When They Overwax The Giant Slide

[gmi3804]

I think some engineering miscalculations are responsible too.

But this was reportedly open for FOUR HOURS before it was shut down. Who’d do this if they saw what was happening?!

 

[Schneewittchen37]

Oh man, I loved the one at King's Dominion in the early 80s. Magic Carpet Slides. But I don't think the guests ever literally flew.....

 

[gmi3804]

Oh man, I loved the one at King's Dominion in the early 80s. Magic Carpet Slides. But I don't think the guests ever literally flew.....

I think that one was engineered correctly.

 

[NannyBeBe]

This reminds me of when I was a kid and we would take a piece of waxed paper with us to the park and put it at the top of the slide, sit on it, and go flying down the slide.

 

[RamblingMad]

Looks fun. This would have totally stayed open in the 80s.

 

[rlk]

Reminds me of Action Park!

 

[fla4fun]

OUCH!

 

[KayMichigan]

Cedar Point used to have a slide like that. It was plastic, not metal. The problem was that, for me at least, it was hard to get enough momentum to get all the way to the bottom so I'd always get stuck on it. They removed the slide sometime in the 1990s, I think.

 

[prairie_girl]

I can’t get over how much it must have hurt to slide down that hot metal with bare skin.

 

[RamblingMad]

I can’t get over how much it must have hurt to slide down that hot metal with bare skin.

That's how playgrounds were in the 80s.

https://www.weareteachers.com/70s-80s-playgrounds/

Loved it.

This is a good one too.

https://clickamericana.com/topics/f...ounds-our-great-grandparents-somehow-survived

We used to have this metal rods that hung from the ceiling that we would climb. Scared me as a kid, but I loved it too.

 

[bcla]

Reminds me of the story I heard about a new ride at the (then) Marriott's Great American in Santa Clara, California as told by a park engineer at a special event for high school science students. He talked about their shuttle loop ride called The Tidal Wave which was made by a Swiss company. The park was testing it before allowing any people to ride on it, but they generally used sandbags to simulate weight. If it worked properly then the bags wouldn't fall out. They asked the manufacturer (whose technical rep was onsite during the installation and testing) if they could load it this much, and he was a confident "absolutely yes". So they did it, and on the first attempt it reached the top of the loop, stalled, and the bags dumped sand on the track, at which point it dropped and then the wheels ground the sand into the track and wheels.

So they're back cleaning this mess up, and where they needed to repack the wheel bearings which are likely contaminated. But nobody told them what grease to use. They used what they had. What they didn't realize was that they spec'ed some really heavy grease and what they used was might lighter. So they started it up, it went through the loop, and then all the way to the top of the shuttle where it knocked off the barrier at the end. Eventually they got it right, but that was a case where it was definitely going too fast.

 

[prairie_girl]

That's how playgrounds were in the 80s.

https://www.weareteachers.com/70s-80s-playgrounds/

Loved it.

This is a good one too.

https://clickamericana.com/topics/f...ounds-our-great-grandparents-somehow-survived

We used to have this metal rods that hung from the ceiling that we would climb. Scared me as a kid, but I loved it too.

As a child of the late 70s I know all too well that slides used to be like that. I also remember the searing pain lol

 

[KayMichigan]

I can’t get over how much it must have hurt to slide down that hot metal with bare skin.

My understanding is that you get into a burlap sack and then go down the slide, so you're not sliding down on your bare skin.

That's how the Cedar Point slide worked.

 

[footballmouse]

 

[luvthatduke]

I haven't been able to listen to the entire song,
so please forgive if NSFW:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...bizarre-corrugated-iron-slide-set-reopen.html