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Heard a kid call an elevator a 'magic room' and it got me thinking
I was working on a 1990s Otis unit in a Chicago library last week and overheard a little girl tell her mom that. It made me remember when I started in the 80s and everything was relays and contactors you could actually see and hear. Now I'm tracing faults through a circuit board the size of a playing card. The old gear was loud and took up a whole machine room, but you could fix it with a meter and a screwdriver. I miss the physical feel of the job sometimes, even if the new stuff is more reliable. What's the oldest piece of equipment you guys still work on regularly?
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olivia_webb1h ago
You're just romanticizing the old junk. That "physical feel" was mostly fighting with greasy parts that broke down constantly. I'll take a quiet, reliable circuit board over a room full of clunky relays any day.
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