Elevator Picture Hall of Fame 2023 – Volume 2

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 at our 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 I've seen this past year.

Gooey Goo – We actually ran into 2 or 3 EECO UV5 valves that had the same issue in the last few months.  Three of the same vintages valves, same gooey goo.

Ribbon Cable Medusa – We have been chasing an account for a number of years and I get to see this picture every year. Sadly the building has been saying “hey!  We are staying with our current vendor”.  This year is the year we get to start working on the mythical creature that has been hiding in the caves of Greece.   One size ribbon cable fits all!  

  

Remember These? – There are only a few things cooler in an elevator controller than a 3 ¼” floppy; a 5 ½” floppy and a cassette tape for memory back up.  I used these guys to play World Games on my parent's Apple IIgs!  Anyone for Caper Toss?  If you need a converter from 3 1/4" to USB just go to Radio Shack, they have them.

 

Fractured PVC – We did a cylinder project after taking over an account and were surprised when we pulled this up.  A bit of a surprise for the cylinder replacement team when this came out of the ground.  I get to go on most of our cylinder leaks to put a 2^nd set of eyes on them and thought it was a bit early for a 2000 era elevator to have a cylinder leak, but… now we know why.

 

I Love Electrical Tape – I like electrical tape as much as the next person but this is a bit much.  Jiminy Crickets this could have been done differently for a customer who paid for a new elevator modernization.

 

Great Pits – While most of the pictures in this post are laughable or disturbing, this is actually really great to see.  We have an elevator pit painted and well maintained.  I wish we would see more of this!  Great work whoever did this!

 

Furry Fan – I went to a few buildings in Rogers Park – Chicago, IL and sometimes they are not good fits for us.  I walked into this machine room and saw starter parts all over the floor and when I went on the car top, I saw this.  The elevator maintenance company was going once a month to this building and I’d imagine this fan had not been cleaned since it was installed sometime in 2006/7.  A fan isn’t going to make the elevator run better but it sure is indicative of the care that is being shown to the elevator system.  I'm shocked that the started contacts welded at this building.

 

Too Tall Jones – Someone should have put their glasses on making the elevator pit, that is a very tall corrective device on the bottom of the elevator.  

If you have any questions or would like additional information feel free to contact me at CraigZ@colleyelevator.com or 630-766-7230 ext. 107.