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Does anyone one here have any detailed information on how the yan detachable grip worked? Any information would be fine :)

KZ

Grip had compressed rubber as a spring source. At the time it was felt this might be the answer to all of the problems the manufactures were having with large springs. Springs were substituted for rubber in the redesigned grip. Also jaws were enlarged to capture more than 51% of the haul rope. Note the lack of parts that make the grip (this was a key selling point). Is it me or do Doppelmayrs grips look the same?

Algor and Les Ogalik web sites have the detailed information and pictures. Les Ogalik was YAN's v.p. and main mechanical engineer.

The Salt Lake Tribune has a fairly accurate write-up on CETC's owner and history of the company which owes some of its success to YAN , as Doppelmayr and CTEC were major benifactors of YAN replacement lifts.

http://www.algor.com...ift/skilift.asp
http://www.polxwest.com/Les.htm
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Oct/10262003/Bu...ss/Business.asp

Ryan B

Interesting story about CTEC

Thats all really cool

Thanks Ryan

I think i found one of the rubber sprinds at sierra today. I found a metal container with tons of them.

About how big were these rubber in the redisgned grip?

I have one of the old hsq grips in my room.. (jacked it from the old superstar express from Killington).. ill take pics later

Museum piece... better hang on to it or donate it to orangegondola's chairlift history site :) Definitely take some photos, as we've all drawn up half-remembered schematics from one ride years ago but haven't seen one for a while.

Scroll through this topic, I posted 3 pages from conceptual inputs.

http://www.skilifts....?showtopic=2249

Oops I had forgotten about those, and you just posted them recently.

In the first article it said that the replacement grips worked. If this is true then why aren't there any working anymore

I presume that many resorts felt that the lifts were probably not safe enough after there were other problems with their HSQs. I know that Lake Louise tried to keep Friendly Giant as long as possible until the government would allow them to continue operating it.

I don't remember, did the government make LL take out the Friendly Giant?

No, the resort took it out because it was to costly to run and repair.

I believe that it was posted on here that the government wouldn't renew its operation certificate.

When I talked to one of the heads of mountain ops when I was there in May he said that it was getting to that point but it had not reached it yet. The resort chose to remove it due to rising maintenance costs and impending government forced removal.