeded. Guess they got some serious slashdot effect.

    I've seen something like this before only not as advance, there was just a single drop and turn of the side of a building, but it was even more shoddily built. These crazy guys were dropping down it in a little in box with wheels and it ended by crashing into hay barrels. Hydrolic brakes would be nice :)

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  5. different weight by seanadams.com · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One thing I was wondering about this - how heavy is the cart? It looks like 75% of the weight is the passenger. In larger coasters, you have an enormous amount of steel in the vehicle, so the number/size of passengers doesn't make much difference.

    This guy has carefully designed the coaster so that you have just enough momentum to reach the bottom of the lift and hook on to the chain, so you don't have to ever get off and push.

    I would think that if (god forbid) a small child were to ride, the difference in friction and wind resistance would leave him with quite a bit of velocity still at the end of the ride. If the vehicle were heavier, it wouldn't make much difference right?

  6. How to build your own (simulated) roller coaster. by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First -

    Download Scream Machines (http://screammachinesgame.com) or No Limits (You have to buy it, http://nolimitscoaster.com)

    Then visit my site, and find over 2000 coasters created by other people.

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  7. Re:Over his limit by Kintanon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You aren't missing anything. The site is TERRIBLE. It's a 3 pictures on a HORRIBLE background that hurts my eyes. Oh, and incidentally, there were 972 people on his counter when I saw the story, and there were no comments for it yet. I wonder how many hits he has now? >:)

    Kintanon

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  8. Should just ask for hosting by gad_zuki! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who knows what deal you have with your ISP about over the top charges, you're much better off just asking someone to host it as its much easier to hand over bandwidth than cash, at least for me. It seems a bit disingenuous to ask for money instead of bandwidth.

    Well, I'm really interested in seeing where this goes. Will slashdotters pay up? Can the slashdot effect work in reverse?

    I'm also interested if anyone has ever attempted legal action for slashdot-like effects. Its bound to come up.

    1. Re:Should just ask for hosting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
      Distributed HTTP - done right - could take care of the /. problem once and for all.

      The problem is that there isn't a critical mass of people using a "p2p" app that is capable of doing this transparently -- yet.

      slashdot could bootstrap the process though; they could urlencode the site's link that is about to slashdotted for which only the "p2p app" (a temporary web cache basically) can decode. Distributed, decentralized content... like freenet, but not so nearly as lame.

  9. Re:guns... by frunch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Right you are... the two main beers in Australia are XXXX and vic bitters. Though in truth, Fosters is probably a better tasting beer than both of them. XXXX and Vic Bitters are the rough Australian analogs of Bud and Schlitz.