Trouble with set screws!

[A RC Dude]

Thanks guys! and i haven't had any problem for a wile now

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

I attended a class for loctite a few years ago while working at Universal Studios Orlando, and what the company told us then was that their product actually hardenes up under pressure when you apply a tightening force to the hardware it is applied to. It does not dry because of the air around it. Of course it will harden up or cake up over a long period of time, but that is not the purpose of using it. You can even apply it and put the item right back into use, but they suggested that you let it cure for at least an hour before using the item. None of the lictite products is really permanent, but as noted one loctite product is stronger then the previous one as you climb the ladder. We used loctite on everything for putting the rollercoasters back together at "Islands of Adventure". I worked on the Dueling Dragons, The Incredible Hulk, and the Mummy coasters, and without loctite they would have come apart farely easy under the pressure of normal operation.

haha that's awesome! i love the roller coasters in those parks and i'm actually going to be their with a big group of people this coming friday and saturday! should be fun, it's been 2 years since the first and only time i've been their lol

[JERRY2KONE]

Yea I loved that place. As a part of my daily duties when working the third shift I was always happy to ride each and every coaster every morning before the park opened up for the day. It was one of our requirements for checking the sounds of the cars and the track. Once you get used to how everythign worked it was quite easy to hear if anything was out of wack. Not to mention that it was hella fun for me. One of my nightly PM's was to do the "walk through" track inspection of the entire ride, which always included finding at least $30 to $40 in change and bills laying about the ground from the cork screw or one of the other inverted turns. Plus the jewlery, cameras, Oakley sun glasses, and other stuff lost on the ride. Everything personal was turned into lost and found, but after 30 days was turned back over to us if not claimed. Some guys just did not enjoy the rides, but it was always a blast for me. My girl(now my wife) used to call me early in the morning to check my status and I would chat with her while testing the rides. Pretty cool job, and the pay was not bad either. All in all a good company to work for.

[A RC Dude]

haha sweet! sounds like a great job! i'd like to find something similar when i get older (i'm 17 and looking to go into mechanical engineering). i love roller coasters and have ridden all the coasters in Carowinds (decent park on the NC and SC border about an hour away), Boush Guardens in VA, the universal parks in FL, dollywood in tennessee, six flags over georgia, sea world (the one coaster their....rode it 12 times in a single day making poses for the camera of course after a time or 2) and one or 2 other parks that i wasn't hardly old enough to remember. but i've yet to find a coaster too scarry for me not to love! haha

[JERRY2KONE]

The scariest ones are those that you can obviously see have not bee properly maintained. After working at "Islands of Adventure" for 6 years I got to see how well or not so well some parks do their maintenance. Some parks do as little maintenance as possible to save money. I have even seen some parks that do their annual overhauls and use the same hardware to put them back together, which is a definite NO NO. If you see rust of any kind building up anywhere on a vehicle or a track, don't ride the coaster. This is a hard sign/tell that they do not care about keeping the ride safe.

[A RC Dude]

yea, but luckaly i've yet to see anything like that