4M Tin Can Cable Car

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Tin Can Cable Car is a really novel way to recycle a drinks can! With easy-to-follow instructions that will guide you through some simple assembly and electrical wiring, you can have your cable car up and running in no time. In 1928 Lehmann created a tinplate toy of the Rigi 795 cable car. This model was inspired by Richter’s 1927 honeymoon in the Swiss Alps. The design of the toys was similar to that of the old cable cars of the Wetterhorn in Switzerland. These Lehmann cars are known to exist with the main cabin colour yellow or orange; grey window frames; and white, cream or blue tops. The cabin featured a swing-open door, and seated inside at either end were two figures. This Lehmann model came with cord and a mounted tin cranking mechanism with which you could reel the car up and down the cable. Lehmann produced the Rigi 795 until 1945. The two rope arrangement works the same way, except that the car rides on a single line while being pulled by the other. Setups which have two cable cars feature two sets of single or double lines on which the cars ride, but they share the same powered rope which in this case forms a loop from the lower station to the upper station for one car, and from the upper station to the lower station for the other car. With this two car setup, each car is attached at points on the powered cable so that when one car is at the lower terminal, the other is at the upper station. With this arrangement, the cars pass each other at the midway point of the entire cable system. In this twin car array, a motor at the lower terminus pulls one car downward, the weight of which assists in simultaneously drawing the other car upward. The videos below show Jägerndorfer cable car models in use within a village display, the first is 1:87 scale and the second is 1:32. Jaegerndorfer (Jägerndorfer) are manufacturers of scale model trains, cable cars and associated accessories. The models they produce, while not as cheap as some other options, are serious pieces of kit. A Jägerndorfer cable car will take your Christmas village display to a whole new level.

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