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While we were in the process of reskinning our Saturn 6, we discovered a cylindrical object on the drive shaft that is welded to the shaft inside the tower. Knowing that the Hurricane freewheels in order to help perpetuate the bounce, we figured this must do the same thing. We cut it apart & tried it & that is exactly what it is. Only bad thing about every 6 times you start the ride it slips in the wrong direction & jerks the ride. We had to weld it back up until we can spend more time on it. Ever heard of anything like this? Any ideas where I could find one? |
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Would help if you can upload a couple pictures of it --
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Greg, can you find out if that thing came with a Gas motor on it originally? From my understanding, several were produced with Gas motors and this might shed some light on things.
Thanks --
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| I think it was always electric. I used to be able to get a hold of Bill Mulligan, but not any more. Are you familiar with a Hurricane? On it there is a lever you turn that sets the ride into "freewheeling". On the ride you go slower, almost to a stop, when the sweeps are straight out & it zooms very fast when the sweeps are low. The Saturn 6 does the same thing when this clutch works. It acts like a ratchet, so when the ride first starts the clutch forces it to turn, but when it bounces, the slip allows it to maintain the motor speed straight out & freewheel when low. The whole process makes the bouncing easier on the motor, the freewheel speed makes it bounce higher, & it should make it take less maitenence. It has a sealed bearing on both ends, something is broke though. When our mechanic gets back, I hope he'll take it apart & fix it.
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greg! wrote
I think it was always electric. I used to be able to get a hold of Bill Mulligan, but not any more. Are you familiar with a Hurricane? On it there is a lever you turn that sets the ride into "freewheeling". On the ride you go slower, almost to a stop, when the sweeps are straight out & it zooms very fast when the sweeps are low. The Saturn 6 does the same thing when this clutch works. It acts like a ratchet, so when the ride first starts the clutch forces it to turn, but when it bounces, the slip allows it to maintain the motor speed straight out & freewheel when low. The whole process makes the bouncing easier on the motor, the freewheel speed makes it bounce higher, & it should make it take less maitenence. It has a sealed bearing on both ends, something is broke though. When our mechanic gets back, I hope he'll take it apart & fix it.
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The concept makes sense. The reason I asked is because I had a conversation with someone who's rebuilt one or two of those and he said that alot of them came with the gas motors and might have had additional clutches based on that configuration that could be eliminated when converting to an electric drive. I'll keep looking on my end -- sorry not much help so far :)
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