Re: Salt mine elevator

From: András Reé <ree_at_eik.bme.hu>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 12:00:42 +0200

I have just got the following information concerning the Slanic elevator:
The cage was not detached and the rope was not broken. The rope came off
from the grove on the big wheel in the elevator machine house and was
falling down to the shaft. The safety break stopped the cage within a few
meters. One person of the two in the cage dropped down to his/her knee and
it was a bit injured.
Regards
Andras



2014-08-07 22:34 GMT+02:00 Benjamin Saks bensaks_at_gmail.com
[Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com>:

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> I wonder what part actually failed. Was it the steel cable that broke?
> Perhaps the attachment of the cable to the roof of the box. That roof was
> very rusty.
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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Tapio Linkosalo tapio.linkosalo_at_iki.fi
> [Indoor_Construction] <Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> On 07-Aug-14 00:24, indoorflyer_at_msn.com [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
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>> > Fortunately the brake stopped it before it hit bottom (I didn't know
>> > it had a brake) and except for a couple of minor injuries and near
>> > heart attacks all survived. Of course getting out of the mine was
>> > another problem which was solved by climbing through the working part
>> > of the mine.
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>> I would have thought that for a brake, the elevator cabin should run on
>> rails, and I did not see any. Maybe it just rotated a bit while it fell,
>> until it turned enough to get stuck in the shaft... :-)
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>> Seriously, I hope they get it fixed soon; we should be having the
>> European Championships in the mine in next April...
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>> -Tapio-
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