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Think I know which one this is. Saw it through the window. On a little side street

What's the brand of the pump? GMV, Hydroware, Blain/Leistritz or Bucher Hydraulics?

Can you do a video of the machine room for the Yellow Lifts?

Happy new year mate 🇬🇧

I just finished installing a custom residential elevator for a client. They would like to make a working floor indicator dial if possible. Your video is very similar in concept. I would like to know what components you used to make yours work.

The machine and controller are in very good condition and working great being nearly 70 yrs old. 400 VAC 3P controller is drawing only 20A. I have seen 2:1 roping with sheaves (top of cab each end) It's interesting the machine/driven sheave are offset from the dead hitched ropes anchored into the ceiling. One's I am familiar with w/ the single sheave top of cab and counterweight and defector sheave are in line. With a slight angle of the machine. How are the ropes which pass over the driven sheaves anchored to the cab? The most recent configuration I saw was a modification of an MRL moving the comp sheaves to the top of the cab dead hitching the rope ends from the machine and counterweight.

1 is up 2 is down…… that may not be the original controller as the building appears to be much older

Interesting, based the lables above the inside buttons and on the motor, his appears to at least partly be Pickerings Lift - a company established in the UK all the way back in 1854. The company was known for being a reputable lift manufacturer for many years. Whilst they are still going, they're now really only known for being a distributor of other others, rather than actually manufacturing their own, and they only serve the UK market.

That is a beauty

So ECC was the distributor of FIAM in New Zealand? I always thought it was GEC who have done it like in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.

Finally some quality vintage elevator content

good videos just subscribed 👌

Speaking of slip-rings, I saw marketing for a brushless DC Dyson the other day that said "No carbon brushes means no carbon emissions!" lol :)

Why is it that this one has 5 inductor switches compared to the usual 3 if it only runs at two-speed?

I’ve filmed that one! I know because of the motor. That one is nice

Spec 60VF was a product of Nippon OTIS in Japan and was widely shipped to many Asian countries between the late 1980s and mid 1990s. Didn't know that the model had made it all the way to New Zealand.

I remember back in the day no top of car inspection just a toggle stop switch and no shaft lights

Well made

So those 'steps' at the beginning when starting, is to make acceleration smoother? Seems pretty intuitive doing this with only a 2 speed AC motor.

Your videos are awesome! 😃 You'd be surprised how much I'm learning about those units you've posted on your channel. I've seen a little bit of Schindler & Otis machines around and about thanks to technicians, but your videos really do go into detail as to the inner workings of these. As I'm over the ocean in Australia, I don't have that much knowledge regarding Express lifts, for example, so it's always good to see how things vary.

A solenoid as a control point... Brilliant! We didn't need to computerize every last damn thing. That is proving to be an expensive mistake.

Massive? Thats the same size as American two-stop units, if not smaller! 😂 I've a machine that was over 2 meters tall and long, equipped with dual 50 HP motors, which operated a 12-story lift with a 5-ton capacity up to a rooftop bar. It had a flow rate of 1230 LPM and stored over 1400 liters of oil. It was a dual jack holeless roped system, and all the components were located underneath the power unit for easy maintenance. It was an MEI DT-221-TALL machine. 2019 machine, and unsurprisingly breaks down often.😂

Only worked on a triplex in London. They were on their last legs. They only ever pre opened the doors in the down direction as they overshot in the up direction and relevelled to floor. When we ripped them out and replaced them Kone SCD we found they had been running slow. They were upside down machines. Tester turned the first one up to full speed the noise of all those wheels frightened the living daylights out of the modernisation engineer.

Thanks for a good dose of nostalgia. I came out of the industry back in 2000, just after Otis destroyed Express here in the UK. I'd worked for a bunch of companies before I ended up with Express, and it was standard practice that when the company that installed a lift finally lost the service contract, they would strip the manuals and diagrams out. I built my own library of odds and sod over the years, but when I first got my hands on a proper copy of one of those red binders, I was blown away. My last few years, I was office based & one of my tasks was updating the technical data folder - taking out the obsolete pages and putting in the new. I loved reading that stuff, and the detail was amazing. I remember to this day that there was a multi-page document just dedicated to the approved way to twist together 2 electrical wires of different sizes. The sad part was that, as field engineers, we were never even told that stuff existed. Thanks for your video's and the chance to relive some old memories of when I was young and thought myself invincible 🙂

Absolutely fascinating! There are still some of these systems kicking around here in the USA but they are disappearing fast.. amazing things engineers were able to solve before microprocessors

When you get failed boards that you can't source replacements for, do you send them anywhere for component-level repair? I'm in Nelson and I've fixed a few boards in my time... none of them elevator controls though (so far)

The yellow spool in the thumbnail made me think of Casper the ghost! lol :) Just the bolts on the top kinda made it look like a face..

Are u telling me that you won't show it working 💀

Y'all have Otis series 1's in Australia?!?! Those are very common here in the US. My high school literally has 2 of them, and it's only less than a 10 minute drive from my house. One of them was installed in 1995, and the other one was installed in 1997, but you need a key to call them, which I have lol.

How did you we were all asleep 💤 only some of the time 😊🇬🇧

I love seeing the decorations in the elevator. You rarely see decorations in elevators here in the US.

I have always wondered, what do you do if you're on top of an MRL elevator, and you go up to the very top of the shaft where the motor is (like you did in the video), and it refuses to move? That just sounds scary.

I have never seen one of these before. I got sort of an idea of the function of this device, was the DC input via the output of the MG set? Sounds like a more advanced leveling field found in the controller of high rise DC gear-less machines.

door drive?

Nice equipment

Like that the original architect though ahead, and put the beams for a crawler crane in there, along with an actual access for lifting up lift gear as well, making your work so much easier when doing upgrades or cable replacement. guess they built out one shaft first, as a way to allow the rest to be lifted up without making a tower crane spend days lifting stuff up for the rest. Guess J was first, probably used as good lift now, seeing as the others are identical but different controllers.

I really appreciate all your videos, but my neck and heart hurts now enormously. I suggest to take more care to recording and to review the video before uploading.

Cuantos y cuantos recuerdos de mis años pasados en esa Empresa Otis.

My neck is a bit crooked now ;-)

Very solid like it’s old employees😂😂😂

Why does the pump run when going down? Hydraulic elevators don't do that.

That doesn't sound like it's hydraulic to me.

The only place I ever personally saw something like that was in the Spanish embassy in London and of course they got away with it because it was on foreign soil

If i renember correctly its a WaygoodOtis and is branded on the doorhandle got in there about 10 years ago for a quick ride

Wonder how these pumps act when low on oil with them being so tiny

We invented the the belt system and the safety gear where? Would the world be without Otis 😂😂

Oooh that looks and sounds cheap and nasty from the ninties.

How did so many Italian lifts end up in New Zealand?

Why I'm doing here?

Building and elevator look like a typical Kruschev era soviet building. The lifts in those are hilarious. You can make them bounce.