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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Tx6JrUb80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asz-GWRFJxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUjhSD6oT3s Elevators are pretty weird and cool. I like riding on elevators. Does anyone have any cool facts about elevators they would like to share?
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I've take a ride on the top of a few elevators. There is often a platform you can stand on up there that they use for installation / maintenance. It would amaze you at how fast they go. Watching the slab lines and thin slivers of light from beneath the doors on each floor zip by.
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Jun 22, 2017 05:55
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just lol if u take the elevator
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Jun 22, 2017 06:04
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Agreed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeVfLOqtPR8
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Jun 22, 2017 06:04
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Elevators seem to kill a lot of people in China.
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Jun 22, 2017 06:05
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How do you go down something called an elevator?
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Jun 22, 2017 06:06
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I was on a junky elevator remodeling a school once. I tried to go up two floors with boxes of material. The elevator went up, stopped, fell half a floor and the doors opened with the floor about two feet higher than the floor of the elevator. Did not appreciate.
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Jun 22, 2017 06:08
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Skypie posted:I was on a junky elevator remodeling a school once. I tried to go up two floors with boxes of material. The elevator went up, stopped, fell half a floor and the doors opened with the floor about two feet higher than the floor of the elevator. Did not appreciate. were you floored
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Skypie posted:I was on a junky elevator remodeling a school once. I tried to go up two floors with boxes of material. The elevator went up, stopped, fell half a floor and the doors opened with the floor about two feet higher than the floor of the elevator. Did not appreciate. In one of the plants I've worked at while under contract the elevator inside containment literally must be operated by a person.
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Jun 22, 2017 06:11
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Sjs00 posted:were you floored Yes. Another time at a power house, I had to remove old conduit from the upper platforms. This requires riding a mechanical elevator that's probably twice as old as me about 200 feet into the air. It was very nerve-wracking, and when you'd take it down, it would lurch and drop about 3 inches so hard you'd come off the grate you stood on Honky Dong Country posted:In one of the plants I've worked at while under contract the elevator inside containment literally must be operated by a person. Been on a job like that but it was a hospital and the laborer was there to make sure people weren't getting off on floors that were "active" and not under construction.
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Jun 22, 2017 06:11
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what do you want to live forever or something bitch
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Jun 22, 2017 06:14
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Preferably. I want an immortal robot body and to be launched into space away from this dumb gay earth and/or comedy forum site
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Jun 22, 2017 06:15
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Sjs00 posted:do you want to live forever COME ON, YOU APES!
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Jun 22, 2017 06:16
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whenever I get in an elevator I play this little game where I immediately drop my pants and must avoid being caught otherwise I must be punished
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Jun 22, 2017 06:32
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three olives your new avatar is ravishing on you
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Jun 22, 2017 06:37
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The coolest elevator I ever rode was the one to the top of the World Trade Center in the 90s
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Jun 22, 2017 06:41
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this is the coolest elevator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwU4iCnWAPU
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Jun 22, 2017 06:44
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I can never find the secret escape hatch
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Jun 22, 2017 07:18
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Elevators use weights and poo poo so you don't die that's all i know about elevators
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Jun 22, 2017 07:27
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The only memorable one I went up was in the Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur. It has screens showing the outside world so you don't get motion sickness and puke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sakuaoF7mXI
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Jun 22, 2017 07:32
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Elevatorfan videos make me so angry "I'm an enthusiast!!" *doesn't know that all close-door buttons in the US are disabled by law*
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kXcknies_A&t=5s
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Jun 22, 2017 07:36
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Gazpacho posted:Elevatorfan videos make me so angry Every close door button I've ever pushed worked just fine.
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Jun 22, 2017 07:40
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"Yep it goes up. Yep it goes down. Does exactly what the laws require it to do. Sorry, I'm too dumb to say anything about the appearance of the car or the landings or anything else that distinguishes it from the last elevator." Elevator enthusiasm is consumerist false consciousness
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Jun 22, 2017 07:41
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Honky Dong Country posted:Every close door button I've ever pushed worked just fine.
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Jun 22, 2017 07:43
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My old workplace had a functioning Paternoster elevator and I miss that thing so much.  Riding it over the top and through the bottom was a rite of passage for all new employees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoCQ6tq5wJE
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Gazpacho posted:if you're in US jurisdiction, pressing the close door button generally has nothing to do with the door closing Well I've lived in the US my entire life and any elevator I've ever ridden the button works. Also the whole "the door close button doesn't work by law" thing is supposedly due to the Americans with Disabilities Act, which as of 2010 has nothing in it that says elevators are not allowed to have a functioning door close button, just that there must be a functioning door open button to reopen the doors. E: actually I looked it up just now because I haven't needed a familiarity with ADA requirements since I stopped working apartment maintenance, and it actually goes further than that and requires a system (usually sensors) to halt the closing of a door if a person is obstructing the doors without needing physical contact with the elevator to stop the doors. Still, nothing at all about door close buttons. Honky Dong Country fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jun 22, 2017 |
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Jun 22, 2017 07:51
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my favorite bad elevator experience was in my college dorm, it would always overshoot the home floor landing then hurtle all the way to the top of the building and then down to the basement before trying again, i guess to calibrate itself? it will be cool if the GOP rolls back some regulations and kids start posting elevator horrors
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The elevators where I work have no buttons inside them to select a floor. Instead, when you use your badge to get through the security turnstiles, it directs you to an elevator that will take you to your floor. There's also a floor select panel on the ground level outside the elevator banks. This is actually the most retarded system in existence. Often, I need to go to a different floor when I come in, so it's sending two elevators as opposed to one. This has also hosed me up in that I'll get on a normal elevator and just wait for it to take me where I want to go because I've gotten so used to not pushing a button.
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Jun 22, 2017 08:05
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Have you ever taken an elevator TO A DIFFERENT WORLD? Elisa Lam did. It went poorly for her. Beware spoopy!
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Jun 22, 2017 09:10
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*squinted eyes flick back and forth between G and 1 buttons in utter confusion*
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BIG PUFFY NIPS posted:*squinted eyes flick back and forth between G and 1 buttons in utter confusion* *awkwardly performs the walk of shame down to ground level after realizing the mistake*
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If you take the elevator how do you even get down?
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givepatajob posted:The elevators where I work have no buttons inside them to select a floor. Instead, when you use your badge to get through the security turnstiles, it directs you to an elevator that will take you to your floor. There's also a floor select panel on the ground level outside the elevator banks. my office is similar, no buttons inside, just a panel at every floor where you give it the floor you want to go to to call a ride. if you want to ensure you have the elevator to yourself you press the same floor ~dozen times. or call two floors above you (car only goes to three at a time) and then you can at least be certain it won't have to stop on the way to ur floor.
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Jun 22, 2017 12:07
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Associate Christ
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also the whole system loving sucks and i wish they just had regular elevators... orpaternosters i guess
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Jun 22, 2017 12:08
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Elevators are cool. Escalators... not so much
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Jun 22, 2017 12:34
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what about travelators
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Toadvine posted:Elevators are cool. Escalators... Escalators frustrate me because they are designed to help people move quickly through the natural bottleneck that is stairs but then people just stand on them and its slow anyways.
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King Reol elevator review thread? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0gDyGjbi_c
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I have an irrational fear of elevator cables snapping and sending everyone plummeting to their deaths. Makes working in a tower interesting. A lot of goobers like to shove their hands between the closing doors in an attempt to force them back open without suffering amputation.
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