Epic Westbrook geared traction Elevator with Machine Room Tour

[@mrmattandmrchay]

I like it when people film the route to the machine rooms, like that hatch with the ladder that ends short :) Great vid

[@keith800]

Just love that old panel ,and the whooop noise as the elevator starts up.

[@ThomasHermans]

love the sound of those motors winding up

[@RODALCO2007]

Love to see that old equipment. It is made to last. Probably 60 years old or more. New stuff may only last 10 years when the electronics fail.

[@seanjuth]

Technology that just works

[@DDR_Aufzuege]

Hello, very nice old elevator. Thank you for uploading. MfG Jan

[@N617A]

YES!!!!!!!!!!! my favorite elevator on youtube!!!! and the 3rd video of it! thank you mister dieselducy!!! hey and when i head that way (don't know when yet) could you possibly get me in to see it? that would be epiiiiic!!!!!!

[@cphonda420]

Great videos. I have been watching many of them. You would love my job. I have been working for Otis Elevator in Boston Massachusetts for the past 9 years. Love my job. Great to see people like you. Keep up with the videos.

[@tomahawkseven]

Great vid. Love old tech

[@Crispychicken156]

Hi diesel ducy! I recently found your elevator vids and can't get enough. You really need to explore the elevators in europe.

[@251Aloha]

Very nice old elevator.

[@jamesnguyen6605]

When TheElevatorChannel are coming back to St. Louis?

[@intercity200cfr8]

Super classic Lift!

[@HungryGuyStories]

I wonder why it has a stop button (I don't mean the power switch you used) if you need to hold the black buttons in to make it move?

[@seanjuth]

Its one of three ways the elevator can stop in case of an emergency

[@Tigrou7777]

I think how it works is that you press either up or down button, release it. It will move and stop automatically when it reach new floor. By holding button you make sure you don't stop at each floor.

[@svenni99]

nice machine romm!

[@Cmbgo98]

Nice Led Zeppelin(?) in the backround there. Instantly made this awesome video even better somehow...

[@kierenmgp]

does manually control elevators sorta "jigger" when you pull the lever?

[@shaunsandhu9151]

awesome machinery

[@kmbfanofpacman]

is matt also known as faxplane?

[@elevatorfan-cq1su]

is that elevator still there and original?

[@gparyani]

What about elevators without inner doors?

[@ashwantnaidu9888]

how does a manual elevator work with up and down handle rotary handle. Does it have a motor does it not have one

[@twmax4137]

as simple as elevators get

[@kiritodorito7840]

How old is the elevator and the motor

[@blueauraretriever]

Kirito Dorito 9999999999999999999999999999999999 years old

[@cameliabarbu9378]

I think is an 1980s elevator and motor

[@benkl9377]

Nice!

[@ELPaso1990TX]

The relay control system looks very simple compared to other elevators how have they made it so simple? Many elevators have like thousands of relays and moving floor selector carriages. Really great video :)

[@miketurner315]

There are no floor selector carriages in this one. One button goes up, other button goes down, that's it, can't get much more simple than that LOL.

[@upanddownadventures]

"In order to be a passenger elevator it must have a solid inner door." This confuses me. If this is true, ANY scissor-gate elevator is now legally a freight elevator, even if installed and still used as a passenger elevator? If so, does this mean building owners can get in trouble for using scissor-gate elevators for passengers?

[@blueauraretriever]

upanddownadventures I think that's totally unfair as gated lifts have so much more character FRIRND

[@ELEVEGASBY]

how did you which its at?

[@Followerofchrist2091]

Cool

[@tonypino2858]

Wouw super video

[@RodgerMudd]

Not to many people comment here for a 10 year period. you now have 351 likes

[@mattmoreira210]

"It's geared traction." Don't tell me! I thought it was a MRL!

[@22408aaron]

Why shouldn't there be a no rider sign?

[@kansasthunderman1]

That's a nice old fashioned Westbrook traction machine. However if the elevator is modernized or the entire building is demolished, too many of them wind up being scrapped. Someone should build a museum to collect and display these relics.

[@exoticcar5482]

Dieselducy already has a massive collection of parts from elevators like this in his museum and he may plan to so something like that in the future with the right funding

[@stvpls]

+ElevatorMan5482 ElevExperiencing Productions is a nice idea to get the entire equipment instead of parts only

[@gparyani]

Yes, but I have ridden on a passenger elevator with gated doors on both sides, and it was auto controlled.

[@KevinBenecke]

You forgot to record the governor moving.

[@LiftEnthusiast2020OFFTOPIC]

They should put absoloutely no riders signs on the elevator doors and on the sides of the basic cab 17:40

[@ゼンデイヤの平らなお尻]

"Faxplane" is Nick, Andrew's stepson.

[@TheElevatorPlanet]

Wow.

[@N617A]

On that controller it goes like this: The contactor on the left of the screen should be for the brake. (Contactor comes on brake releases.) The 2 on the right side of the screen are the up and down. When the down button is pressed the bottom contactor goes in and the top one stays put. But when he brought it back up the top one went in and the bottom one stayed put. The "Final limit switch" I think is actually inside the shaft and once the elevator crosses it, it shuts the contactors for the brake and the direction it's going off. It seems to me that the door locks are also not operated via a separate controller but are also dealt with inside of the shaft. The reason you see 3 contactors here instead of a million is because of the manual control. It doesn't need a relay for each floor, Shaft tape or a... As I call "Disk reader" to tell what floor it is on. It just passes the final limit switch and each contactor that's on shuts off and will only go in the opposite direction. Also the relays now adays run signals to the door motor, The lights in the cab (if applicable), Up calls, Down calls etc... etc... In some cases I believe relays even run signals to contactors for the bigger motors. But I may be incorrect on that one. I would rather work on an elevator like this switch gear (Want to be an elevator mechanic. Knowledge is still a bit limited on the subject though.) than a collective selective. (I am sure dieselducy knows all of this. I am just commenting my thoughts on it.)

[@TheTheo58]

Down at the bottom to the left of the controller board is the phase reserving relay. The motor is a 3 Phase AC with 3 stator fields, 3 hot conductors. The relay reserves the phasing of two of two conductors i.e. black to red which controls the direction the motor turns for up and down. The relay cuts out when the floor landing is reached.

[@ゼンデイヤの平らなお尻]

Poor Nick, nary a mention of his KZbin moniker. Nevertheless, cool tour.

[@bountyhunter4885]

Party on the lower level, before the basement. 🎶👯

[@seanjuth]

Lol not nick trying to film

[@TheElevatorPlanet]

You need to do some serious research on Elevators man. Especially if your going to comment like that.

[@douro20]

Geared traction, with VERY heavy gearing...and an AC motor.

[@22408aaron]

Um, what?

[@harrysmith8955]

whoooooooouuu

[@UmbreWolf]

It limits the speed of the elevator car from going too fast.

[@douro20]

LU/LA elevators don't have to.

[@thomasnirtrainmannorton3254]

What is there to like about them, They just go up and down. LOOK AT THOSE FIXTURES LOL. AND NO I WON'T stfu

[@donalddavis581]

see the box the brake coil is in..... 99.999% sure you can bet that's full of PCB oil.

[@nickgrant9577]

Shorts, no safety shoes, no gloves, glasses don't look like safety glasses...... Lick your finger and touch the controller so see if it's on while you're in there...

[@blueauraretriever]

Nicky Bang Bang I will

[@caecarnevskis]

hight tecnology in 1940

[@Pyro.Technic.801]

slow much

[@N617A]

yea well when you're getting laid you just go up and down. but i don't suppose you call that boring. NAH! argument's invalid and cannot be revalidated nor accepted. move along.

[@thomasnirtrainmannorton3254]

lol elevators how boring