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TIL the elevator at the old Grandview Hotel in St. Louis still uses a manual rope governor.
I was there for a wedding last weekend and the building manager let me peek in the machine room. The whole safety system is run off a hemp rope and a set of flyweights, nothing digital at all. For those who've worked on modern traction units, what's the biggest risk in keeping a system like that operational?
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spencer4114d ago
Reminds me how we trust old mechanical things way past their expected life. What's the plan when the last person who knows that rope system retires?
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rowanbennett13d ago
Wait, we still have rope systems?
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