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We Don't Need No Stinkin' NDT
Started by liftmech, May 30 2004 04:49 AM
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Posted 30 May 2004 - 04:49 AM
Sometimes you take the grip apart and inspect it under blacklight. Sometimes the problem is obvious...
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Posted 30 May 2004 - 04:54 AM
But wait- there's more (cracked jaw, that is).
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Posted 30 May 2004 - 04:56 AM
It keeps going, and going, and going...
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Posted 02 June 2004 - 03:28 PM
That is crazy, if they actually took that from a chair people were riding,
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Posted 03 June 2004 - 03:43 AM
No-one would have died, if that's what you're thinking. Notice the crack is only on the 'ear' of the jaw; the meat of the jaw would have remained to provide grip force on the rope. It's just that the crack is very big... This is why we inspect grips.
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Posted 04 June 2004 - 03:31 AM
Yup, and turn the dead jaw into a nifty paperweight. You can actually just change out the mobile jaw (the broken part seen here) on these grips without having to change the entire grip, but we have around 70 spares left from Triple-E lift to use, so we just put those on lock, stock, and barrel.
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Posted 03 July 2004 - 09:08 AM
In the spirit of Mel Brooks I see. :D
So how old was that grip anyway and how long do those grips ussually last?
So how old was that grip anyway and how long do those grips ussually last?
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Posted 06 July 2004 - 06:42 AM
iceberg210, on Jul 3 2004, 09:08 AM, said:
In the spirit of Mel Brooks I see. :D
So how old was that grip anyway and how long do those grips ussually last?
So how old was that grip anyway and how long do those grips ussually last?
That grip was either an '82, '83, or '84, depending upon whether it came from R, S, or triple-E. So it's barely twenty years old, but that could have been a freak crack.
You wouldn't ever ride a lift with a cracked grip- that's why we do summer maintenance.
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