Nice building!

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Just curious, what happens if you run a manual elevator past the top /bottom floor? Does it stop and let you go back down or do you hit the final limit and get stuck?

@DieselDucy

6 ай бұрын

MOST of them including this will auto stop before the limit switch but some older ones will just hit the limit switch.

Ah, those good old-fashioned elevators with the control lever, sliding doors and folding interior gates, and exterior floor level gauges with the moving indicators above the doors! 🙂

@DieselDucy

5 ай бұрын

This was an amazing system.

Beautiful!!

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I need to go back and see the mod.

@TrainMan2025

7 ай бұрын

Meto 0:00

Thats awesome!

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

It really is.

Vintage elevators do not last forever. It's probably costing a lot more to maintain them than it's worth. Especially when it comes to trying to find parts for them when they are no longer being made. And they probably don't meet current regulations for elevator safety. So that's why they need to be modernized

@LittleRockElevators

7 ай бұрын

Even some of the modern elevators be broken quicker than the classic ones. Elevators like this one last longer.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

You are exactly right

@jonathancreveling5658

4 ай бұрын

American stuff was built to last back then, much more reliable than this cheap Chinese stuff made today.

That historic elevator was fast. Merry Christmas Awesome saucers.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!!!

SACRELIDGE! There should have been protesting in the streets over those elevators being modernized! I would have rather them remixed The Beatles into Techno or Dub Step before modernizing those. That one looked like it ran perfectly.

@DieselDucy

6 ай бұрын

It did. They were having a hard time getting parts though.

I hope they do keep some of the original

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Modded

@mariokart8715

7 ай бұрын

Slap on

Very epic!

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Sadly not any more

Why do I always see the Diesel appearing for a split-second in a random part of the video?

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

It is a "hidden DieselDucy"

So sad to see these beautiful elevators being replaced by regular ones! I can understand it’s hard to hire elevator operators, but they could have preserved one of the cars in its original state! We need to keep proof of our past technologies! Were you able to collect some of the fixtures?

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

They are leaving the car switches in the cars. I was given a plate out of one of the elevators. TOTALLY agree with your post of leaving one original.

@mariokart8715

7 ай бұрын

And it’s going in the museum.

This is beautiful! Let's see how the mod turned out...

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I really need to get back here

@claytoncollins2077

7 ай бұрын

@@DieselDucy hi

Glad you got to visit my hometown and got to ride the elevator.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I love Asheville!!

Glad you came down.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Me too

On those manually controlled elevators, how did the operator know which floor was calling it when someone pushed the call button?

@LittleRockElevators

7 ай бұрын

There's a panel above the crank with the number of floors and it will light up and buzz when someone on that floor calls it.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

The annunciation panel would light up the floor

Brand/Company: OTIS Buttons: none just a crank Door type: outside 2 speed manual door sliding left ◀️ with inside manual gate sliding left ◀️ Number of elevators: 1 Number of floors: 8 Amazing Beautiful and Epic elevator! Too bad that it's gone 😭😢😓😣😞😥🥺😔, what company modded the elevators and what buttons and indicators are on them now?

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Yep

So is this elevator modernized by now if it is can you make video about that

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I definitely plan on going back down here to do an update

@ishanjani9885

7 ай бұрын

@@DieselDucy awesome and merry Christmas to you Andrew and happy holidays and happy new year

A well maintained and preserved 1920's manually operated elevator. It was quite fast, DC traction with rectifier?

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

It was a multi voltage elevator

Did they say who did the mod?

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I believe it was United

EPIC Otis Elevator, Such a shame it's Now Modernized. Wonder which innovation Fixtures it will be? 2:58 Great ending of the Video.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Thanks :) I need to go back and check.

that car switch is amazing.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

It really was

It’s sad to see that these got modded

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

it is but I can see why they did it.

@BuildingToursForLife1660-4

7 ай бұрын

​@@DieselDucywhy do you see why they modded them?

Epic find! Too bad this is getting ripped out

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Yeah but it is hard to get parts for

@mariokart8715

7 ай бұрын

Just like most of the wooden escalators at the NYC Macy’s getting replaced by Schindler, except for the lower level set. Their Gurney elevators were tastefully modded. You need to visit there again.

That crank is wired in reverse.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

After this comment, I noticed that. I don’t know why they would do that.

R.I.P. Completely unnecessary to be honest. I do hope the cranks were left there as decoration.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I believe they were

Otis manual elevator scissors gate door

@Jack-zd7rv

7 ай бұрын

BRANDON PLEASE STOP STATING THE OBVIOUS

@BrandondHasty

7 ай бұрын

@@Jack-zd7rvstay off my comments go bother someone else ur ruining the community

@Jack-zd7rv

7 ай бұрын

@@BrandondHasty how

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

How

@BrandondHasty

7 ай бұрын

@@DieselDucy these folks won't leave me alone

Could’ve waited 5 more years?

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Yeah but I see why they did it. Having 3 operators was expensive but I agree with another post. They could have left one original.

@BuildingToursForLife1660-4

7 ай бұрын

​@@DieselDucyhow was it expensive? What do you mean?

@Elevatorelectricgate

7 ай бұрын

@@BuildingToursForLife1660-4 The building property itself may go bankrupt.

@BuildingToursForLife1660-4

7 ай бұрын

@@Elevatorelectricgate R.I.P

Hi

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

Hi

Rip. But anyways, if I do start filming elevators, I'll be the only one that never talks while recording them

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I’m quiet in a lot of my videos. Several others are too

@ttpplumbingandelevators

7 ай бұрын

@@DieselDucy I'm saying by not talking at all

@Elevatorelectricgate

7 ай бұрын

@@ttpplumbingandelevators Same here.

@ttpplumbingandelevators

7 ай бұрын

@@Elevatorelectricgate wow, guess I'm not the only one. But I'm extremely unlikely to film elevators because I'm scared of them. If I did start, my first would be at my doctor's

@eurovator4273

7 ай бұрын

I don´t talk either. Simply because I try to film everything that´s need to be seen, so that there won´t be any spoken explanations necessary. And if so, I put them into the descriptions of my videos, in two languages. BTW: epic elevator, sad that it gets modernized. Things like these should be kept.

hi

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

hi

@claytoncollins2077

7 ай бұрын

@@DieselDucy whats up are you work

@claytoncollins2077

7 ай бұрын

whats up

This will be truly missed. Sucks that it gets modded for the boringer and not vintage. It’s a shame that they modernized elevators without making them vintage again

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

It’s always sad to see a historic elevator modded.

@evana6425

7 ай бұрын

It stinks but they needed to so they will continue to operate and not break so anybody won’t get stuck on it or injured. Sad to see historic things go but it’s a shame they don’t make historical stuff anymore

@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398

6 ай бұрын

Never mind America, Make Elevators Great Again............

I swear if it's another trashy Innovation mod...

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

I believe it is but the character of the elevators are retained. I NEED to get back here.

I'm hoping it's not a stupid Generic.

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

they left the cars intact so they still look historic.

@officialSgtPepperArc360

7 ай бұрын

@@DieselDucy I meant when they get completely modded.

People suck... Three-speed?

@DieselDucy

7 ай бұрын

yeah they were 3 speed and VERY fast.