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[jeffgladnick]

Hey guys,

This is a SnoRhino question. A lot of our customers, especially the ones who have doppelmayr chairs, want to use the SnoRhino as a replacement for the rubber bumpers they have now. The rubber bumpers apparently crack quickly, and have to be replaced about every year @ $5 a piece. Anyway, we want to figure out what impact this will have on the SnoRhino if any. Here are the planned tests:

A piece of steel the same width as the upper support arm on most doppel chairs hits the snorhino at various places (esepcially the middle part where it most often makes contact with the chair). This is done on a machine that acts kind of like a jack hammer, and is set to 500 RPM.

One of our mech engineers made the machine and he said its at LEAST as much force that the thing experiences when its out side on our test chair (in the backyard :)).

We do this test at 73, 32, and 40 below freezing.

We also do dead weight drops with vertical weight, 45 angle weight, and horizontal force applied. Also at different temperatures.


Anything else I am missing? Any suggestions? Did i over look anything?