Reasons why Portsmouth is crap and should be avoided

[@ZLDSmogless]

Could you make a playlist of "Beno rants" ?

[@AndysTransport]

Would love that

[@zaydfadil5431]

I could make one

[@railworksamerica]

I’ll do that

[@TheDragonFire123]

Those main library lift indicators are actually also Kone Novel Elements LED dot matrix indicators. You can tell because of the font for -1; the 1 has a very distinctive font that sets it apart from NewLift. The double arrow isn't unique to NewLift, either; this indicator also supports it.

[@spykillergames8402]

the irony is the modern VF will never outlive the old relay logic it replaces....sure VF can do any speed but relays go "thud-chunk-thud" :)

[@therealvbw]

Personally I don't see which part of this is exceptionally bad compared to the rest of the UK.. oh well! I assume you're mainly disappointed about the Otis replacements. There's still an Otis 2000 in Gunwharf Quays, tucked away near the restaurant area, and rarely used. I got some great SFX recordings from that, and I'm sure it would have been ideal to film. No CCTV either. You missed a gold mine there!

[@benolifts]

I guess the problem is that I have travelled so much around the world, it just makes most towns and cities in the UK seem dull by comparison. I hope this doesn't offend people from Portsmouth but here is my explanation of why I was not impressed by Portsmouth.... The UK really lacks interesting places. In fact it is quicker to give a list of places that are not crap than places that are. The places that are not crap are... London, Birmingham, Manchester (Deansgate only), Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Reading, Brighton, Eastbound, Cardiff, Bristol, IOW, southend. All other UK towns and cities are lacking in my opinion. While this may sound harsh, with the amount I have travelled around the world, it makes bog standard British places seem very underwhelming. The problem with Portsmouth is how bad it is for its size. If I was to say what the most crap town in the UK without regards to size, then it would be some boring little town where nothing happens (e.g. Sittingbourne). But what I don't like about Portsmouth is for how big it is, there is very little of interest there. Has to be one of the most dull places of its size. The other place that is very dull for its size is Manchester which is surprisingly empty of interest for a big city, but at least Manchester has the Deansgate towers which are nice. As for the tucked away Otis lift, I went in it, but I didn't film it. The shopping center just felt very small scale to me. It is just that I am used to big spectacular places such as South Quay (London), Dubai, Benidorm, Hong Kong, Warsaw, Poznan, Paris, Brussels, Sofia etc. These places have put in effort into them. But even places that are not so well developed can be interesting such as Katowice which is very spread out and is mainly countryside, but has a huge extensive tram network. The UK never invests in making amazing places. And in Portsmouth they tried to invest in something for the city, the Spinnaker tower, but it is just pathetic. If Portsmouth was in China it would have lots of high rise apartments with interesting lifts. If Portsmouth was in Poland, the city would have at least 6 tram lines going through it. If Portsmouth was in Germany it would have a smaller tram system in the center that connects onto the mainline in a TramTrain system taking people from nearby areas straight into the city streets without changing. But in the UK Portsmouth is under developed with nothing of interest to it.

[@wisteela]

@@benolifts Great to see Nottingham on that list. I can also recommend Worcester.

[@ccityplanner1217]

Portsmouth was useful for me when visiting the Island Tube for the class 483s. In February 2020 when I was planning a trip to Spain I went to Portsmouth to visit the Brittany Ferries shipping office to book passage to Bilbao, a ticket not sold on their website. They were no help, attempting to book using the website, which returned "crossing full" 50 days in advance, because the way it's set up is that rather than simply not selling it, they just input to the booking engine that the number of tickets it's allowed to sell for this route is 0. On a later trip, I ended up stranded in a suburb of Caen at 11pm because they weren't taking foot passengers on the route from there, despite this not being clear on their website (again, they just set the number of tickets available to 0 in the booking engine's code because they're lazy).

[@OmarExplains]

How dare you diss my hometown -_- I'm Saudi and I'm offended.

[@garthgurglebelly08834]

12:46 “cunt elevator service” made me laugh

[@simonstergaard]

this channel is nothing without your speedy squeaky voice... keep it up !

[@europa2000man]

If only the old Tricorn Centre was still there, then there would be something to see in Portsmouth

[@Techno-Universal]

What’s always been interesting is that Pickerings seemingly specialised in designing and building strange and unconventional lifts for strange and unconventional buildings that needed them! :)

[@reececollison5101]

Other than the crap lifts, don’t get the hate for Portsmouth in this video. Went in Portsmouth last year, one of my favourite cities I’ve been to in the UK, I’d move there tomorrow

[@DISCOPlayz]

Yea I really hate Kleemen

[@LemoncloudGT]

I don’t mind kleemen lifts I like the voice in their lifts

[@nikkivarain537]

You slammed your ✋ on the security camera on the elevator

[@wdowa94]

Kleemann elevators are really good if serviced by good technician

[@benolifts]

In your dreams they might be

[@wdowa94]

@@benolifts All but relays is good in Kleemann (2017+ year). Compared to KONE or OTIS elevators they are simple and armoured xD

[@benolifts]

Aren't the relays those cheap tiny ones that are soldered onto the board, so when one fails the entire board gets replaced.

[@wdowa94]

@@benolifts That's the 'Serviced by good technician' part... Engineer would change whole logic board and drive because of relay failure ;) And yes- Those small Finder ones- Mostly orange series (At least in Poland)

[@ccityplanner1217]

When bashing through Portsmouth, one has to make note of which station to change at for the best mileage. Go too far, & you might cost yourself an hour.

[@JacksonWilll]

How come Otis no longer make Otis 2000’s?

[@westburnworld]

Otis 2000 got succeeded by Otis Gen2

[@gabrielstravels]

Portsmouth is nice imo. If anything Southampton is somewhere I don't like

[@jdtayloruk]

Spinnaker tower does have a nice cafe on the first floor. Although it is a mess as you have to use the lift for the upper floors as it’s the one lift there. The outside lift,I believe was maspero the same company as the millennium bridge when it had those significant problems. I believe it’s been removed as part of improvements to that area. The pedestrian tunnel in Newcastle, they’ve never got working so far. Although checked later this year.

[@UkrTrashRemix]

00:00 this is the best video intro I've ever heard

[@Bombiedude.]

5:44 These also remind me of that video you did over 11 years ago at that olympic area somewhere in london or whatever where they had the temporary mcdonnalds and acer structure because those were kind of like kits where they could put them up quick with no digging required and then they take them down easy well those fell into a similar side to these where they didnt install anything good because aparentlly that was too much to ask for in a temporary structure

[@Bombiedude.]

Exept the only difference is these are not temporary theyre perminent ones with the acception of probably gonna get modded a bunch of times

[@Bombiedude.]

And infact these are probably so cheap they probably make evil owls garbage seem somewhat better

[@AndysTransport]

Is this your normal voice or adapted on a app Love your videos especially the rants

[@otiselevatorfan726]

It amazes me with how cheap these areas are and how there can be such elevators/lifts that are such extremely cheap pieces of dog-shit tin cans that are just absolutely disgraceful.

[@levigaming-1]

There’s some pickerings at Huntingdon station on the ECML

[@benolifts]

Aren't those lift the standard generic design of station lift

[@levigaming-1]

yup

[@jamiemunds4891]

what did the pickerings lift use to be?

[@SRN42069]

100m is still high since I've never really been to a city before.

[@benolifts]

100 meters is not high for me. Also, anything less than 130 meters usually has an MRL lift nowadays. So for me, modern buildings only get interesting when they are over 130 meters.

[@cat1554]

13:31 Oh, now I'm interested in your collection.

[@nakedflames]

best video title of all time

[@msjacksshipsadventures8382]

Plymouth ferry port has an old lift

[@ghostygaming32]

About Kleenman lifts , my work got on of them, and yes keeps breaking down

[@serbianelevators]

Same thing happened to Daka lifts, they used to make absolutely epic lifta back in the 1970's but now they turned into a company that only installs generic parts

[@AlexL13487]

I’m slowly losing interest In lifts, in Northern Ireland we had a great lift brand but Kone bought them in 2001 and killed them off. Now all the good, interesting and extremely reliable lifts installed by the old brand are slowly being replaced with shitty Raloes or modded into some cheap shit by Thyssenkrupp.

[@benolifts]

I am also loosing interest in lifts slowly. In the past I would go to a typical crap town center and would search every shop and building in the hope of finding an old lift. 5 hours of searching would usually end up with finding 3 relay controlled lifts and 5 other interesting lifts. But nowadays I lost the inspiration to even look. Nowadays often 5 hours of searching will lead to 0 relay controlled lifts and 1 other interesting lift. Also I just find towns in the UK boring. I am used to visiting interesting places abroad, and also visiting tall skyscrapers. The crappy little shopping centers and town centers just feel rubbish to me now. As for modern lifts, most of them are crap generics, or base model MRLs. Even brands I like such as Kone, their bottom of the range lifts feel dull, such as the NMX07. With modern lifts I only find big powerful goods lifts or high speed lifts of interest. But even them I only find Mitsubishi, Kone and Schindler interesting, and I have seen all of these many times. There is little left for me to now enjoy in terms of lifts. I often get people asking me to film the lifts in the crappy little town that they live in, and I feel awkward, as I know that 10 years ago I would have found this interesting, but I don't anymore.

[@urgentkestrel7990]

If I’m correct the Otis 2000 is still a proper traction lift not an MRL?

[@benolifts]

Otis 2000 is a traction lift with 2:1 cabling with a motor room. Otis don't install Otis 2000 lifts anymore. For the last 10 years there has been a trend of moving everything to MRL (even in situations where an MRL is not appropriate). High rise lifts are the only lifts installed today that are not MRL.

[@Andrewjg_89]

Yeah I find Portsmouth bit boring but still it’s a nice place. Gosport ain’t got much where my Nanna used to live and Gosport is deprived except for some parts of Gosport that is quite nice.

[@Noo-Noo7950]

Who Actually Manufactures The Scotts Voice Boards?

[@melbournetransport15]

4:58 you might say that type is nice, but in Australia where its literally everywhere, its really not.

[@nikkivarain537]

Sound like somebody screaming in the Elevator shaft

[@josephhughes1498]

As someone from the North I think Portsmouth is really decent, better than Southampton by a mile.

[@Darknecros7]

Looks like the evil owl has taken over there. Lots of generics and companies that just throw the parts together and install them. I miss the old ones that have the relay logic, which are getting harder to find as time passes on.

[@shadowstransport8412]

I just got back from there it is decent with the dock other than that it’s pretty thuggish

[@domi9322]

Was ist deine meinung zur Schweiz was aufzüge und Infrastruktur angeht?

[@nikkivarain537]

It is the s [_] hole you're right

[@declangaming24]

The town might be rubbish but the football team is ok

[@bakedbeanishdragon]

Did the Tesco Chatham lifts have the scots voice also?

[@benolifts]

They had Digital lift controls voice before the Otis mod

[@neptuneproductions8083]

😮 The Fun Fair in Portsmouth [Southsea] (Clarence Pier) is a nice place to go and has some high thriller rides + roller coasters, I sailed Saint Malo from Portsmouth via Brittany Ferries via Portsmouth International Port.

[@nikkivarain537]

I think the doors screamy the elevator doors screaming not you it's not you it's so funny f_____ funny watch this elevator door The scream f_____ hilarious

[@nikkivarain537]

Yeah you have to serve Elevator see what's wrong with it Sophia's whole elevator is crappy hole maybe. Company could be shame

[@ADEmusics]

i've never been so glad to live in southampton and not portsmouth.

[@Ed-ws1xe]

You had me at the intro 0:03 😂😂

[@mushroomcraft]

7:34 that got me

[@nikkivarain537]

Okay so thank you for BENO awful tearing all the story

[@KLEF710]

That Scotts voice sounds very similar to the old drucegrove voice.

[@benolifts]

It sounds similar

[@nikkivarain537]

Over the Portsmouth schedule for 50 years

[@millercool21]

Only go to Portsmouth if your going to gunwarf quays

[@LiftsinEurope]

Good Video Beno

[@nikkivarain537]

You f___ that elevator company

[@nikkivarain537]

That f______ indicator don't work yes that flow indicator don't work

[@MinecrafterFresh1]

I’ve been watching this video while I have a bad cough which I’ve had for 3 days strait in my holiday with 3 days left until I go back to the UK

[@nikkivarain537]

KLEEMANN THAT COMPANY COULD BE ASHAMED OF SELF

[@frankieepurr]

My college has lots of kleeman lifts

[@nikkivarain537]

It is abandoned elevator

[@nikkivarain537]

Yeah they won't last for 10 years correct elevator won't last for 10 f______ YEARS WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME ELEVATOR WON'T LAST

[@nikkivarain537]

Nope they do not want to do that they want to become a crappy ass installer

[@1961kickboxer]

Do you like Marryat Scott’s

[@LadySophieofHougunManor7325]

Yep especially old Woolworths ones

[@1961kickboxer]

@@LadySophieofHougunManor7325 how do you know about them in Woolworths , I’m intrigued steve.

[@LadySophieofHougunManor7325]

@@1961kickboxer I think my old Woolworths had one they had 2 goods lifts but if it was the one I’m thinking it was a marryat Scott that was removed Leaving only one goods lift in B&M Long Eaton towns old Woolworths but going back further I remember when Nottingham co op had attendant operated relay controlled lifts I’ve always been fascinated by them

[@nikkivarain537]

50 years this is bulshit [_] for elevators wow just [_] well 50 years that's a long time oh my gosh that's a long time we praise him this the elevator lift

[@veke1069]

That is a KONE display for sure.

[@Bve542]

Hey Beno I remember your 465 brush motors vids

[@nikkivarain537]

Yo how the f___ the buy that cheap-ass Elevator

[@tjw2806]

And all the tower block lifts there have Lester Controls :///

[@Bombiedude.]

10:53 that bus is advertising my favorite movie series harry potter thats probably the only cool part of that bus though the rest of it is probably ofcourse nothing special just to spread the crappy butter on the bread lol

[@FormulaYoshi72]

spinaker is nothing like shard

[@capcompass9298]

I presume you were just passing through.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

I thought that whilst I was traveling through life, I had come across all and sundry in the world of lifts, but no. Those Otis direction arrows (07:40) on the door frame are a nice touch, even if they are overkill when you consider the ones on each floor level.

[@Arbiter50productions]

portsmouth is good

[@ryangoddard4841]

ngl beying from portmouth well like 20 mins away from there this hurt my feelings lol i like it

[@nikkivarain537]

They do a home they do

[@wisteela]

At least you got to surf a couple. I love how you covered that camera. 😁 Hoistway Elevating expectations

[@windowsxpnt2347]

hey austin this is guys

[@tophound701]

​@Foxy the Wolf I care.

[@ReubenAshwell]

Hey guys, Austin's comments are crap and should never be read.

[@nikkivarain537]

The builder own f_____ Lyft with no name the better be the name

[@mirekludoit4506]

But the food is good

[@dobolgreensadobolb]

Ratsada ng mga Balita! Ratsada ng mga Balita! Ratsada ng mga Balita!

[@nikkivarain537]

Yeah the f_______ number won't

[@nikkivarain537]

Yeah could be yes it is that's discussing

[@ReubenAshwell]

I do agree about Casino's, theres no need for them, all it is is just people spending lots of money only to end up throwing it away.

[@bluestarunilinkfanofficial1553]

I like it buses are nice city is amazing

[@therealvbw]

You're from Southampton, what the hell are you saying!??? Isn't it illegal to like us?

[@bluestarunilinkfanofficial1553]

Shutup

[@nikkivarain537]

The f_____ elevator f_____ broke or f___ up

[@ANDREWWALLFORD123]

"Reasons why Portsmouth is crap and should be avoided" I don't sense this about? I don't wonder why you doing this elevator on video for??

[@kylekinghorn4509]

Same thing is happening in Southampton with the otis 2000. The otis 2000s are getting modernised with kone KCE logic in the shopping centre car park. 1 is in service but it behaves like a Lester lift and most of it is still original. With Portsmouth's otis 2000s, their all becoming ecodiscs which are better than just a mod. Also in Southampton the kone office series are being modernised by generic with Lester control its a peice of crap really.

[@axolotlgamer615]

I didnt think you could swear this much in a video

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

Don't get between the man and his bêtes-noirs!

[@axolotlgamer615]

@@JP_TaVeryMuch Lol

[@nikkivarain537]

F___ up penguins elevator company

[@nikkivarain537]

Okay listen yeah because their company suck or the builder own list on purpose

[@joshlunt7827]

What's a predoor? 🤔

[@benolifts]

Short for Pre-opening doors. The inner and outer door safety circuits have a pre-door bypass relay (actually 3 relays for redundancy) that allow the lift to move with the doors open. The following must be true for pre-doors to enable... 1. The logic must chose to pre-door during levelling when arriving at a floor (or for relevelling once stopped) 2. The speed of the lift must be below a certain speed 3. The 2 shaft bars (or magnet switches) must be activated to activate the 3 pre-door safety bypass relays 4. (optional) The logic must not have detected the fault state that the pre-door relays have become stuck or bridged This setup is the standard of allowing a lift to move with the doors open using both software and using physical relay interlocks. Both the software and the relays can not activate pre-doors alone, they must both independently allow it for it to happen.

[@joshlunt7827]

@@benolifts Thank you Beno you're very clever! 😁

[@nikkivarain537]

Yeah k is going in the car park elevators gone

[@nikkivarain537]

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[@sephstar-offical]

Ports mouth, ye not going there lol

[@nikkivarain537]

Hey generic company

[@nikkivarain537]

Depressing it is song

[@SamSitar]

an entire city of crap lifts is very strange.

[@TonyLing]

It's great if you like a bit of Matalot action I'm reliably informed

[@ogonbio8145]

Time to get a refund for my 20 hour flight to Portsmouth

[@therealvbw]

You'll regret not going 😄

[@LadySophieofHougunManor7325]

Portsmouth like Chatham 😆