A look around a 1987 OTIS machine room.

NEVER enter an elevator machine room without permission and supervision!

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Those machines use a "Long Wrap" rope configuration.

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One of those seems to travel much faster than the other. They also take forever to level.

[@jimster586]

+N.E.A. Elevators The slower one is larger and doubles as a service elevator.