Elevator picture Hall of Fame 2020 - Superbowl of Elevators!

 

The Hall of Fame posts are typically some of the more popular blogs in the Colley blog history. We get to see a lot of elevators during the year during out initial visits for pricing or during engineering for projects.  Of the hundreds of elevators and thousands of pictures we look at, these are some of the gems we've seen this past year.

Wired! – This elevator is wired and works.  That is about all we can say about this elevator modernization. Looks like there have been some hatchet battles that have taken place in the controller.

Hair club for cylinder heads – This cylinder head a more hair on it than most Buccaneers of a certain age.

Halloween cylinder head – Believe it or not we saw this cylinder head on Halloween.  We got a call from the building that they kept hearing a noise in the pit.  It turned out that the cylinder head was dressing up for Halloween as a cheetah and the noise the building was hearing was from the head purring.

 

Locked, stock and smoking elevator controller – We went all the way up to an elevator machine room with a building owner and he asked the person who went up there if they can help with cutting the lock off.  “I brought up the bolt cutters, can you finish”?  We politely declined.

 

Unicorn – We see all sorts of hydraulic machines and retro fits to machines, this is one of the more unique retrofits I have seen.  The project team did make it work.

 

Anarchy in the hoistway – We went to a building who opted to get safeties installed on their elevator instead of replacing the elevator cylinder to comply with our Chicago cylinder mandate.  Governah! 

 

Just the right spot – Not sure about this one but I’m pretty sure that there is a trust issue or a leak.

 

Crazy Eight – Here it is!

 

The shop never sent me a pit bucket with top – We applaud the intent for some of these stop gap measures, but, sometimes we forget to go back and put in a correct solution.

 

Maintenance mechanic’s new account dream – When a maintenance mechanic walks onto a job for the first time after picking up the building on maintenance, sometimes we find this.  

 

To be fair 99% of the elevators we go through are in reasonable condition but sometimes you pause when reviewing the buildings for maintenance, modernization or service when the sales person brings back the information and we do a job/pricing review.  These are from the 4^th standard deviation.

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