General Carowinds discussion
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By DavidW
#67195
This might help you make it just a little wider :)
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By FamousAmos
#67196
Okay two things:
1) This area looks like a drainage basin. It also has the potential of being a future fountain?


2) Was this building just brick painted white? or did it have a siding on it like the front of the plantation house?
Also, do any of you have pictures of this structure?


Thanks :)
By FUBAR
#67206
Does anyone hope that the lighting package on the ride will have the ability to color change? like the LED lights that can put out any color using RGB. It would let them change the color of the supports as they are white.
By Capler
#67212
Why does it take a coaster footer 30 days to cure, but only about a week when doing a highrise, parking deck? Also looking at the amount of track left in the parking lot, now we know why a coaster is erected in the order it is. It is because it's fabricated in that same order. They can't work backwards because the track for those sections are not here.
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By FamousAmos
#67213
^^That makes perfect sense. However, they should be able to place track on the bridge footers by Christmas or so. It usually takes about 7 to 10 days for the concrete to cure enough for it to bare weight. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.

[offtopic]Do any of you have pictures (or can lead me to pictures) of the restroom building to the right of the fountain in the old plantation house plaza? Nearest to the Paladium. Thanks.[/offtopic]
By Capler
#67214
FamousAmos wrote:^^That makes perfect sense. However, they should be able to place track on the bridge footers by Christmas or so. It usually takes about 7 to 10 days for the concrete to cure enough for it to bare weight. Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.

[offtopic]Do any of you have pictures (or can lead me to pictures) of the restroom building to the right of the fountain in the old plantation house plaza? Nearest to the Paladium. Thanks.[/offtopic]


Yeah, on a high rise they do about a floor a week, which means it has to support an enormous amount of weight, (more so than a coaster), of the next floor up.
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By DavidW
#67215
we discussed the concrete curing stuff back on page 151. I think after 7 days (the 23rd) we'll see them put steel on those footers. This is what lead to my prediction of those sections getting installed right after the Christmas break.
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By FamousAmos
#67217
Speaking of those footers, the steel I-beams we saw in the parking lot next to Intimidator were indeed for the bridge. Look at camera 1, you'll count six vertical beams.
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