A quick favour of someone (US Friends?) if I may ask, as I'm
VERY interested in seeing this video as part of my engineering curiosity if nothing else...
If ye saw the video, would ye mind having a look in thy browser cache and seeing if ye can obtain the video file from there? It shouldn't be too difficult to find if it's there, and I'll provide brief instructions below:
- Internet Explorer users:
Open the "My documents" folder, show the address bar if it's hidden, then enter (Or cut/paste) %homepath%\Locals~1\Tempor~1 [Return] into the address bar to open thy Internet Explorer cache folder, and arrange files by date or type...Whichever is easier for ye to use to find the file. Once ye've found the file, copy that into a more convenient folder somewhere in thy documents (Explorer may warn about this, but accept the copy and run an AV scan over the file once it's copied) for uploading.
. - Mozilla Firefox users:
Ye can use a similar procedure to that for IE users above, but in thy case the file system address to use is %homepath%\Locals~1\Applic~1\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. Once there, continue navigating into thy profile folder (It'll be [Random code].default, then Cache) and arrange files by size, as Firefox just saves random file names with no extensions.
In either case, the right file should have an .FLV extension for IE users, which will come up as an "Unknown" file type in most Windows installations. Firefox users will see a list of files with random names, but - At a
very rough guess - The file size should work out to about 2-4Mb a minute...So a three minute video would be about 6-12Mb in size, although this may vary.
For more advanced users with a hex editor to hand: Valid FLV files should have "FLV" (0x46 4C 56) as the first three bytes.
Anyhow...Once ye've found any files that
might be the right one, please copy them somewhere into thy "My documents" or any other convenient folder to make sure they don't get lost when thy browser next has a cache cleanup.
Once ye have those file(s) to hand (Or any files that
might be the one I'm looking for) please upload them to some form of file sending service -
Windows Live SkyDrive would be ideal for this, or failing that
YouSendIt should be fine. Once ye've done that, please PM me the URL(s) so that I can download and check them out!
If anyone can dig those video files out, then I'd be most greatful. It'd be a good case study of metal fatigue in steel cables, and show just how much strain the parts on Intamin lunched coasters are subjected to during routine operation!
