Elevator Forum

arcing on the motor brushes with the car at rest usually indicates an "out of neutral" setting on the brush rigging or self excitation as one mentione...

you beat me to it Dan-love that light bulb 🙂

It makes me feel warm and cozy 🙂

BYP or most likely US is out of adjustment

Very nice! I have not seen any recent photos of these old beasts-glad there are still some around

sorry Jim-I forgot about you-I will not let that happen again ☹️

great pics Rollaway-it looks as though it was a belt drive conversion.

Tiller rope manual elevator. We had one under maintenance in the mid 1980's when I first got in. We stopped working on it after the building started t...

When I had a route the oldest was an American Elevator-no car gate-wood rails-sash counterweight-dirt pit floor. The install was early 1920's. I have ...

Electrodyne is a place to check for prints-they probably have a set

wow-1000! 🙂

It might have been steam powered at one time, from a central steam plant and then belted over to it. Or it may have had a motor to belt setup at one t...

Titan is the place to go. Those seals on the sheave shaft are leakers-when you grease the torque tube make sure to pull out the bleeding allen plugs o...

Welcome! Good to see the great folks at Titan