J7 replaced the majority of the old J3 lift, which was shortened to run behind where this photo was taken.The drive station turnaround.Lift Engineering made a number of changes in the two years that passed between construction of J6 and J7 including teardrop chairs, a new operator house style and new lifting frame design.View up the line from the first tower.Portal at the bottom station.Side view of the bottom drive terminal. The tire equipment was once not under a roof.Catwalk rocker assemblies.Doppelmayr replaced not only the grips but also the hangers in 1996.View down the line. Note J3 which used to continue up this line.Tall ‘Y’ style towers.Doppelmayr added whole new tower heads to towers with combo assemblies.View down the lower two thirds of the line.Doppelmayr combination assemblies.View from the top shack.The unload.Like all newer terminals at June, the return is height adjustable. Or at least it was before the Doppelmayr retrofit.Another look at the return.Steep approach to the summit.View back down the line in winter.Arriving at the summit.Doppelmayr Worldbook entry. The pictures are actually of J6.
These photos were taken immediately after the modification. They were so far behind on all the retrofits that June operated their two Doppelmayr modified Yan detachables without terminal skins for a year.
No they got new ones. At Mammoth and June the skins were custom fabricated.
All the other Doppelmayr-modified lifts got UNI-Spacejet skins.
All the Poma-modified lifts got first-gen Challenger skins except the bottom return on Grand Summit Express at Mount Snow. On that terminal, it initially got a custom skin that just covered the tire banks and rails. In 2011, it was upgraded to a first-gen Challenger skin to make it more maintenance friendly.
J6 operates with the “pentagon” chairs, while this lift operates with the teardrop chairs. If the Worldbook entry is of J6, why are the chairs the teardrop chairs (instead of the pentagon chairs J6 has currently)?
I have a few questions regarding the original combo assemblies. In every Yan detachable I’ve seen, the combo sheaves have been replaced. Why is that? Also, are there any pictures of the original Yan combo assemblies on lifts like this?
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If you look closely, you can see that all the sheaves have been replaced, the reason for that being because of aluminum components in the sheave assemblies that showed up after 1983 and the fact that the Type 7 needed a special combination assembly for how the grip was designed. I believe the type 6 used a similar style of combination assembly as the type 7, there’s photos of both on remontees mecaniques. I would post a link but WordPress sends it to spam if I do.
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Were all Yan detachables originally without a terminal skin?
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These photos were taken immediately after the modification. They were so far behind on all the retrofits that June operated their two Doppelmayr modified Yan detachables without terminal skins for a year.
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So are they using the original Yan skins again?
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No they got new ones. At Mammoth and June the skins were custom fabricated.
All the other Doppelmayr-modified lifts got UNI-Spacejet skins.
All the Poma-modified lifts got first-gen Challenger skins except the bottom return on Grand Summit Express at Mount Snow. On that terminal, it initially got a custom skin that just covered the tire banks and rails. In 2011, it was upgraded to a first-gen Challenger skin to make it more maintenance friendly.
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are there any other Yan buildings anywhere that look like this and same terminals and windows
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J6, as well as a couple over a Mammoth. These were custom terminals designed in-house. They were not Yan, nor were they Doppelmayr.
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In the doppelmayr worldbook entry the pictures are actually of J7 not J6
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J6 operates with the “pentagon” chairs, while this lift operates with the teardrop chairs. If the Worldbook entry is of J6, why are the chairs the teardrop chairs (instead of the pentagon chairs J6 has currently)?
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The caption may be incorrect. The terrain at the top and bottom terminals fits the location for J7.
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I have a few questions regarding the original combo assemblies. In every Yan detachable I’ve seen, the combo sheaves have been replaced. Why is that? Also, are there any pictures of the original Yan combo assemblies on lifts like this?
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If you look closely, you can see that all the sheaves have been replaced, the reason for that being because of aluminum components in the sheave assemblies that showed up after 1983 and the fact that the Type 7 needed a special combination assembly for how the grip was designed. I believe the type 6 used a similar style of combination assembly as the type 7, there’s photos of both on remontees mecaniques. I would post a link but WordPress sends it to spam if I do.
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When would they have been replaced, at the time of the retrofit, or later on when the original sheaves were due to be replaced due to age and wear?
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At time of retrofit. Doppelmayr grips, accelerators, decelerators = Doppelmayr sheave assemblies.
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Here is a video of this lift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfOpN-q2I4&t=230s&pp=ygUUajcganVuZSBtb3VudGFpbiwgY2E%3D
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What’s that High pitched noise at the return?
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This lifts bottom and top terminal and all of the lifts towers are now painted green since Late 2022.
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