Well I didn't get much of a response so I can assume that no one else here has one of these great things.


This is the mountain end. Not finished as the end of the building needs supports and I need to do something creative with the inside - does not seem natural for people to jump 2m down from a cable car to get off...


This is the tower that supports the cable between the mountain and the valley ends. The problem is that the black cable is supposed to sit on the metal knob at the end, but when I do this the cable car falls off the black thread. [xx(]

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Hi Adrian,

While I do not have the model, your first photo reminds me of "Where eagles dare" [Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood et al.]; they did jump 2 meters from the roof of the car (and RB sprained his ankle I believe) to a platform that aligns with the car door; in your model -- as far as I can see -- this platform should be located more or less on the level of the square opening in the left-hand wall.

As to the car falling off the thread, are you sure the cable should sit on the metal knob? As the cable will necessarily be at different angles before and after the knob it is impossible to keep both ends of the car suspension(?the thing that connects the car to the cable) in contact with the cable during the passage of the tower. The girder-like thing the cable now runs on normally serves to ease that transition as it supports the entire suspension during the passage of the tower.

Hope this makes sense.

Jeroen

I am pretty sure the wire is routed the right way as you have done in the picture. We only have one place where that type of Cable Car in Sweden and what I remember the cable should have been routed that way. If my father was alive I could asked him because he was one of the guys building it.

Have tried to find pictures but have not found any with enough detail in that part.

A video of the thing working would also be nice Adrian!!

Great model Adrian!!!!!!
thanks for the video

Nice video Adrian - Makes a great addition to the layout.Something I have thought of as well.

Can you slow them down? - to me they may be going a bit fast? Perhaps reduce the supply voltage a bit.?

Looks impressive.
I have the Brawa Funicular Set item 6310 which has the same drive unit and I noticed that it is rather noisy. Once I have my conversions done on my locomotives (15 to go) I will be looking at a way to change the motor and hopefully connect it to a decoder so the speed and lighting can be controlled digitally. It seems that the lighting might be a little too bright also, with the reduced voltage as suggested earlier the lights will also dim some and last longer.

Nice video! I also have a cable car, it's one of these old Eheim items (which later was taken over by Brawa):

http://biphome.spray.se/...ck/Layout_overview_L.jpg

As you can see on the picture, I have a very short distance between the valley and mountain stations. Therefore, I didn't care about using the tower. And I'm using only one cable, i.e. no black nylon cable.

My motor also sounds too much. I would also be very interested in input on that side...

Funck