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#17093 - 05/18/16 07:10 PM
Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
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A Dopo
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Model H-5276 Dover Corporation Type: 61844-3
So, I'm a newby and discovered this forum via googling, and my hope is someone has experience with this type of "antique" elevator.
The elevator has served the family well for many, many years, and really looks good, especially the mechanicals etc. I believe it was installed around 1962 when the house was built.
The elevator will run to it stop or top floor (two) and would not go down. Then after a few days it would decide to work again.
I had an elevator repairman come over and he cleaned the contractors, etc, but that did not fix it. Then he sort of jumped up and down up in the elevator and it worked!!
I just had and electrical over and he did the following-some of it duplicative from the previous visit.
1-checked all door switches, contacts are clean, and all have power 2-Checked the chain limit switch (counter balance) it appears to be good 3-Travel switch in the back of the back corner of the roof left side 4-Checked all three call buttons two external one internal 5-Checked all terminal blocks for tightness 6-Checked tightness on all on contactors
Still it will come up, not go down, unless you move about and shake it in the shaft. So, it would appear to me that it is a switch or something that is not being engaged or making a connection, or something is loose.
Anyone have expereince with this? Your suggestions will be appreciated!
I would like to post some pictures for your review, but need to figure out how to do that. This form is not as intuitive as some of the other ones I have seen. Looks like I have to load them up to a website and copy some computer mumbojumbo. I wonder if I can do this via constant contact.
Thanks
PS-Yes, we could replace it but I would rather see if I can find a stash of parts from this site for the future.
Last edited by A Dopo; 05/18/16 07:16 PM.
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#17094 - 05/18/16 08:18 PM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
[Re: A Dopo]
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A Dopo
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So the latest is the tech took the elevator down from the top about half way, stopped, back up, half way, stopped, back down half way, stopped, all the way up, then all the way down, then back up all the way, and it would not work again until he shifted around again in the elevator.
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#17097 - 05/19/16 12:03 AM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
[Re: A Dopo]
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A Dopo
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#17098 - 05/19/16 12:05 AM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
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May be be a broken wire in the travel cable. A licensed elevator tech should have little trouble narrowing it down if he can catch it while it's not working, assuming there is an accurate set of prints. Thanks for the reply, no prints, but somewhere, there are some prints on this elevator. So far no luck on the internet.
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#17099 - 05/19/16 12:10 AM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
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Should be a stop switch in car to check also,double check the limit at the top,not much to those up and Down contators I'd say the lock at the top floor if u have to jump on it to run. As a layman, that's what I was thinking. The first tech did not kill the power and I heard the result of the contact with his screw driver from the upper floor. Then he proceeded to pull the 50 year old stop cord from the ceiling, as it was not hooked up to anything but the bar. Then today it was found out that a contact screw was broken off by a tech in the limit switch on the roof that has something to do with the chain. I had to round up a friend with some machines that came from the Charleston Navel yard just to get that pulled out and re threaded. Seems so far I have encountered incompetents. Not to mention the first speeding ticket in about three years as I rushed over to his home as he was in a hurry.
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#17107 - 05/19/16 01:51 AM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
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there is an independant out of Myrtle Beach that does a lot of work on residentials. It's a distance but might be worth looking into I think I called him, and he was very helpful if it's the same one. He actually told me to make sure to kill the breaker when I cleaned the door contacts. Unfortunately, the first tech did not do this, ergo the buuuzzzzzcrack! sound and burning smell from downstairs. Feel free to pm me his name, etc. Thanks!
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#17114 - 05/19/16 03:22 AM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
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#17117 - 05/19/16 10:32 AM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
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#17129 - 05/20/16 03:58 AM
Re: Help! circa 1962 Dover Home Lift Elevator issue
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Different guy, same company name. Guy in Mrytle is not signatory. Guy in Columbia is.
Last edited by Magic smoke; 05/20/16 04:08 AM.
When every circuit board is made. They put a little magic smoke inside.
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