cable replacement on your lift?

[vonroll101]

i finally after 5 years and 9,000 hrs need to do a cable replacement.any other modelers of ropeways have a cable replacement comming up?...

 

[Andreas K.]

I have a fabric rope, and it needs to exchange a times a year

 

[Ram-Brand]

My areal tramway is new. The steel rope looks got.
No replacement needed. I hope the rope lives over 5 years

 

[Petz]

The 2 mm steel rope i am using at the Graffer gondola (my most used lift - often running 24/7... ) in the meantime ran about 15.000 hours since december 2003; absolutely no rope damages visible so there´s no reason for a rope exchance.
2010 i will have to exchange most of the sheave battery screws cause the polyvinylcloride plastic wheels have grinded the stainless steel screws shafts to half of the origin diameter, the clamps had to replaced next year too...

 

[vonroll101]

thats alot of hours on that lift markus.the cable has just stretched too much.i also run my lift with weight inside the gondolas..clamps or grips i inspect on all 48 gondolas every 2 months.cable diameter is .062....or 1/16th.ill be increasing the size to 3/32....or .093...

 

[Petz]

Based on the much smaller distances between the towers i don´t need a high rope tension, is only about 4 pounds and maybe the reason for a longer rope life.

 

[vonroll101]

i can see where you are comming from markus.my longest span between towers is 32 feet.and a 15 pound counterweight..due to the long span,sheaves are replaced on tower 2 and 3 every year.as for your wear on your sheave shafts,i have a similar problem.does any other model ropeway builder have a counterweight besides you and me...??

 

[4CLD_Gampebahn]

Hello, My Leitner/ Doppelmayr - T-bar even have a counterweight , The Lift is build by markus but thigs like, leaders, platforms and the tower 2 are built by me. I must replace the rope this year before winter saision because it isn´t strong enough for the hard weather changes :S i´m don´t using a steelrope but i will use one in the future.

I´m Sorry for my bad english but i´m doing my best.

Greetz Jochen

@rob: look at the " Gletscher Spaß am Teichkogel" topic there you see the T-bar
(Markus and me are planing a "big" little skiresort at my garden and the garageroof)

 

[vonroll101]

markus does build some great lifts...what kind of cable are you going to use?

 

[4CLD_Gampebahn]

markus does build some great lifts...what kind of cable are you going to use?

Oh yes he build really great lifts (And i´m proud that i am allowed to deliver some pieces (actually Chairs & next year Towers and T-Bar´s for him)

My Rope is a kind of Paketrope (don´t know how to explain it in english) but i´m looking for an other rope and the next lifts (2 T-bars & an KMB (3 place Chairs an 4person Cabins) will have an steelrope or the rope of the "Jägerndorfer Pendebahn" (A Blacktextil rope)

 

[vonroll101]

have you tried to splice rope yet??a bit hard to do with such small cable..

 

[4CLD_Gampebahn]

No the actual rope is able to knot. I have tried to splice 3 times a 3mm steelrope but i don´t get it hard enough that i can use it. I must try splice at a later ropeway (Maybe at a "secret projekt" on my "glacier" or the KMB)

 

[vonroll101]

finally replaced cable on my model..224 feet of steel wire rope. 3/32 diameter..increased the counterweight from 15 to 18 lbs to make up the difference on rope weight..cost of cable..300 us dollars..splicing was very difficult..splice is 3 feet long..its barly noticeable...other maintance on the ride includes replacing all 164 sheaves..tower 4 will have 2 16 sheave roller batteries in the next few months..to install the 16 sheave tower batteries,i need to shorten the tower cross arm by 1/2 inch..inceasing capacity to 38 cars from 36..these are the updates im doing on my model vonroll vr101...happy modeling my friends..
robert
san diego california

USA