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neo

going to write a proper introduction post!

hello, my name is neo. i'm a transmasc in my 20's. generally speaking i like machines that move people, amusement rides, shooter games, and various sci fi and sci fi-adjacent media. i'm in between jobs right now, but my background spans aerospace engineering, acting, teaching, and operating amusement rides.

i occasionally draw and shoot 35mm film! (even less often, i write mediocre fanfiction.)

i'm on the fence about talking about my mental issues on new social media pages but you might find me mentioning them down the line.

i'll put my interests in the tags. (hopefully that's considered helpful here, like mastodon, and not spammy like it is on some sites.) happy to be here!


#introduction #35mm #photography #art #aviation #spaceflight #amusement-rides #roller-coasters #transformers #tron #mass-effect #half-life #portal #doom
A bookstore at night on a hill, surrounded by fairy lights.
A marker/black ink drawing of Silverbolt from Transformers. Silverbolt is silver, orange, and red, with black accents, and has large silver wings.
#doom#halflife#masseffect
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Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️‍⚧️

The coaster wheel project is complete (for now)!

The wheel is out of the vinegar and got another good scrub with soap and water before getting dried and oiled a little bit.

Any rust that's visible is flash rust- which formed after treatment while it was still a little wet with water. Pretty hard to avoid any rust.

I'm super, duper, incredibly happy with how it turned out. Even the rust on the grease port has been cleared. Most of the iron oxide (the black dust) was removed in the vinegar soak and with a soapy scrub.

The very last thing I plan to do is to give it a little bit of a polish. But here it is, all cleaned up!

I do wish the smooth coating was more intact but this is the wheel I have to work with unless someone at Holiday World reads this and wants to send me a new one! ;)

If I ever get around to trying to polish this thing up I will definitely share pics of it. Until then, that's it for this restoration. It was a lot of fun and I'm super happy with it. Thanks for coming along with me!I do wish the smooth coating was more intact but this is the wheel I have to work with unless someone at Holiday World reads this and wants to send me a new one! ;)

If I ever get around to trying to polish this thing up I will definitely share pics of it. Until then, that's it for this restoration. It was a lot of fun and I'm super happy with it. Thanks for coming along with me!

#RollerCoasters #HolidayWorld #Restoration

A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black.
A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black. Photo is taken from above showing the hub of the wheel.
A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black. Photo is a closeup of the slot where the axel goes, showing the grease port on the inside.
A photo of my newly restored roller coaster upstop wheel. The hweel is made of iron and is about 8 inches wide. It has a wide hole in the middle where it slips on to the coaster train's axel. There's a tiny bit of flash rust on the item, but largely it's grey and black. Photo is close up on the outside grease port.
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Juliet Merida, Dum Tran Elf 🏳️‍⚧️

Here's the wheel this morning after an overnight in the tank. It got a scrub with the kitchen brush, dried up, and oiled a little. It's still going to go back in the tank later, but damn, I'm happy with the progress.

You can see some of the smooth coating (teflon?) on the road surface of the wheel is still intact. This is why I didn't want to sandblast or brush it. I wanted to preserve as much of that as possible.

#RollerCoasters #HolidayWorld #ThemeParks

An iron wheel about 8 inches wide sitting on my desk. It has some spots of rust on it, but largely looks like it's been cleaned quite a bit. There's maybe 15% rust coverage as opposed to the 100% and then some it had before I started cleaning.
An iron wheel about 8 inches wide sitting on my desk. It has some spots of rust on it, but largely looks like it's been cleaned quite a bit. There's maybe 15% rust coverage as opposed to the 100% and then some it had before I started cleaning.
An iron wheel about 8 inches wide sitting on my desk. It has some spots of rust on it, but largely looks like it's been cleaned quite a bit. There's maybe 15% rust coverage as opposed to the 100% and then some it had before I started cleaning.
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Matt McIrvin

@ericg The one of these I've ridden is Big Bad Wolf, and yes. That wasn't my first roller coaster but it was the one that convinced me that I could love roller coasters.

But I think that, in hindsight, I also miss the one I rode before that, which was Mr. Twister at the original Elitch Gardens. At the time, it was too much for me. But man.

And then... there's Drachen Fire. Kind of a love-hate taste to the memories there.

#rollercoasters
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Once Upon a Coaster

We're looking at the classic and doomed Vekoma SLC model on our new episode that releases next Friday.

Anyone out there still like original SLC rides? Anyone ever like them?? Bueller..??

This episode is fun, especially if you love hating on a coaster model a lot. Join us next week as we look at this much hated rider in a park we've never visited yet on this podcast.

See you soon, it's gonna be a fun one!

#RollerCoasters#coasters#podcast
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Grumpmeister

#introduction

Yo, I'm Grumpmeister; a mobile app developer during the day, but gamer at night!

I've been gaming since as long as I can remember, and mostly enjoy the bad and obscure stuff, like #philipscdi .

While I'm on a hiatus, I'm also known to #speedrun , mostly these "bad" games.

Recently I've picked up the hobby of visiting #themeparks and riding #RollerCoasters

And these passions I'm currently combining with #streaming #PlanetCoaster2

So, nice to meet you all!

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