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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

I thought I remembered something about the pistons putting increased pressure on the aging release mechanism (as they were under pressure pre release, not something that activated on release) causing increased wear and downtime. I might have made that up though.
 
pluk said:
I thought I remembered something about the pistons putting increased pressure on the aging release mechanism (as they were under pressure pre release, not something that activated on release) causing increased wear and downtime. I might have made that up though.
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That would make some sense. Though I'd hope it was designed with that extra force in mind!
 
it looks like it is a hole, but it is meant to be there, there is a plate that goes accross the track (similar to the picture bellow) those holes are also found on Galactica, nemesis, etc and I believe it is to drain water that may collect in that support bracket to prevent rusting (they are circular on galactica, it appears as though some white stuff has collected on the outlet, making it look like 2 holes although you can see it used to be one hole)
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Thanks for clarifying- my eye sight isn’t the best was stood for ten minutes looking in the queue and still couldn’t work it out even with the zoomed in photo.

General thoughts on Thorpe atm - it’s actually a bit run down similar to Alton but gets away with it as it’s not trying to be a theme park
 
flyingguitar said:
it looks like it is a hole, but it is meant to be there, there is a plate that goes accross the track (similar to the picture bellow) those holes are also found on Galactica, nemesis, etc and I believe it is to drain water that may collect in that support bracket to prevent rusting (they are circular on galactica, it appears as though some white stuff has collected on the outlet, making it look like 2 holes although you can see it used to be one hole)
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If it was a hole it wouldn't be a water drain one as it appears to be on the weld? They wouldnt purposely weaken a weld by putting a hole on a weld I wouldnt have thought.
 
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