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Damn! I hate that I'm all caught up now. No more binging this, but loving every minute!

I came across your channel on Saturday, I've been binge watching, I'm interested in seeing how this project comes out!

I completely accidentally found your channel after finding the chrome plating comparison video. I have always REALLY liked amusement park rides so this channel was a perfect fit for my interests.

I binged watched your ride project videos for the past three weeks. Now I’m all caught up. I aware you have the best carnival ride content on KZfaq since Slothy Vlogs. I could never take on a real ride restoration project like you but I love watching you do it. Please keep up the great work, I really love this!!!

Pete, I'm making a change and you are part of it. My youtube suggestions were doom and gloom from the left and right. I'm done with that and I just want to learn about random things that I've maybe seen for a second, thought about ( ya know, like carnival ride setup and teardown) then dismissed and moved on with my day. My feed will hopefully be all makers, restorers, geeks and random historians. So thank you. Great video and channel.

I THOUGHT that was an ambulance in your driveway, but I convinced myself that it was an RV! And HOLY CRAP, that wood is expensive!

It's exciting to watch the progress on this. This ride is going to be awesome as is the other one. Keep it coming.

I found your channel over the weekend. This is very, very cool!

Excellent work! That's a powerful laser .

Thanksgiving has been bountiful for you. Keep pressing! Keep working! We like it! 5,000 subscribers in a weekend!

Awesome thanks for sharing I love the lighting

I would build an aluminum sub frame and use starboard for the tubs. I also use alot of .050 mill finish aluminum for skinning tubs. You can leave it bare, wrap it, or paint it. It's pretty cheap for a 4x8 sheet.

I really want an old school chaser and lights.

All love!!! That laser cutting is flipping awesome asf!! Love your video updates.

Another great episode! You definitely need to get the ambulance airbrushed out..."PETE RONDEAU SHOWS".........

We call those vampire sockets, due to the pins looking like vanpire teeth etc. they work ok. When you put the wires into the socket. Push the wire on with a screw driver first to get a good connection. Just putting the wire in and screwing down the socket cap won’t be sufficient enough for a good connection.

Looks cold there

I really like this! Super cool!

Flippin’ heck! So much cool stuff in this one. The lights and the “laser” cutting are so satisfying! And I really liked how you put the 360 model of the fitting on the screen while you were working with it. Nice detail!

A benefit with having the edge of the wood burned is that it will be less likely to rot or termites if you don't sand it off and you could char the face of all the wood before painting or staining and it will last way longer the just painting or staining alone.

Green white and purple would look good

On your next Lazer cut add positioning tabs to locate the pieces together

Personally I think if it's a rocket rods ride and you have red, orange and yellow I think the next logical color is white, maybe blue.

We have upgrading some of our older rides with led but I still have a chance carousel with incandescent bulbs change some everyday

The turbo lights will look great in this older ride. LED RBG's. would look good too but too modern.

Great video Pete!. I love MDO it is a fantastic product and will last so much better than anything else you would use.

Red green blue and magenta (purple ) its a carnival ride so it needs to draw atention kids love bright vibrent colors so uhm yea but in the end its youre ride you do you

I know you haven’t chosen how you want to finish the combo vehicles, but it might be cool to have the light colors correspond to each of the vehicles’ main color… there are four of each vehicle, I think? If I misremembered that, forgive me 😅

Came across this channel on accident been watching every video from this ride but can't help but wonder how much longer will the restoration take? It's been over a year correct?

Surprised you didn't try to get a First Responder's 10% discount with that ambulance in the parking lot. :)

Been waiting for a new video 👍

No Blue?

You look familiar to me. Even though you're in Gettysburg. Did you come to this Lowe's often? I was a lumber cashier there for 20 years. I had to stop working due to health issues. But I may have run you through my register near the Pro desk a few times over the years. Ironically I have quite a few videos on my channel inside that Lowe's store as well from having Jim Coppersmith play Santa and Carnival Days in the Spring selling the MDA shamrocks. It's a small world

so for lights on the combo ride, here is a dumb idea... Use clear caps on those fixtures, and put RGB pixel LED's inside, then on the base where the outlet boxes were you can put a small plastic box with a controller and run it off the slip rings (or if you want to avoid them a battery) that way you can either make the colors dance & change or set the colors to where you take the ride, for a school event use school colors, for a christmas event christmas colors etc. given you are going to do "more realistic" paint on the vehicles I think this would be nice... also if it were me the pattern on the decking would have a painted "road" for the vehicles... but with the plastics bars, are you going to paint them a solid color or did you find a bulk supply of that nail chrome?

I like the style of lights you have chosen, but I am not sure your decision to use just three colors is the right way to go. With the 3-channel chaser, and 3 colors of lights, you get an effect where all the red on on, then all the orange, then all the yellow. I think the chase sequence would look better with just one color, or 4 colors. Maybe not too noticeable if you run the chaser fast enough, but I really think it would look cooler with some blues or greens in there.

This is so cool! I wonder, are there any “trailer” type rollercoasters like a lot of the flat rides are?

I probably should have commented this on the earlier video about the lighting but what filament material were those adapters printed out of? Since they're for outdoor use (and I don't know how hot the lights themselves get) I just want to ask if they're printed out of something that will survive this use case like a PETG or a Nylon and not something that'd deform and melt like a PLA would

Wow! All your videos make me want to try something like this! Where do you even find these for sale? It's very cool! Not sure if I could afford it, but about how much is one of these abandoned rides cost??

Do you ever go to BAPS to get abrasives, tape or paint for your rides?

Love the channel, just curious what is your day job?

Mr. Rondeau they forgot the most important part the bulbs lol are you from Pennsylvania? I am I’m from a town called Lebanon Pennsylvania which I’m sure you heard of our bologna if you’re from the area.

You was robbed! That MDO 1/2"x4x8 is $49.98 in Hadley MA

Another great video Pete. I'm so glad you didn't go with modern LED lights. They just don't look right on vintage rides (IMO) We are going to set up the airplane ride tomorrow for Christmas along with my Herschel kiddie car ride. Check your Instagram when you have a chance. Would like to connect with you. Thanks