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That old timer who said never trust a car without a test ride
Back in 2011, a guy named Delbert at the union hall in Pittsburgh told me to always run a car empty with the safeties engaged before trusting any brake work. I thought he was just being paranoid, but after a job at the Westin where the brake release stuck and the car dropped two floors, I saw exactly what he meant. That lesson has saved me at least four times since, especially on older Otis units. Anyone else have a mentor whose warnings you blew off until they bit you on site?
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the_emery28d ago
I used to roll my eyes at guys like that, figured they were just stuck in their ways. Had an old head named Ray tell me the same thing about always checking the counterweight before riding a car up, and I nodded along but never did it. Then one day I'm on a job in a parking garage and the counterweight was way off, car starts free falling and I'm lucky I was only on the second floor. Now I check everything twice, even when the young guys laugh at me for it. Delbert and Ray were right, and it sucks that we gotta learn some lessons the hard way.
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