Elevator Picture Hall of Fame – Volume 2 – 2022

We get to review a lot of pictures when we go to survey elevators for sales, shut downs or engineering.  Here are a few of the more unique ones we pulled out of our Elevator Picture Hall of Fame – Volume 2 – 2022.  It is like the disgrace of Edinburgh’s, you cannot stop looking and thinking, “what were they thinking”?

The Butcher of Dover – This was an elevator we used to take care of for a less than great owner.  The owner had a hard time paying their bills and has been featured in this blog for not heating their machine room correctly.  We parted ways many years ago.  Like a bad penny, this building popped back up on the radar with a new owner. 

There are a few more unique things that a company who they hired did to this elevator, but the controller is one that made it to the Hall of Fame.  This elevator is being modernized and on its way to working great!

The Butcher of Dover strikes again - While I was writing the description of the Dover Butcher, I remembered, the controller wasn’t the only wild thing that happened at the building featured. 

Neglected Pit – This isn’t very exciting, we see lots of neglected pits on sales calls.  As an industry, we can do better.  This owner was paying for monthly service. 

Stoned - This elevator is frequently unmotivated, gaining weight, growing its hair out, listens to jam bands and craves late night burritos after watching Bill and Ted II.

Rusty Disco – This owner was having problems with their lift for many years.  They are removing their whole lift soon and replacing it with a ramp.

Snake pipe – You ever look at an old picture of something and said “what where they thinking”? 

Hey 4^th year figure this out! – We have a great mechanic who likes to test all the apprentices to see if they can trace wires so he sets them up to troubleshoot this before he puts everything back on terminals nice and neat.  No… That wasn’t this story at all.

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