Elevator Forum

Yes they work great!

What was the old controller? Manufacturer will have a slowdown switch chart. Then measure the switches and you’ll know how it was set up. A simple pul...

Rest in peace brother.

Under the plate the board is mounted on you will find a transformer and capacitors. Change bad capacitors your back in business.but the upgraded board...

After rereading my last post to be clear we use mufflers like Cantons but will not use air up mufflers. Sorry for the confusion if any

Air bladder style mufflers work but why have something that fails that you have to replace under a maintenance contract. We have had to replace severa...

Worm is correct a little every year in everything! Grease is cheap. You don’t have to hang a chain block to grease. But you sure will if you don’t

Good info here! Here’s a trick I was taught that made me go WOW that’s the easiest way to do that. When you want to find center of rails to do fronts ...

Good advice and I second Maxton Safetach!

Solidstate gives solid advise as usual. If I got a new job and it had an electrodyne overlay I knew prints wouldn’t be a problem. Jobs without an over...

i googled it and found a manual on line. Columbus McKinnin

What controller is it in?

Are your phone wires shielded? If so shield only hooked up on one end? I’ve seen unshielded lines cause false dial on PI advance or door operation. Th...

I told our sales department to bid these hydros like traction elevators. Lots of maintenance and repair time. Finding ones that don’t leak would be am...

There was an outfit called CIA (no kidding) they showed up at an elevator convention selling pigs to remove oil from water. I told him I needed the op...