Elevator Picture Hall of Fame – Volume 1 – 2021

We get to review a lot of pictures when we go survey elevators for sales, shut downs or engineering.  Here are a few of the more unique ones we pulled out for our Elevator Picture Hall of Fame – Volume 1 – 2021.

Soft Start Edit – This is a first for me, seeing an edit on a soft start.  I’m sure there is a story to this one, I just don’t know it. 

Holy Santa Monica! – This is one of the more disastrous pits I have seen in a while.  It is from a south loop building that probably had a conversion in the early 2000’s from a freight elevator. 

Run Away – Anyone that has ever worked with this type of run station knows what controller this is.  The only reason I remember is because the marker labeling had worn off and I almost couldn’t get the car running after trying to do engineering for a similar elevator.  The wiring is on the more interesting side.  Lots of interesting things going on, on this car top.

 

Wired – There are a lot of wires. A lot of wires going places.  A lot of wires on the bottom of the controller.

 

Not Your Biggest Fan – This non-Colley elevator professional is not a fan of cleaning the fan.

 

Pit Notching – The hall of fame is not always for bad actors.  This actually really impressed me with the concrete work for our equipment and sump.

 

I’ll Get it Next Time – The way the dust has coalesced it appears it has been several moons since someone did anything here.

 

Pipes and Smokes – I had to take a few looks here to see that the smoke and heat detectors are really installed on the hydraulic line.

 

Strange Mod – We got a service call from a building we don't maintain. As a favor to the shared client, we sent a sales person out. They found that the elevator was out of service because someone was in the middle of installing a door operator.  It turned out there was some communication issues and the building had no idea they were getting a door operator.

 

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