SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Better Maze Management
This is the time of year when areas begin to set up for the coming season and assess procedures from the previous year. Such…
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Lift Controls
Presentations by three electrical engineers at the Vail Tramway Seminar gave a fascinating look at various approaches to lift controls, their philosophies and dreams…
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Ctec
It sounds almost too good to be true. The American dream at its best. Two hard working engineers pool their resourses—mostly brainpower, education and…
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Gauge Alignment
The May 1980 issue of SAM had a very good article on ALIGNMENT by George Cooper, Lift Supervisor, Purgatory, Colorado. In that article Mr.…
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New Look For B77
The proposed B77. 1-1982 may reflect the most significant changes in the standard since the 1960s. These changes will not manifest themselves as changes…
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Detachable Quad At Breckenridge
This was to be no everyday grand opening of a new lift—the Mark III Standard Model, complete with frost-bitten Governor. This one was different.…
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Hall Ski-Lift Co
This season, skiers from California to Maine will be riding on 19 new chairlifts carrying the name Hall. Two are quads, eight are triples…
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Lifts 1981
North American lift construction for 1981 gives totals that, like last year’s, convey mixed signals. The grand totals for new lifts are even at…
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Controlling Lifts With Computers
The technology of micro computer systems has come a long way in the past ten years. So far in fact that it is not…
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A Better Idea
What does an 18 year old high school senior from Schnectady, New York have that, is of interest to SAM readers? Very simply, a…