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[Peter]

Leitner-Poma terminals seem to be very prefabricated in large sections, unlike the DoppelmayrCTEC lifts. Here are the major parts.

First the masts are installed into the foundations with cross beams.

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Then come the side tire banks, which are in one huge section for each side.

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After that the turnaround is added on the end.

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Then the drive and bullwheel are installed, and the roof and windows are installed.

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almost done
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Finished!

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This system seems better and easier than having a lot of smaller parts. All of the DoppelmayrCTEC terminal skins are installed piece by piece on site.

This post has been edited by Skier: 05 July 2006 - 09:19 PM

[SkiBachelor]

Well, Garaventa CTEC's Stealth 2 and 3 terminals were built similar to Leitner-Poma's. The new UNI-G and UNI-GS appear to be a hassel to put together, but they are also a lot more complex too. The terminals have the ability to park the carriers in the terminals, run backwards, etc.

[ceo]

I saw the base terminal of the new Garaventa-CTEC Peabody Express quad in Cannon's parking lot before they put it up; it was in similar sections and indeed still shrink-wrapped. I'm sure all the manufacturers would prefer to do as much assembly as possible in the factory; QA is easier that way.

[vons]

Doppelmayr Ctec terminals are not hard to assemble. The unie Gs-s terminals arrive on site as four preassembled conveyor pieces, six sections if the -M length. These four sections include two strait sections that have grip actuator rails and pto & deflection sheaves attached and two straight into contour sections think J shaped. These four sections bolt onto the runway beams and structural cross members. Other than the carriage most of the lift can be assembled with a boom truck. The Poma design is nice though, I think it takes them about a day to assemble in the field a D-Ctec uni-g takes about a week if everything is on site.

Note I wrote uni-gs-s if you look in recent lift construction photo thread you will see a uni-gs-m note how the sections bolt together this is how D-ctec offers different length terminals in the same model

[skiersage]

ceo, on Jul 7 2006, 03:56 PM, said:

I'm sure all the manufacturers would prefer to do as much assembly as possible in the factory; QA is easier that way.

Parking lot fabricator Lift Engineering might beg to differ...