This lift is mostly SLI but also looks like it has some custom components.Upper section of the line.Top station with vault drive.Last tower and the top bullwheel.View down the lift line.Bottom terminal and first few towers.Unique lower station design.And a Yan tower thrown into the mix.Tower 1. It looks like the original tower 1 was sawed away?
Chair two was built in summer of 1968. it is a Newcomb design and fabrication. original sheave assemblies were replaced to ski lift international. and the original chairs were replaced with SLI
The Newcomb family was the owner of Mt. Waterman at the time. They weren’t a ski lift company. I think he’s trying to say this lift is mostly homemade.
Yan did the SLI retrofit on chair 2. Parts may have come from Park City?? Today the gearbox is the original Mammoth chair 1.
Lynn Newcomb and his friends from JPL in Pasadena CA. designed two different grips. One for a single chair (made out of steel) and one for a double chair. The double chair one was made out of a phosphorous Bronze material that started breaking going around the bullwheels. I have one of each of these grips, somewhere in the shop. Think they built there first rope tow in the 1940’s ?? and single chair in the 1950’5, after a trip to Sun Valley.
Pretty interesting character!!
So he designed and made the first three lifts at Waterman (rope tow and chairs 1 & 2) and the single chair at Kratka? And the gearbox is the United Tramway’s gearbox?
I am not sure about Kratka. Although I have seen the Kratka in operation before the fire. Don’t remember who built the gearbox.
But the gearbox is huge and all welded/fabricated not cast, if I remember correctly, it’s many years since I was last there.
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why isn’t there a operator house at the bottom terminal
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Tower 1 looks like it was replaced with a YAN tower and sheaves
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Chair two was built in summer of 1968. it is a Newcomb design and fabrication. original sheave assemblies were replaced to ski lift international. and the original chairs were replaced with SLI
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Could you please provide more information on Newcomb? Was it the only lift they made? Are they still in business?
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The Newcomb family was the owner of Mt. Waterman at the time. They weren’t a ski lift company. I think he’s trying to say this lift is mostly homemade.
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Yan did the SLI retrofit on chair 2. Parts may have come from Park City?? Today the gearbox is the original Mammoth chair 1.
Lynn Newcomb and his friends from JPL in Pasadena CA. designed two different grips. One for a single chair (made out of steel) and one for a double chair. The double chair one was made out of a phosphorous Bronze material that started breaking going around the bullwheels. I have one of each of these grips, somewhere in the shop. Think they built there first rope tow in the 1940’s ?? and single chair in the 1950’5, after a trip to Sun Valley.
Pretty interesting character!!
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So he designed and made the first three lifts at Waterman (rope tow and chairs 1 & 2) and the single chair at Kratka? And the gearbox is the United Tramway’s gearbox?
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I am not sure about Kratka. Although I have seen the Kratka in operation before the fire. Don’t remember who built the gearbox.
But the gearbox is huge and all welded/fabricated not cast, if I remember correctly, it’s many years since I was last there.
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