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Re: lifts

To: Bill Rabel <brabel@dlux.net>
Subject: Re: lifts
From: Charlie Kish <ckish@mpdr0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 22:02:01 -0400
Bill Rabel wrote:
> 
> > If I remember correctly, the Cytech lift is operated by cables.
> > Wouldn't it be better to have one of the ones operated by a leaf chain?
> 
> The cables are *hugely* oversized. There's no danger of them breaking
> unless they get *seriously* frayed. One merely needs to check
> occasionally to make sure that the cables are routed through the sheaves
> properly. A visual inspection of leaf chain wouldn't accomplish much.
> 
> - Bill
Ok guys - teach me.  What is a leaf chain?  I don't think that I have
heard that term before.  charlie

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