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[Andy1962]

Andy1962, on 19 April 2016 - 07:19 PM, said:

So how many motors for tires were in EACH Terminal.

So I am not being any kind of armchair quartback. I recognize that YAN liked to do a lot of things differently. I am also aware that YAN taught the industry a lot about good engineering, things like tower spacing for example, that towers could be a lot further apart than maybe the industry had considered before. (Yes I know YAN bent a few rules that maybe should not have been tested ( installed YAN lifts were sometimes called engineering experiments) so I am not judging, when I ask the question again, How many motors did it take to power these tires in the photo shown and get the chairs around the terminal. Second question: did both terminals, look the same, ie same number of motors or was one terminal different setup? if so why?

[Conrad]

Andy1962, on 21 April 2016 - 01:05 PM, said:

I am also aware that YAN taught the industry a lot about good engineering, things like tower spacing for example, that towers could be a lot further apart than maybe the industry had considered before.

Perhaps taught some companies, but some of the old GMD Mueller doubles around New England have very far apart tower spacing. Some Borvigs as well.

[ss20]

Those are beautiful sheaves.

[Lift Dinosaur]

Andy1962, on 21 April 2016 - 01:05 PM, said:

when I ask the question again, How many motors did it take to power these tires in the photo shown and get the chairs around the terminal.
Second question: did both terminals, look the same, ie same number of motors or was one terminal different setup? if so why?

1) Looking at the photo of the 'Loading Area' it looks like there may have been 32-36 tires with motors in the turn around.
2) Don't know. I'm not sure where this system did it's 'Spacing'.

Dino

This post has been edited by Lift Dinosaur: 23 April 2016 - 04:43 PM

[2milehi]

I count 12-13 tires in half of the contour, so maybe 26?