Going down?
Jun. 1st, 2004 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqOne of the two most unreliable elevators in my experience is down for maintenance. Again. These cantankerous machines are palpable evidence against going with the lowest bidder.
Inasmuch as we are used to service outages, the current one is well into its third week, with no sign of improvement. Yesterday I learned the cause of the delay.
1)The elevator is a poorly-maintained cheap piece of shit The motor burned out.
2)The building owners are penny-pinching assholes A new motor is fairly expensive
3)I mean, these guys are fucking tightwads! So they have shipped the motor off to the US to have it rewound.
That was three weeks ago, so presumably it has been lost in the mail, they have hired cheap child-labour to manually wind the coils, or they are waiting for enough other motors to burn out so that they can salvage a bunch of used wire, tie the ends together and shave a few more dollars off the cost of repairs.
I guess the lone upside to all of this is that it encourages me to take the stairs on occasion.
Inasmuch as we are used to service outages, the current one is well into its third week, with no sign of improvement. Yesterday I learned the cause of the delay.
1)
2)
3)
That was three weeks ago, so presumably it has been lost in the mail, they have hired cheap child-labour to manually wind the coils, or they are waiting for enough other motors to burn out so that they can salvage a bunch of used wire, tie the ends together and shave a few more dollars off the cost of repairs.
I guess the lone upside to all of this is that it encourages me to take the stairs on occasion.
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Date: 2004-06-01 07:21 am (UTC)Traction or hydraulic elevator?
How old is it? (well, how old is the building?)
How many stops?
Who's the elevator maker?
Who maintains it?
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Date: 2004-06-02 05:17 am (UTC)Not hydraulic. They've taken the elevators out of service more than once to replace the cables.
>How old is it? (well, how old is the building?)
When we moved in back in 1994 the building was fairly new, so I'll guess about 15ish years old.
>How many stops?
9 floors, 8 stops. The 6th floor is a supersecrethighsecurity floor. There isn't even a button in the elevator to stop at that floor.
>Who's the elevator maker?
Dover. I don't know how to tell what model it is, but would it help if I told you it has a capacity of 22 people or 3500 pounds?
>Who maintains it?
Not a clue. Some of the maintenance guys look like they stepped right out of detox, so I am assuming that it is whoever tendered the lowest bid.
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Date: 2004-06-01 07:36 am (UTC)