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Capacity of a system is normally measured by the rate of loading of a single station.
Everyone should watch that cable splice video carefully, and notice that they don't weld, or clamp, or make any solid end-to-end connections when they do it.
All they do is weave the ends together and rely on FRICTION to hold the cable in one piece.
Think about that while you're in the cabin swaying back and forth and bouncing up and down over the water...
All they do is weave the ends together and rely on FRICTION to hold the cable in one piece.
Think about that while you're in the cabin swaying back and forth and bouncing up and down over the water...
Except for buildings cemented into bedrock... just about everything denser than loose dirt (including humans) relies on friction from sinking into earthen land.
Friction is super powerful.
Goofyernmost
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rle4lunch
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Larryz joining the gondola death chants. lol
Joining? I hold card number XXX or XXX in the Mickey Mouse Fun Gondolas of Death Club...
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THE Monorail Lime
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Why don’t you just tell us you social security number while your at it! Your not supposed to tell them your number!
Sorry... I forgot the first rule of Mickey Mouse Fun Gondolas of Death Club...
Bender123
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Amazingly, if you weave the pages of two phonebooks together, two cars cant pull them apart. Mythbusters showed it, once and the books failed when the binding glue on one ripped at the spine. It wasn't even the friction areas that failed, it was the glue.
Edit to add...In Part two, it took two tanks to separate them at about 8000 Lbs of force.
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THE Monorail Lime
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you will be punished to Disney pureist lectures
Goofyernmost
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Personally, I think they need to change a few words in our national anthem to "land of the free and the home of the scared of everything. Who wants to just die of old age... no one can get sympathy from that. I say point me to the weak weave... I look danger in the eye and say "Bring it on, punk!"
BTW, if by some chance when I do ride them and get (take your pick) roasted, electrifried, drowned and/or eaten by Alligators, killed by weak weave or any of the multiple reasons already mentioned (more to come, I'm sure), all the people trying to warn me are free to go ahead and mark on my headstone... "We told you so".
If there were a weld, no doubt you'd be warning about weak welds or the cable derailing due to the bump of the weld passing thru the sheaves!
The car isn't welded to the cable either.
Bender123
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Anybody that's been on a suspension bridge has seen how this works, but there still are people that will act like metal cables are the devils magic.
Right up to the point where it isn't...
So, why didn't they make the cable out of phone books? (That's rhetorical, of course...)
Oh, yes... those clamps holding the cars to the cable rely on simple springs... good point!
As opposed to Mickey magic...?
trainplane3
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You're right. That's why my parents found a bottle of..."lotion"... in their night stand on our last trip. Apparently the last family to have that room had some friction issues
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DisneyJeff
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So now we have "death by poor weave". Is there no end to this disaster in waiting?
Oh great... now we have to worry about bad weaves on the Disney Magical Gondola of Death!!!