Furiosity Mk II Fairground Ride
Built by Santiago Plicio in March 2026
This new model was built after Furiosity. I took the decision of dismantle the wheel and change the model to something else or easier. So I dismantled the big rotation unit and also the tilting top unit leaving only the tower and base.
I increased the height of the tower to over 1m and added on top a heavy-duty axle.
At this stage I knew what I wanted and built a large circular plate with eight arms of angle girders to support eight very long arms and cars to the model. These arms will swing at speed and perhaps increase the diameter to well over 1.5m.
Each arm with a car is about 1m long. I needed to fix a flat long plate so I can engage a motor connected to the rotating unit. After all was built I tested and I realised the motor keep cutting off. It was my transformer, so I changed the transformer and the model was great and worked well.
However the very long arms with the attachment to hold them at reduced speed created a problems and I was not happy with the result, so I dismantled all those fittings and reinforced the canopy so it was free of any movement and changed the position of the arms fitting so the very long arms work much better.
At the end it looks a nice and impressive model, which I name Furiosity Mk II as it evolved form the one shown at the West London Meccano Society meeting in March 2026.