OLD OTIS ALERT!!

[@stillnessintime]

The little "ding!" is so cute!

[@idl3k_elev]

Awesome vintage lift! Here in Indonesia it's extremely RARE to find 60s or 70s OTIS lifts but fortunately there are around three still surviving but sadly one has been left abandoned. One of my friends managed to film one high-rise vintage OTIS complete original from 1976!

[@dylanreischling4151]

I love the bell when you get to your floor. Old lifts are better

[@kevinmurphy-steele5055]

The Otis bell has such a distinctive sound.

[@Tomsonic41]

When I was a kid I used to visit Leeds University (where my father worked) and they had this kind of Otis lift. It was very common for the rubber cups to move out of place causing the lamp to faintly shine through the adjacent number as well - not to mention the bulb for a certain floor failing! In later years the lift developed a fault - it would ALWAYS stop at floor 3 on the way up or down, regardless of whether you selected it or not!

[@DieselElevators]

In the US, almost all old Otis elevators have the red/green filters for the arrows. Don't know how most are over there, but in the video you said it was strange. Here it's not.

[@hospitalitytaylor]

Love the noises it made from the shaft, great vid!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Bon Ron Thanks :) Yeah if you look at my "death of a lift" video and see the original video this one... kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZa7gGxpatKebKc see 5:10 then it sounds similar to this one :)

[@sgstuff1152]

location was Northwick Park Hospital

[@RapidAssistant]

Love the old 60s Otis lifts with the big black buttons, the "press to descend/ascend" script and that bell of course!! They dont make em like they used to!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+RapidAssistant Yep, but captured on youtube for when they have all been removed :)

[@jimster586]

Fantastic find! I've been on many OTIS elevators with the red and green arrows.

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+jimster586 cool :)

[@Shinpew]

Out of curiosity, is it youtubes "automatically stabilize video" option thing that makes the corners and sides go wild in this video or is it some other reason? That bothered me so much, but I assume it would've been very shaky and not great if it wasn't like that?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Hiya, nope, that's my previous editing software making a mess of stabilising my wide angle camera! This was actually a dash-cam I was using here and didn't have any built-in stablisation! I don't like the youtube stabilisation - it makes the video "sway" too much and also I cannot apply my watermark logo in the corner, as that would keep moving. For all my latest videos, I use Adobe Premiere which does a much better job :)

[@ow3nc]

hmmmm.... is it me, or are you using a PivotHead camera (or something very similar) for this video? :) Very nice lift as usual!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Ow3n Lifts It's an Innovv C2 (google it) and is really my dash cam! Comes in very useful for covert filming which together with it's wide angle view (which I love) it's cool! Only problems with it is no built-in stabilisation and mono mic!

[@dennismervynpublictranspor7688]

Nice video mate. I love all lifts theyre wonderful

[@ccityplanner1217]

If it's been modernised that is the best modernisation I've ever seen. It should win an award.

[@Clement-xy9iv]

yes it is ! But still... any mod, is a fucking mod (old lifts are the most efficient and easy to maintain). But if all the lifts could be modernized like this... it could be nice!

[@johngriff914]

The fact that there is a generator tells me this elevator has not been modded. Plus the doors are too jerky for the operator to be new.

[@NovioSites]

Great video, a lovely lift and a very nice building!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+NovioSites Thanks :)

[@carenamacomber434]

why are some elevator doors white and scraped up but others are shiny? is that like a cover so that the doors don't get dinged up by passengers?

[@johnhudson8279]

Must have a dodgy PIC brush for the indicator to flick on like that

[@lewiemcneely9143]

You need a ladder you can hide in your pocket. Nice building and another good video!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Lewie McNeely Hmmmm, might have been noticed getting up there though :) That's just the equipment hoisting access panel. The actual entrance is on the roof.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Maybe a trampoline??

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Your option. You know what's needed better than I.

[@yannimalan2277]

Lewie McNeely ehughjjjj

[@woodsmic]

100,000 views of an old lift. Well done Sir!

[@dykodesigns]

Never thought that these indicator panels use resin in the digits and arrows. That's quite interresting. I must say, as an structural engineer I quite like design of that building.

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+dykodesigns2yt Hi, I have a few old Otis panels now, and they are all the same. You can imagine exactly how they drilled out the digits in the sheet metal, put the resin (if that's what it is?) through the holes, then probably filed and polished the "good" side so that on the front the resin sits flush into the digits. I'm going to do another video of these in my GLOW OR BLOW game show which is going to take forever to edit lol

[@peterlomas984]

+mrmattandmrchay Nothing as complicated as that Matt, the inserts coloured or just off white were a bog standard Otis part which you ordered from the local branch office. They were mainly RED for down arrows or GREEN for up arrows. You just removed the old or broken insert the replaced it with a new one using a bit of glue. They usually needed a small amount of filing to get them to fit.

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

Love the shaft noises!! Have you met lots of Hammond & Champness lifts? Habit the ultra rare Dover in England?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Knuckles the Echidna I used to know the location of loads of H+C lifts. The H+C/Dover comparison I think are the same lift with same fittings. Benobve has a few on his channel (e.g. "the windsor H+C") but now there is only one location I can think of which is one of my videos - however it's not the "classic H+C" that I know more of a generic mod in a block of flats (see my "defeated by the gerda lock" video). I havem't seen a classic H+C for many years now.

[@liftrailphotographyinnz3992]

I love your videos heaps Matt. I reckon if you keep this up one day you will be big.

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Cool thanks for your comment. Although, yes, I suppose I would like my channel to get a much better following, but I'm happy with the way it is now. Next video is the plant room vid which has taken me 3 months to edit, plus a couple of lift videos. I have three really cool lift videos after that one, but I don't have much time to edit recently so I'm working on lots of things. My channel is all about quality over quantity so I do spend a lot of time editing before uploading. Thanks once again.

[@liftrailphotographyinnz3992]

mrmattandmrchay I already subscribed.

[@Coolkeys2009]

Looks like they paid a bit extra for that lift, how smooth was it?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Coolkeys2009 I was expecting a "jerk" from fast to slow speed, but it was as smooth as any modern day lift, hence I gave it a 5/10 "scary" rating - not scary enough LOL!

[@Coolkeys2009]

mrmattandmrchay You did say it had a motor generator(mechanical variable speed drive :-) Some of the older lifts are surprisingly fast smooth and refined.

[@dogukanalpguven3992]

Coolkeys2009 kll

[@NiffyYT]

It’s been slightly modded with LED sensors which is good although odd for an old lift as it could be modded soon

[@peterlomas984]

Watching those doors operate i would think that a 6970 door operator is fitted and the door open damper needs screwing in a bit to prevent slamming during the opening cycle.

[@SummerADDE_Elevators]

Ohh! That's A beuty! I remember riding a few of theese in Copenhagen back in 2013. Sadly, they have been modded, I've been told. I have never seen one in Stockholm, exept for an abandoned gated elevator with theese callfixtures. (It has been modded as well since)

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+ADDEs Transporting Adventures! Thanks! Glad it's survived. I would like to see the motor room though!

[@ag6371]

Was the rooftop access door locked?

[@WestCoastElevators]

It's a shame you couldn't get access to the machine room, but what a beautiful vintage elevator! It looks like the only thing replaced here were the bumpers.

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+WestCoast Elevators Yeah I noticed that also. But still, still lamps not LEDs so it's before the 80s and all good!

[@denvervlogs1236]

Did you check the tower was their an old lift their?

[@RealityAnomaly]

Awesome! Shame we couldn't get to see inside the LMR, but a nice vintage lift either way! *Gets ready for the GLOW OR BLOW game show*

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Joseph Marsden (Cryosim) yeah, it was roof access and there was not an obvious stairwell that went up to it. I'm filming glow or blow this weekend, but I've got lots of ideas to put on it so might be a while before it's ready for upload :)

[@RealityAnomaly]

haha, looking forward to it! :P

[@ag6371]

More like 1960s. 1970s would mostly have buttons with a halo

[@Emma-zk5dd]

Would the spooky rating get higher if the cab was original and there were not them LED lights in the door sensors?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

lol, probably! It would require a few more scrapes and squeaks as well.

[@MichaelAScott124]

Fantastic video. Well done.

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Michael A Scott cool thanks Michael :)

[@VintageLiftLad]

I love Brutalist buildings and I love old Otii...so this video is definitely a winner!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+sausageroll95 cool thanks.

[@ANDREWWALLFORD123]

Excellent video, but is scary for this elevator!

[@alloria]

Looks great, but did you have to film it with a potato?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+alloria Sometimes I have to film discretely which is much easier with my Innovv C2 and it's hardly noticeable. I did have my usual camera with me, but there are times where you can and cannot use it. The C2 you can stand next to someone and they won't notice. My Sony on the other hand is obvious!! Not sure they would like me filming here which is why I was very careful. I do like the wide angle of the C2, but it has no stablisation which means that Adobe After Effects does the best it can to stab it.

[@LiftEnthusiast2020OFFTOPIC]

What a beautiful old elevator

[@elirussell5940]

There’s an old otis in shanklin court in Hangleton with original logic and it’s bottom drive but the logic is at the top.

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Excellent, thanks for the heads up!

[@elirussell5940]

@@mrmattandmrchaycam you pls make a video of it

[@mrmattandmrchay]

@@elirussell5940 If I'm down that way then I'll take a look, not sure when though

[@elirussell5940]

@@mrmattandmrchay ok. There are plenty of good lifts around Brighton and Hove you should look in the small buildings used as flats because the large blocks of flats have modernised lifts mostly

[@PAelevators]

Congrats on 5k subscribers

[@jessicabunting8333]

PAelevators h

[@dylanreischling4151]

where my father works his office has a lift and when ever your going from a higher floor to the ground floor it makes a squeak noise or a grinding noise its really wierd

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Sounds good to me :) At the top and bottom of the shaft are roller switches. As the lift gets to the top or bottom, the lift car pushes these switches in. There are rollers on these switches which sometimes make these squeaky noises.Would be interesting to know if it happens anywhere else, or just the top and bottom - this would confirm my theory! :)

[@dylanreischling4151]

next time i will press floor 3 the top floor and then go to the ground floor and see if it makes noises. sometimes it does it and sometimes it does not some times its really quiet and sometimes its loud. you never know what its going to do. Is it a bad idea to go down a lift when a storm that might make the power go out is going on???

[@quyanh10]

Cool!

[@VauxhallViva1975]

I love the old lift alert at 0:21 !!! :D

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+VauxhallViva1975 Thanks haha! That actually took a couple of hours to track the corners of the building in each frame in order to put that title on it :) Good practice though! Sometimes things take ages, but it keeps up my editing experiences!

[@VauxhallViva1975]

+mrmattandmrchay I'm sure I was not the only one to like that effect. ;) I also note you faded the alert sound-effect as you moved further away from it - nice touch. :)

[@alec4672]

They seriously couldn't have centered that "max load" plaque when they updated it to metric? Just a 1/16th of an inch to the right (1.5mm I think).

[@sussyamogusbaka69420steamyshit]

It sounds like a lift from scp contaiment breach

[@Goasler]

i love lifts and your channel :-D more please

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Goasler Thanks for your comment :) Not sure what the next video is at the moment as I still have to edit something. It will possibly be called "SCARY LIFT" as I went in one that was OMG really scary!!

[@AWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA]

hey it's me again, the person who is afraid of elevators, your vids are awesome, especially the risky video thing, are you a professional at elevators?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Brandon Medrano Hi Brandon. I'm hoping my Q&A will help you here and thanks for the kind comment :) See Q9...kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWGqq3eLmdCfiLs and see Q33... kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZnKpnujetKDfMk Hope this explains everything :)

[@AWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA]

Thanks

[@theeye2661]

That elevator has got to be from the 80s

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Yep but perhaps earlier. Probably 70s

[@guymadgesam24]

I LOVE your channel and videos, because lifts are fun and interesting.

[@guymadgesam24]

great video btw

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Hey, thanks for your comments :) I don't upload that often, but I've normally spent a lot of time on the videos that I do upload and glad you find them interesting. Thanks once again, Matt

[@guymadgesam24]

+mrmattandmrchay Thanks for the reply. It's good to know that youtubers like you actually spend time to reply.

[@alejandracolin3699]

Guy yo

[@BossCoins2]

Guy beans

[@upanddownadventures]

You own a vintage Otis indicator?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+upanddownadventures Yep - I have a couple and I'm going to feature then in my up-and-coming "GLOW OR BLOW" game show lol! :)

[@upanddownadventures]

mrmattandmrchay Do you have any other elevator parts that you haven't shown in videos? Where did you get these, and the Express Lifts selector from?

[@barryj5243]

hi matt that is a good one I like that I am like you when it comes to old lifts but they are getting very hard to find these days I like the doors the way they close fast then slow I am hopefully going to put some lift videos on but as I say they are getting very hard to come by are you doing anymore I hope so

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+barry d If I find one, then I will try and film it (or even come back and film it). But as you say - not easy to find them these days. I do write to property companies to get into derelict buildings with permission, but I ALWAYS get the same reply - in fact here is a copy and paste from one such email "My apologies that you have not been replied to previously. Unfortunately the building is due for demolition next month and we are unable to let the public enter due to safety reasons." BUT I TRY :)

[@barryj5243]

+mrmattandmrchay hi matt that's good to know I do very much like watching your videos very interesting as I said in the last reply I have been intrested in lifts but when it comes to getting footage of them and there's other people in them I get funny looks as if to say what are you doing it puts me off then of course you have the cctv years ago there wasn't anything like that before so I will just have to watch what I am doing as for the replying to me it's fine keep the videos coming if you can look forward to seeing some more especially motor room's

[@ImTheSquid11]

What about the garage?

[@dngunder]

Oh yeah! I've seen one! Also with red and green! It was here in Norway, at Stortinget metro station. Sadly, it has been ripped out...

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+gutteboy cool, but then not cool (ripped out :( )

[@dngunder]

i know, i think it got ripped out in around 2007 i think

[@jfwfreo]

I wish I could find black button Otis in my town but basically all the old Otis elevators have been horribly modded. I do know of at least one place that still has Otis Lexan though so that's good...

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Which town are you from? I agree that it's very difficult to find them now.

[@jfwfreo]

I am in Brisbane, Australia. Old lifts are hard to find but there are still a few gems out there. Mostly its (ugh) Dewhurst though (unless its something new like Kone KDS on a Kone Ecodisc or something). The Otis Lexan I know of has been modernized (call stations replaced with Dewhurst and an additional Dewhurst car station added). The Dover Oildraulic I found a while back is close to original (had a large car station, a smaller car station and call stations all of which were Dover Impulse. Larger car station and call stations are still Dover Impulse but the smaller car station has again been replaced with Dewhurst). What is it with transit operators and Dewhurst anyway? (I know of an Otis Gen2 that originally had Otis buttons but got replaced with Dewhurst)

[@dorajoseph6263]

at pearlidge there was thyysnkrupp Dover's over there

[@jblsound13]

Where is this?

[@pcuser80]

Strange pattern 3 4 6? Floor 5 is not reachable?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+pcuser80 Hi, It's just the way the floors line up with the adjacent building, else the floors wouldn't make sense - i.e. you'd leave this building on floor 3, then go across the walkway and be on floor 6 in the next building :)

[@afnusa]

What happened to floors 1, 2, and 5?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

This was a lift within a building on a slope. So some areas of the building are lower than others. In this 'top' building, the 3rd floor lines up with the building next to it. Unless you were to go underground, the Gnd floor will not line up with the next building

[@EWPA14]

Oh, I think quite a few of us know where this is! (NPH)

[@leew21]

Unusual sign there, no dry ice allowed in the lift!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

oh yes...!

[@johngriff914]

Because dry ice is carbon dioxide and would build up in the confined space of a lift. Causing passengers to pass out

[@SamSitar]

3,4,6. where are the other floors? hoistway noises are fun. 3,4,6 again. second lift is quieter.

[@SummerADDE_Elevators]

+Sam Sitar second lift? it is the same lift!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+ADDEs Transporting Adventures! Hi, It's just the way the floors line up with the adjacent building, else the floors wouldn't make sense - i.e. you'd leave this building on floor 3, then go across the walkway and be on floor 6 in the next building :) And, there was only one lift, I went into the basement to show you the same lift from the basement.

[@willy.william4582]

Love the Bell

[@AUTISTICLYCAN]

I can answer the red and green filter arrows question. In the United States a very old elevator convention held that GREEN indicated UP and RED indicated down. Green things like plants grow UP and well HELL's fire was DOWN! That is how you can often detect an old elevator system in the USA. If you see the GREEN = UP and RED = DOWN arrow indicator convention used in an elevator it was designed pre-1970's from the 1960's or earlier. Today the convention in the USA seems to be RED still = DOWN and White = UP. Some federal buildings have new elevators that still use the old GREEN = UP \ RED = DOWN indicator convention. KONE elevators still like the green up red down. Green=Up \ Red=Down was big soon after the first automatic elevators came online. Lots of that has gone away with the digital revolution. There really is no conventions to speak of now.

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+Canis Lupus cool very interesting reply. Never thought of it as green/grass...red/hell lol

[@hondacivicboy2172]

I ride elevator sometime I love otis lifts Thank you Mrmattandmrchay

[@dumdum7786]

Intro song?

[@TransportationFanHU]

This is bringing in signal

[@Morgansliftadventures]

Where is this at?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Northwick Park hospital

[@cool-stuff-and-more8641]

0:02 - 0:05 goofy ahh song

[@calvinhengwuify]

transformice

[@TheLeathersmoke]

Why start from 3 ? And 5??

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+giankiba Hi, It's just the way the floors line up with the adjacent building, else the floors wouldn't make sense - i.e. you'd leave this building on floor 3, then go across the walkway and be on floor 6 in the next building :)

[@ktnnatta4596]

Otis

[@TransportationFanHU]

Bing..... Lol

[@baystateelevators5379]

100th like :D

[@MrOpenGL]

First! Great video as always!!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+MrOpenGL You were first this time, well done and thanks for watching :)

[@SAMIEWALLFORD756]

Look like death trap of door opening... Is pretty suddenly scare of this elevator!!!

[@calvinhengwuify]

lol

[@dadler9705]

I love brutalism