Ride fail, hitch fail, chain fail, what failed???

Not sure what happened here but take a look at this chain and hitch failure.
Check out the video I mention on a model that's in much better shape.
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[@micoasters]

Can’t wait for this clip to end up on the “top 18 most deadly roller coaster rides” videos!

[@MrMakoFL]

These adults and kids experienced their first rollback. They’ll appreciate it the day they ride TT2, Kingda Ka, or Xcelerator 😝

[@ryantheridemechanic]

Haha! That’s a rough rollback!

[@MrMakoFL]

@@ryantheridemechanic if I were on that coaster, I’d woo hoo the whole way down and scream ‘ROLLBACK’. I’d get looks but it was worth it 😂

[@ryantheridemechanic]

@@MrMakoFL get a plaque that says “my first carni-rollback”

[@MythicHellebore]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dindog22]

so much for the anti roll back. I got a kick out of all the surprised Pikachou faces after the chain broke

[@frisco557]

Not related to the failure, but all the restraints also seem to be up.

[@intamin.enthusiast]

Think they just have a grab bar and maybe a seatbelt

[@NewEnglandModz]

I think we all know the real cause of the accident... someone leaned on the dang air gates

[@ryantheridemechanic]

😄

[@Colaholiker]

Looking at the sign on the coaster, I first thought it may be Cyrillic (that mirror image R is a letter there), but at a second look revealed that it is mirrored. The signs seem to be in Spanish. Now Spain, being part of the EU, has regulations for fairground rides which are comparable to what I am used to here in Germany (with some exceptions like the infamous stand-up version of the Rainbow), but this certainly doesn't look like it. So my guess is that it must have happened somewhere south of the US. This ride may not even be made by any manufacturer that we ever heard of, but welded together in someone's backyard. Years ago, I watched a documentary about a small traveling carnival somewhere in South America, and they showed that their Pirate Ship ride was also just made by someone who happened to own an arc welder.

[@ryantheridemechanic]

2 things 1: yea could be home made 2: There was a STAND UP RAINBOW?!?! I’d love to see that one!

[@Colaholiker]

@@ryantheridemechanic I'll try to find more information on that ride, and there's also swinging ships with stand-up cages. Not sure if there's one in Spain, but I rode one in Italy. Tons of fun!

[@Scjheinen]

Oh god, these are the type of incident you don't want to see out there. This must be a maintenance issue, my guess is that the chain broke and the jolt of stopping either broke or pulled loose the coupling. The coupling might have been poorly secured (to big of a bore/bush perhaps)? I think I see a safety cable come loose when the hitch breaks. Man these guys sure look they have no idea what they are doing, but context may be missing here.

[@ArtBarn591]

Hear that noise…… that’s metal eating itself!! Lol

[@djsinkaz]

What are little (or big) things that you notice when attending a park as a guest that indicate or suggest whether a ride is well maintained or not? Might be a good video subject😉

[@ryantheridemechanic]

Done. 10 things mechanics do when visiting other parks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJDSk5mLiLucsJIsi=antRdzHPnnqDORX5

[@djsinkaz]

@@ryantheridemechanic 🥎

[@wdavem]

At about 1:46 where you begin to run the footage slowly, there's a little tiny puff of smoke or rust or dust that appears from just below the bottom part of the hitch and quickly spreads out to the left in a few frames. I'm just guessing something percussive happened, or something broke under tension. This is before the hitch let go. Could that be the chain breaking? Progressive hitch failure. (r maybe it's nothing). I'm no ride mechanic but I know that sometimes those little ghosts wreck everything.

[@ryantheridemechanic]

Could be. I do know when chains do break they get super hot where the failure is as it’s getting ripped apart. No real way to tell without the after knowledge of what exactly happened. But for a traveling ride I don’t think anyone would ever see it. That little thing you’re talking about, I saw it but had no idea what it is, smoke, could be grease or dirt fling off, maybe a cable or rope?

[@smokkin1]

The most disturbing thing I saw in this video was the mouse pointer being backwards.

[@ryantheridemechanic]

Ha! Didnt realize the way I set it up that I would be facing the wrong way haha. So I mirrored the video to make it look correct. Well …. Better at least.

[@garychlastawa8277]

Familiar with a Miler kiddie coaster, it has an anti rollback on 3 of the 6 cars.

[@ryantheridemechanic]

Yea, Zamperla family coasters have 2 arb’s coach 2 and 4 I believe.

[@markvolpe2305]

Do these kids rollercoasters not have an anti-rollback system in place? Also, I remember years ago when an Afterburner type ride had a massive accident (not the one that happened at the Ohio state fair) that was overseas, it turned out it was made from an unheard of manufacturer and I remember KMG made a statement that the ride in question had nothing to do with them.

[@ryantheridemechanic]

It looks like the majority of these rides do not have anti rollbacks.

[@JEdwardBanasikJr]

NDT? Spray paint will hide the cracks just fine. And add some pool noodles for safety. 🤪

[@ryantheridemechanic]

You can also use caulking to imitate a weld. Some manufacturers do this to cover bad welds.

[@NewEnglandModz]

Not related to the video, but had a question… I’ve seen videos of Expedition Everest operating without the cosmetic damaged track piece at the end of the lift hill before it goes backwards. Is there anything physically stopping a train from being propelled completely off the track if for whatever reason the booster wheels propelling it up didn’t stop? Same question for rides like Gringots at Universal in Florida where the track abruptly ends, tips down, locks into another piece of track, and releases the train. I imagine that a ride that is designed to stop a train from driving off a track is designed with a non-friction means of stopping the train. Like a physical barrier that comes in the way of the train proceeding rather than pinch breaks or drive tires. And if so, do rides that use high speed switch tracks, like Hagrid’s Motorbikes, have something that would prevent the train from careening off if the track switch failed? I know the LSMs would slow the train down to a stop before the switch, but in the event the locking mechanism that holds the track in place deactauated due to some PLC error (like a rogue solar flare that switches a bit), and the track started to shift while the train was only a few feet away from it, there wouldn’t be enough time to slow it to a stop if it was at speed.

[@ryantheridemechanic]

It’s a complicated answer but all track openings (end of track) have stops of some sort. Sometimes they are hidden (upstop track stop) others are guarded by controls and failsafes. It would be best to do a video on this. Would you be ok if I used you comment directly? I could summarize or wipe the user name out if needed.

[@NewEnglandModz]

⁠​⁠@@ryantheridemechanicA video would be awesome! And you can use my comment directly with my name, or you can hide my name. It doesn’t matter to me. Thanks!

[@Hasse-swe]

There was a chainbreake on Lisebergbanan at my home park Liseberg in Gothenburg, Sweden. I did not se it, but i was in the park. Lisebergbanan is a schwarzkopf. Same model as Jetline at Gröna Lund that deraild summer 2023. The anti rollback faild as well cause of a designflaw i think. But they installed a "standard" antirollback after and it is still rundning and very popular coaster. I think there was a chainbreake on Gatekeeper at Cedar Point 2-3 years ago. Those are The 2 chainbreake i know about. But should not a anti rollback cache The train on the coaster in this video? Should not all cars haver anti rollback?

[@ryantheridemechanic]

Should!, but as far as I can tell, these older models had no anti-rollback units. Probably because they said it’s a small loft and no train to hit behind it.

[@Hasse-swe]

@@ryantheridemechanic wow. Crazy that some rides are this unsafe.

[@Colaholiker]

Technically, Lisebergbanan (which is an awesome coaster btw) is a Zierer coaster, not a Schwarzkopf. The Schwarzkopf company was already bankrupt by the time this ride was built. But Anton Schwarzkopf worked for Zierer at that time, so it shares a lot of the visual appeal. Same goes for Jetline. It is said that Lisebergbanan was Anton's favorite out of all the coasters he was involved in.

[@joeyhu0715]

Before finishing the whole video, let me guess what's happened in the first clip: So there's something happened to the chain lift power, causing the train stop. However, the "anti rollback" thing only installed on the first car, causing the heavy jolt to the whole train while the first train latching on the anti rollback gears. Therefore, the entire train (except the first car) disconnected and rollback all the way to the station... (Just purely guess)~

[@ryantheridemechanic]

That’s a good guess!

[@michaezell4607]

Shouldn't there be anti rollback ratchets on each individual car?

[@joeyhu0715]

@@michaezell4607 Based on that video, I guess it’s sort of “carnival ride”? I think that lots of carnival rides aren’t designed properly or even not passed some safety standards tho🤔💭 (If I’m wrong please correct me)

[@joeyhu0715]

@@michaezell4607As you can see, an example of how carnival rides’ are… kzbin.infoC7w8iDozxtI?si=armVOQi2I7QDYTV6

[@ryantheridemechanic]

@@michaezell4607 most coaster only have 1 or 2 anti-rollbacks. But these coasters (this type, has no ARB. Not needed because the lift is small and there no train. Plus in the mid 1970s it was the normal.

[@MythicHellebore]

That's why I don't ride fair rides or anything that looks like one!!!!

[@dadude1425]

Maybe this isn't fair, but I personally just don't have as much trust in traveling rides as I do permanent rides. I don't know if you could get a whole video out of it, but I'd love to learn more about how these traveling rides are taken care of so I know if my distrust is actually warranted or not lol

[@ryantheridemechanic]

Warranted…. For sure. That is a good subject I’ve never really expanded on. I always tell people. Go to a carnival for greasy food and getting ripped off on midway games. Dont ride anything.

[@MrMakoFL]

I know here in the states, they do testing and refurbishment in the off-season at winter quarters and most of those are here in FL. FL has very strict inspections for traveling rides where some states don’t.

[@dadude1425]

Copy that! Good to know I'm not paranoid for no reason

[@MrMakoFL]

@@ryantheridemechanic I have ridden the craziest carnival rides in my past one being a Soriani & Moser Extasy (Energy Storm) same ride located at Weiner Prater. Only incident I experienced was on a Mack Super Himalaya decades ago but shockingly enough, I have too much trust in mobile rides.

[@ryantheridemechanic]

@@MrMakoFL good to know. FYI for everyone, California, the inspectors that inspect the permanent parks and rides also inspect the traveling rides. *but not every time* the company has an annual very that California has to renew. In-between those inspections, nothing.

[@MrMakoFL]

Looks like a knock off Zamperla, Wisdom, or SBF/Visa

[@ryantheridemechanic]

It seems to be a clone of something.