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 on our initial visits
for pricing or while engineering projects. Of the hundreds of elevators, and
thousands of pictures, these are some of the gems we've seen this past year.
Lots of
wires – now that we are involved in internet and phones, we need to work with the buildings on
getting us a good internet connection.
This is a telecommunication area we were pointed to.
Bad packing – This is the state of a cylinder gland
packing we found when changing out the seals.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one like this.
Alarm Chaos – I have 4 year old and 7 year old
boys, it looks like they were sent here to investigate the fire alarm.
The Streets Where I’m Living – There
was/is a band called the NY Citizens and they had a song called “The Streets Where
I’m Living”. I missed the part of the
song where they said they installed the street in the elevator pit.
Pool party – I coach a girls travel softball team
and we wanted to have a pool party, but ran out of money. I got this picture from one of our mechanics
and decided we can save some money and have the pool party in the elevator
pit. We did have to pay for shots and
antibiotics after the pool party.
No problem
here – From time to
time we go to buildings that do not have power outages, and find out that they
really may have had a power issue. That or
my 4 and 7 year olds have been moving wires around on the door operator.
I haven’t seen
this before – Not sure I’ve
seen this solution on a pump/dump before.
It is creative, like putting a tarp on your driveway with a pully system
to avoid shoveling, only to find out that when it snows too much you can’t pull the
tarp up so you borrow your neighbor’s snowblower. After you are done snowblowing the tarp and
getting it stuck in the snow blower, you return it to your neighbor and pretend
nothing happened.
Too much
greenfield – There are
other piping options than using greenfield all over the car. Just say NO!
Disclaimer – We see hundreds and thousands of
pictures over the course of a year. While we don’t see as many great pictures
of maintained elevators, we do see them, which is fantastic. We have a lot of
very dedicated and talented elevator people in our area. The reason we don’t
see a lot of buildings getting great elevator service is because they are happy
with their mechanic and the mechanic is probably cleaning and taking care of
the building. Those buildings are not calling us to get pricing for elevator work
because they are being taken care of. Be the great mechanic or helper, don’t be
these people. We should all take the time and care we would like to have people
who work in our homes to have. Do great things! We have great jobs! We have a
great industry! If you are doing great, Keep it up. If you need to improve, no
other time than now to start! Lets do it!
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.
