Hey Vic... Just to clear up the confusion
Local 1 is part of the IUEC
Local 3 is IBEW and has an Elevator division
Thanks! I grew up in Poughkeepsie, but didn't get into the trade until much later in California. Thanks for clearing that up.
cheers vic, yes it was the ballasts but it was funny as the lead mechanic was a little indian guy(who was a otis freak. he knew 401's backwards and could strip a selector blindfolded!) and he went off his tree! he said 'so if the globes didnt fix didnt you think to keep going to find the fault. how are you going to fix a lift if you think like that!'
you sound a lot like our company. alot of companies over here have gone down bc they have got to big too fast. we have 7 service rounds with about 90 units on each plus we install spanish lifts to about 50 a year with about 30 blokes on contruction.
Wow, 30 blokes...That's bigger than we've ever been. The best new package we ever installed, was the Otis LVM 2500, but I can't obtain it anymore. That package went in like a hot knife through butter. So complete, so well designed. Now I've gotta go back to other supply chains, where parts are wrong, or missing, and they have typically an unresponsive engineering staff, etc. Good suppliers are hard to find.