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That door closer change I saw at a 15-year-old job site
I was doing PM on a building downtown in Austin last month, same bank of elevators I've serviced for 5 years. Noticed the door closing times were getting slower by about 3 seconds across all 4 cars. Pulled up the adjustment logs and saw the old closer springs had been swapped out 18 months ago with lighter-duty ones. The building manager told me they wanted quieter operation, but now the doors are dragging during peak hours. Has anyone else seen a shutdown risk from swapping hardware just to cut noise?
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leohart1mo ago
Ha! So they basically turned a 15 year old elevator into a library reading room and hoped nobody would notice the doors start to crawl. I mean, I get wanting it to be quieter but a 3 second lag across all four cars sounds like a classic case of "we fixed it until it broke." Bet the building manager is real fun at parties when the elevators are stuck on floor 12 during lunch rush.
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