Elevator Forum

It is sad when you think about it, this was our everyday at one time, has that much time passed??? It seems to have! The CS lockup, worn selector guid...

All excellent comments. One thing I would add, your service provider should have examined and dressed the piston BEFORE they repacked the jack. If the...

Good point JKH, it goes beyond just the machine itself. What about the building structure that supports this elevator, is this elevator only one of a ...

Any deviation beyond 5% of the original specified car dead weight or counterweight has to be submitted to the OEM's engineering department, that would...

They can develope cracks because the shaft is not solid, cracks can lead to a total failure of the shaft

There is a hollow shaft repair procedure, it does take quite a bit of room to accomplish it though. Just had a Mod job with hollow's, we couldnt do th...

There you go! Car number is very important 🙂 Sounds like someone loaded software and used one car as a donor, then didnt set the car designation.

He's using static reasoning, thats a huge mistake. What if someone stumbled due to misleveling and broke an arm? That would throw the equation off- he...

If you look at the average age of the 6850, not mention the 140M, it's hard to justify the R&D money to develope a retrofit. Most owners of such e...

Had one similar to this. The hall button originally had a "shorted" push button bulb at that landing, it ended up taking out the input for that call i...

I have seen cars do the same thing, I once caught one doing it. It tires to leave the top landing, picks the brake then drifts up. It will do this unt...

That would be the MRS 11 overlay, they are out of business- Elevator Components

That's a good one, I wonder if Draka would custom make this sort of animal.

Wow, good find! Its amazing how those of us who cut our teeth on relay logic, now find that we have to worry about power supplies- they have bitten me...

Yep, Lambdas are hard to come by at this time.