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Rant: That old timer who said 'never trust a 10-year-old governor cable' was dead right
Last Tuesday in Phoenix, I ignored his advice and swapped in a used cable off a junker Otis, and the car dropped three feet during a test run before the safety caught it.
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barbararamirez17d ago
The car dropped three feet" - man, that made my stomach drop just reading it. I've been around elevators enough to know that three feet is no joke, that's a full-on freefall. Your safety gear saved your bacon, but I can only imagine the sound that made when it caught. I had a similar thing happen with a door closer once, not as bad, but it's one of those moments where time slows down and you just think "oh no" over and over. You're lucky you're here to tell the story, seriously.
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eric_carr17d ago
Man I felt that too, same kind of thing happened to me on a ladder once and my heart didn't stop pounding for an hour.
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