Floating Options

Broccolimoo16 · Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 8 City: Pocatello, Idaho

I was just wondering if there is any other material besides styrafoam and barrels to float a slider? Twisted Evil

sktw8 · Outlaw Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 126

tubes can be used

cojo99 · Newbie Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 36

stirafoam

colefooter · Posted: May 15, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

Broccolimoo16, i think they make like special tubes

Brit Rider · Posted: May 15, 2004 2:46 pm Post subject:

use car tyres filled with motorcycle innertubes, before you pump up the inner tubes screw the tyres tot he bottom of the slider (and cover the screwheads!)

Pretty cheap and stable.

pjdave · Posted: May 16, 2004 8:36 am Post subject:

coolroom panels.

south · Posted: Jun 08, 2004 4:16 pm Post subject:

okay, my mates and i have built a pretty long and big 1/2 rainbow slider (floating)

6m up ramp, 8m flat bar, and the flat bar is probably about 2m above the surface.
unfortunately before we built this huge mofo, we didnt think a lot about floating it.

we have capped off the end of 3 10m long pipes, i figured out they should float about 240kg of weight and the slider itself probably weighs 100kg.

im saying its not going to be stable enough.. anyone have an opinion of this?