1958 Gearless Traction Otis Elevator Machine Room tour | Tokyo

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1. ive been in a hydraulic motor room in school with a caretaker
2. This video about the elevator and visit to its machinery room is fun to view.Reposted the link thru You Tube so more whom are interested about this can also view.Reposted YT link to facebook too.Enjoy viewing,this is fun!!!Thank You for telling its story!!!
3. love watching all of the physical machanics of these machines. Computers are cool but to watch all this stuff work like a giant clock. so smooth
4. Had the opportunity to work on one.... tricky
5. Very nice and impressive old Gearless DC machinery. 175 volts, 141 amps when I read the type plate correctly - so, about 22 KW or 30 HP of power. Great! I love these old DC drives. Sad that this technology now is obsolete and more and more replaced by three-phase AC engines.
6. Did you ever get the old parts
7. dieselducy, are you a mechanic?
8. old technology, elevator, there's a way not done yet, no cables machine. Just detection once you put your weight in elevator or escalator by means of detection the machine will take you up, mechanical timing process in every step, weight is the switch .
9. Andrew Nice avatar/icon. I have that flag over my pic on my FB page.
   And funny how CBS 6 news was there with you.
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11. elevator only went to 6?  they are compact yet powerful.  looks hard to add another elevator.
12. Where is this? I'm liftservismen from Poland.
13. If you want a complete controller, you might ask the modernization contractor if you could buy one of those being removed.
    
    Otherwise, they're just sold to a scrap metal dealer. There's a lot of copper in those old controllers and contractors may get as much as $50 a piece at the scrap metal yard.
14. Sad to hear these elevators were being modernized...but that's progress. Pretty soon Otis touch buttons will become extinct. As it is they are getting very scarce. 
15. At last I've found an excellent video to watch tonight - must have missed this one when you published it.  Wow, amazing!  Some things puzzle me though, mainly due to cost I suppose - Why Gearless in a relatively low rise building, and why do they have the more expensive "advancer" system (2:46) on the selector?  Answer, for you to film :)  but do you see what I mean?  Most other buildings would have cut that out, unless the building was high rise and demanded these extra features.  Glad you filmed the journey up to the motor room, always interesting so see just where they are and how to get to them - every building is different.  EXCELLENT video!
16. According to the name plate on the machine, the machines are Otis 72 machines.
17. Very Similar To the Elevators @ the Washington Trust building
18. Nice motors.
19. cool video groetten van Tony pino uit Nederland Hollanda
20. THAT SOUND! Lovin' it. Footage is great but little too short - want mooooooore! :)