a fairground life (oh,what another day!)

Arrived early this morning to check out another suspected ball race failure. After 3 hrs we had inspected all races and they were fine. So far so good. However when we opened at noon the ride wouldn't go! We re-traced all the obvious steps but to no avail. Just out of pure luck the previous owner from London was in the secc to help his brother pack up tonight with another ride. He pointed out a 'rectifier' that they had had problems with on another ride (not the dz). So we managed to borrow a replacement rectifier from the ghost train as they use them. Sure enough with the new rectifier fitted, a suspect fuse jiggled and a 30v ,1 watt bulb replaced the ride finally worked. So we though to try our old rectifier again in case it wasn't the problem in the first instance. NO GO, so we refit the borrowed one again, the wrong way around and blew it sky high along with two fuses. Cap in hand we borrow another rectifier from the ghost train and carefully put it on. Yippee! 4 hours late but we are finally open. 

Thank you to everyone who helped out, especially IS who had experience from owning this exact type ride until earlier this summer. 

Only a few hours to go then we will be pulling down. Hope to be out of here before 1am all going well.