Cable Car stations

[muns]

And to the cars themselves.....

The underside of the drawbar with the teflon insert...

Solar roof panel...

The lighting electronics and battery are hidden inside the car

 

[muns]

 

[Philbahn]

Looking better each day.

Up here not much progress. Todays a better day . So this morning it's the indoor meeting then it's back to the cable cars.Think the best solution to the auto unit is to mount loco magnets under the cars

 

[themole]

I use nylon shark fishing line, for the cable:- works a treat. From all good fishing tackle shops. Alyn

 

[muns]

After some testing yesterday with destinguised visitors from the PBMM and Beckside works, it was determined that there still is too much friction on the running wire. The cable cars have temporary been removed from service and the drawbars have been transported to the PBMM workshops for modifications that will entail free running - that is they are having some pulleys fitted.

 

[Steve]

Brilliant Mark

The solar power bit is very neat ,another idea to store

 

[muns]

Well the Cable cars were returned from Beckside works last year and stored in the workshop.

managed to make a start on the lower station. Restrung the cables and made a little vid....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84agJK2SAPA

Scince then I have added magnets to the cars and temporary located some reed switches to trigger the slowing down and stopping of the cars.

 

[muns]

One of the light units has failed so another job to do is work out why and possibly fit brighter LEDs as you can hardly tell that they are on (probably due to the green windows.

 

[trammayo]

Like it! Certainly a departure from the usual cab views!

 

[muns]

The lower station is almost complete, just needs doors and railings. It has interior lighting (solar powered of course).
The cars have magnets attached to the top of the support frame where it pivots on the draw bar to trigger reed switches which in turn tells the Massoth 1200Z (via a feedback module) to stop the cars and reverse direction after a 30sec period.

I will post some pictures at some point.