Elevator Forum

Hundreds of interviews for the next couple months, good luck all. Please follow all of the information given to you, it is extremely important and sho...

in local 8 the list is for all of local 8 sf to bako to reno. they will usually ask where you live and if you are looking to be outside of SF. There i...

Thank you all for going through the test and interview process. I know it is a stressful drawn out process. Please understand how small, proud and ful...

As an interviewer I look for a few things.A clean 1-2 page resume, the first thing I do is look at your resume and see what you have been up to the la...

We had one where a night time maintenance guy at a hospital thought it would be a good idea to borrow some oil out of the hydro tank to change the oil...

A competitor of mine installed a few and he said they worked great, except I saw a few used ones on the floor of his shop, so take that as a warning.

Run the car to the top on inspection and tap on the piston in several places to see if the noise changes(hollow vs. not). If 40 gallons of oil are in ...

The Otis/Unitec AT-400 works great on Dover door equipment as well. Get rid of all the bearings and linkages that wear out.

Thanks for sharing your opinion.

I believe certain customers will stick with full maintenance national account type agreements but the market will correct when only current contract h...

500% at Otis is BS, Otis financial controls wouldn't allow that to continue. I agree with jkh though, the market dictates prices. Buildings choose to ...

I would like to see buildings take over this monitoring like fire and sway sensors and provide the group with a dry contact. There is a lot of talk in...

What size pipe? how long are the runs? how many 90's?Most hydros I see these days run 2" and some long runs with more than a few 90's.2.5" or 3" oil l...

I always thought that the output was left on while in test so you could fire a hall lantern or such and then have time to go see if it actually worked...