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Figured out I was loading the safeties wrong for 3 years
Been doing elevator work for about 8 years now and I always wondered why my safeties would bind up every few months. Last month an old timer named Dave watched me do a load test and just laughed. He showed me I was putting the wedge bolts in backwards the whole time. Switched them around on a 1994 Otis in a 12 floor building downtown and it ran smooth for the first time in years. No more pulling the rails every 6 weeks to clean out metal shavings. Has anyone else had a basic thing they did wrong forever that took someone pointing it out to fix?
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charlies374mo ago
Funny how that works. It's like when you learn to do something one way and just keep doing it, never questioning if there's a better way. I've noticed the same thing with simple stuff like tightening lug nuts or loading a dishwasher - you get locked into a pattern and don't even see it's wrong until someone shows you. Dave did you a solid, saved you years of headaches.
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evan5434mo ago
Read a study once that said breaking routines actually makes you think sharper.
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emma_wells834mo ago
Did you ever wash your hands and realize you can't remember doing it?
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