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t-comp-kierz

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For what its worth, a friend of mine works as an amusement park tester, the company he works for does most of the major parks in the UK (alton towers/drayton manor/chessington/blackpool etc) and I would very happily ride on anything he has inspected and passed. Ive been involved with some of the testing that goes on in the workshops at drayton manor and nothing goes unchecked.

For the last ten years Ive spent a lot of time over the summer working on a travelling victorian steam powered gallopers (yarp Im a pikey, small hands, smells of cabbage) and as such Im always very consious of health and safety issues when the public are involved. Being a design engineer when doing proper work Im also involved with HSE on mechanical installation sites.

That said things can and do go wrong, you have to trust the competance of the people in charge of the machinery. I closed air at alton towers a few years ago, I noticed that an allen screw was missing in the loading mechanism (the rams that lift the chairs into the horizontal position) whilst waiting in the queue. Because it obviously didnt affect the operation of the cars I went on the ride then called over the lass who was helping people on and off, her face dropped when I told her about the missing screw and how she should mention it to the controller. Ten minutes later, air was closed for the day :giggle:

Im not actually sure why Ive just dribbled on for so long, the rides at blackpool should be safe though :)

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