this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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So the coaster goes around the corner and the load gets transferred to those supports? Looks like. There’s more than one support on the bend but the video shows that that support is basically not a part of the structure anymore and it is at the apex of the bend. The supports on either side are now having to tolerate different stresses that they may not have been designed for, same for the track. I find it highly unlikely that this was signed off on. “That’s a redundant support, we’ll fix it when we can?”