Machine Room Tour! OTIS manually controlled fast traction elevator @ State Bank, La Crosse, WI
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2020
- State Bank (McMillan) Building
BIG THANKS to the kind gentlemen for making this video possible!
Information
• Location: 401 Main St, La Crosse, WI
• Manufacturer: OTIS
• Year: 1912-1913?
• Type: Top-drive, traction, manual control
• Capacity: 16 persons or 2500 lbs
• Stops: 6
Recorded 12. April 2017
Wonderful Elevator! And a wonderful man who lets you see the machine room.
Cool piece of history there. That Otis emblem on the floor is probably covering up the wind-up safety system. Once the safety trips, it has to be manually wound back up with a key.
Great to see one of those antiques are still up and running like they were a 100 years ago.
Very Cool
"Kind of dangerous, but we can..." Music to my ears.
Great Video! The elevator cab looks brand spanking new. The machine room is good condition, controller relays function very smoothly, little or no arcing. Geared traction machine 1:1 roping smooth starts/stops. The MG set appears to be running smoothly, no excessive level of noise. Secondary disconnect for the controller/AC motor of MG set.
Amazing elevator, amazing video (I must have missed it first time around). Wonder when the generator shuts down.
what a grand ole gal!. and a noisy commutator. Gotta love a flyball governor. Thanks for the memory
This old elevator is epic
These had a sound all there own. We had a job with 4 in it. Ripped out 2005.
That elevator is much faster than any elevator in today’s current age
Eine wunderbare Anlage.
Sowas kann man eben nur mit einer Gleichstrom-Maschine machen.
WOW!!! Nice video and beautiful machine room, awesome elevator.
I loved seeing the machine room
Now this is incredible.. seems way overbuilt for such a small building, but that's how they did it back then.
It looks so elegant to be a machine room
The circular panel in the floor probably is for releasing a “wedge clamp safety”. This early type of safety gear needed winding back out as the car was lifted.
The operator was a young man when that elevator was put in.
wow verry nice elevator.
Could you (After corona) do a tour of the elevators onboard the silja galaxy.
Che spettacolo!
That feeling when I'd prefer to take that elevator rather than walking that steep stairs
I like how it overruns the landing, then reverses to level out.
That was a person who did that.
This building was built in 1885-86. This elevator appears to have either been added on, replaced, or modernized a long time ago.
This elevator has sadly since been modernized and is no longer gated.
Darn it, that is so sad to hear.
Is it the AVC/AGC gain on the camera's microphone, or is that motor generator set really that noisy?
I drove this on operators lunchtime also drove it before they put the gate on been under it rode on top of it. Did this For 10 years
So out of curiosity, if you overshoot the top floor or the basement does the elevator stop on its own or can you run into the buffers?
The elevators stops on its own via the final switches
@@HeritageElevators thanks
why does it look so different then the one in the pic hanging in the car ?
This elevator was originally a birdcage type when installed in 1912 but during the 1920s was upgraded and enclosed.
Anybody been to northwest Canada AKA territories??
What happens if it bottoms out?
This elevator is too fast...
I noticed it did run fast I thought at 1st it might have been a gear-less traction machine. Where the driven sheave is anchored directly to the armature of the motor, for high rise buildings generally over 22-24 floors. However this elevator has a geared traction which needs a smaller motor, but slower in FPM. I noticed a rectifier board in the controller which is likely how the slow and fast speed is achieved with the hand crank. Gear-less machines are very rare being installed on low rise buildings with their higher FPM, in which case they have 2:1 roping to slow them down.
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Motor generator constantly on. Waste of power.
Too fast and manually door