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#1 SkiBachelor

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Posted 23 March 2005 - 10:23 PM

Hi everyone, I just posted the Ringer manufacturer page tonight.

Enjoy

http://skilifts.org/...rers_ringer.htm
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Posted 24 March 2005 - 01:10 AM

Yet another piece of historically cool greatness! Nice work.

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Posted 24 March 2005 - 03:16 AM

Great read, Cameron. That split chair is nuts! I was thinking about something not too far off those lines a while ago. What about a seat cushion that can tip forward about 45 degrees to ease offloading? I suppose most people know what to do and don't have problems though, so it would be an unnecessary added mechanical complexity.

I am not sure if the site is under maintenance right now, but I can't seem to load any of the other pages, except the Hall page?

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Posted 24 March 2005 - 09:49 AM

Yea, those pages arn't up yet so that's why you are getting that 404 page. A whie back I had to go through and change a link in the top navigation bar on every page for the site. I had already started making future pages and stuff but never finished them. So when I uploaded all those fixed pages, some pages were uploaded that shouldn't have been, but I didnt think it was that big of a deal since I was giong to complete those pages soon. As you can see, that never happened. This goes for other pages on the site as well.
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Posted 24 March 2005 - 09:27 PM

No worries. :)

I meant to ask, how on earth are the two halves of that split chair actuated? I don't see any room for anything mechanical at all to be hidden away to facilitate the splitting.

Also I can't imagine that would be very rigid at all. Lots of backlash in the seat-pivoting mechanism, that'd make me hella nervous on the way up!

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Posted 25 March 2005 - 03:53 PM

is their any pics of their lifts, and is their a pic of their detachable lift, it sounds very cool
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Posted 25 March 2005 - 06:52 PM

I might have a picture of the Double-Swivel lift that was installed at Terry Peaks. A while back, someone posted a postcard on ebay from there and it showed the lift.
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Posted 04 March 2016 - 07:40 PM

Excellent new Remontees-Mecaniques report from Germany on the last remaining Ringer installation.
http://www.remontees...ebahn-5733.html
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Posted 05 March 2016 - 10:11 AM

Per the article, they're looking to possibly replace it with a gondola in the 2018-2020 timeframe ... :-(

(Amazing that thing is still operational, and in that fantastic a condition)

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Posted 06 March 2016 - 02:39 PM

see my avatar- that's a Ringer chair!
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