Show threadJuliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 1, 2025
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
Show threadJuliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 27, 2025
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
Juliet (Ryel), Rollerskating Elf 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 25, 2025
Next up for the electrolysis tank: This roller coaster upstop wheel from Holiday World's The Raven that I won at a charity auction.

My mom decided I didn't want it anymore (???) and threw it in the drainage ditch across from her house (!!!) where I had to fish it out all rusted.

#RollerCoasters #HolidayWorld #RustRemoval
VineturJan 28, 2025
Huelva seduce a los turistas irlandeses en la Feria Holiday World de Dublín https://www.vinetur.com/2025012884238/huelva-seduce-a-los-turistas-irlandeses-en-la-feria-holiday-world-de-dublin.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Huelva #Turismo #HolidayWorld #Dublín #TuristasIrlandeses
Huelva seduce a los turistas irlandeses en la Feria Holiday World de Dublín

La promoción se llevó a cabo con motivo de la Feria de Turismo Holiday World, celebrada en Dublín entre los días 24 y 26 de enero

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Manuel AltherrJan 28, 2024
Kurztrip in den Süden, der Kälte entfliehen. Und dabei noch ein paar tolle Fotos machen. Wie heute das #Riesenrad von #Holidayworld in #Maspalomas, #GranCanaria
WestonAug 20, 2023
Hit up #HolidayWorld with the family to cap summer.
ThemePark-Central.deAug 6, 2023

Holiday World wird 2024 seine erste Familien-Achterbahn namens „Good Gravy“ eröffnen. Wie bei einem Thanksgiving Dinner wird die Achterbahn für jedermann interessant sein. Was dich bei „Good Gravy” erwarten wird, erfährst du in diesem Artikel.

🇩🇪 https://www.themepark-central.de/holiday-world-good-gravy/
🇺🇸 https://tpcr.de/cd

📷 (c) Holiday World

#Freizeitparks #ThemeParks #AmusementParks #Leisure #Fun #ThemedEntertainment #ThemedAttractions #IAAPA #VekomaRides #HolidayWorld #Gravy

Good Gravy - Die neue Familien-Achterbahn in Holiday World

Holiday World wird 2024 seine erste Familien-Achterbahn namens „Good Gravy“ eröffnen. Wie bei einem Thanksgiving Dinner wird die Achterbahn für jedermann

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Bob K MertzAug 1, 2023

I don't use Reddit much anymore but I do lurk to watch the hilarity of certain things.... This comment nails today's #RollerCoaster announcements.

#CedarPoint took an amazing ride, made it worse (but still probably decent) and then completely destroyed everything by maybe the worst name in history, Top Thrill 2

On the other hand #HolidayWorld likely crushed a major coaster park with a family coaster announcement.

I, for one, welcome our new independent park overlords.

#AmusementParks

TheNurseIsInJun 25, 2023
Spent the entire day at #HolidayWorld in #SantaClaus, Indiana. Gotta say it was pretty nice. Free parking, free sunscreen, free soda and water. One of the better water parks I've ever visited, too!