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Started by Emax, Jan 09 2007 10:49 AM

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#21 liftsuper

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Posted 15 January 2007 - 05:40 PM

View PostEmax, on Jan 14 2007, 08:16 PM, said:

Nice location!

thanks Emax regrettably it does not look much whiter right now. sustained period of cold is coming in tonight maybe I can have a fourth lift by the weekend. We have bombed on Christmas week and Martin Luther weekend.

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Posted 15 January 2007 - 07:44 PM

View Postlastchair_44, on Jan 15 2007, 06:36 PM, said:

I know this is off topic...but you wouldn't happen to have any pictures of the test lift would you?
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I think I have some photos of the test lift and some of us working on it. I will look around and see what I can find.

#23 Peter

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Posted 15 January 2007 - 08:23 PM

Can you explain some of the stuff this test lift was used for? When was it built, what model? Emax you really should write a book about YAN.
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Posted 15 January 2007 - 08:41 PM

"Can you explain some of the stuff this test lift was used for? When was it built, what model?"

It really was no particular model and was built primarily to test accelerators and decelerators for what became the (ill-fated) Keystone Gondola. We had it rigged to run a gondola back and forth in an endless cycle for weeks at a time. Some new brake ideas were tested on it as were several radio-control set-ups. One year, we tested everyone's deropement sensors and pretty much proved that none of them actually worked. This was the dawn of the RPD. We also were able to gain a lot of experience with "plug-resistive braking" - since the lift was short and very fast. Carriers had to be stopped in a heartbeat. The first programmable controllers were also used on that lift - relay-output Idecs - painfully programmed using their onboard keypad. That lift was also where I first tried the "truck brake pot" service brake scheme that is shown in the mechanical forum under "Yan 1500 Service Brake". Yan never liked it - but Brian Head does.

Following my departure in 1992, the test lift was replaced with a "test people-mover" - the one that killed Carl Stewart and injured two others when it failed to decelerate and ran into an end stop. I don't know much about that one - and don't want to.
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 02:28 PM

View Postold school, on Jan 15 2007, 08:44 PM, said:

Jim

I think I have some photos of the test lift and some of us working on it. I will look around and see what I can find.



View PostEmax, on Jan 15 2007, 09:18 PM, said:

I could dig through some really old slides - there might be some. Our 1985 "Christmas card" showed that lift... and a couple of naked bodies...

Thanks guys...anything you can dig up would be great!
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 03:00 PM

I am interested as well......DIG DIG DIG! :thumbsup:

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Posted 16 January 2007 - 04:20 PM

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No not the place for a good time

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Posted 16 January 2007 - 06:51 PM

Here's home, the one is my town, other is the hill. And yes I know it's quite small compared to the rest of you guys! :blush:

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#29 mikest2

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Posted 16 January 2007 - 06:54 PM

Seems I'm too dumb to save a google image.

Chalet at Big White is 49 43' 04.67"N, 118 56' 15.91"W
Cat shop at Big White is 49 43' 19.27"N. 118 57' 23.06"W
Home downtown is 49 57' 35.77"N, 119 27' 32.49"W

Anyone wanting to PM me on how to save an image would be appreciated !
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 07:21 PM

Mike, when in google earth, go to where you want the picture, click File, Save, Save Image. Then you can save the screenshot and attach it to the forum.

For all canadian ski hills marked in Google Earth check this out, Click Here

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#31 Emax

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Posted 12 February 2007 - 09:32 PM

The location of someone who has neglected to post.


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Posted 13 February 2007 - 08:02 AM

Old School...I have pics of the people mover lift in the yard at Carson. Why don't you post some troll pics for all the children?

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 09:00 AM

View PostOutback, on Feb 13 2007, 09:02 AM, said:

Old School...I have pics of the people mover lift in the yard at Carson. Why don't you post some troll pics for all the children?


Outback, I don't want to scare anyone.

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 09:01 AM

View Postold school, on Feb 13 2007, 10:00 AM, said:

Outback, I don't want to scare anyone.

Especially after the surgery.....

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 09:45 AM

View Postold school, on Feb 13 2007, 12:01 PM, said:

Especially after the surgery.....

Did the estrogen therapy work for Troll's back hair?

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 10:41 AM

View Postbarnstormer, on Feb 13 2007, 09:45 AM, said:

Did the estrogen therapy work for Troll's back hair?

Naw...made it worse! Braided it into cornrows to be a trollmatt!

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 03:46 PM

First is my house. I don't know what my home area truly is, but I wish it was this one.

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 05:45 PM

View Postskierdude9450, on Feb 13 2007, 04:46 PM, said:

First is my house. I don't know what my home area truly is, but I wish it was this one.



Ah, yes. Equidistant from Grenoble, Torino and Geneva - the Alps.

One can surrender, wave a white flag out the window of a Ferrerri and drive to neutrality.

But of course! - what more could one ask.

BTW - the corner of E. Euclid and S. Lafayette sucks.

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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 06:03 PM

View PostEmax, on Feb 13 2007, 06:45 PM, said:

Ah, yes. Equidistant from Grenoble, Torino and Geneva - the Alps.

One can surrender, wave a white flag out the window of a Ferrerri and drive to neutrality.

But of course! - what more could one ask.

BTW - the corner of E. Euclid and S. Lafayette sucks.



I assume that you are French
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou

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Posted 13 February 2007 - 06:47 PM


There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou
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