What a fabulous little lift Mr Matt, bottom mount, winding drum, superbly integrated modern controls, a remote counter weight, and it’s absolutely beautiful. I have no idea how you find such things, but, I’m really glad you did, thanks again for all your hard work finding, filming, and producing these amazing lift videos.

This lift is the best ever! The modernizations haven’t taken away it’s charm.

One of your most interesting videos yet, many thanks for uploading!

That was definitely unique. Really cool thanks for the video.

Love it! Thanks for another great video.

great educational content, thanks for your dedication!

Awesome! Winding drum applications are sometimes hard to visualize but you did a great job with a perfect example.

Fascinating, I expect the idea of the separate counterweight shafts was to maximise the space available in the main lift shaft as well as being more pleasing to not have an ugly Counterweight going up and down.

Great video from a talented creator!

very unique traction elevator with the hidden counterweight and 3 sheaves above the shaft. Until I saw part 2 never would have figured it was a basement traction machine. I have come across a modern day overhead traction with a "hidden" counterweight shaft. The hoist way is narrow.

This is so interesting and exciting! Awesome presentation of the details!

I love your videos! This is a great video. Thanks for sharing! Hope to meet you someday.

Nice bit of kit, with a sympathetic upgrade. It's an unusual arrangement although not unique. I would think that there is a lot of rope wear due to the drum drive wrapping and divertor pulleys required. Great video Matt !

Very interesting and unusual design. Thanks for the video, Matt.

Very interesting lift for sure.

Thx 4 explaining - you may remember the old bottom drive lift with its counterweight in a seperat shaft I filmed. Was wondering why they didn't just used a usual motor, now I know why ;)

*FASCINATING!* :D ~Cindy! :)

One of the best vids. Very interesting lift. Really the went nuts to install the lift in such small place. VERY CLEVER. As others sadi, modernization didnt took the character out. But this has to be with such a confined space, that other solutions wont fit or require building modifications. I think it is on France some parts (historc buildings) are not allowed to carry modifications, so you came with crazy solutions like that that are really unique. Not the place for the average generics. I would prefer not VFD, just let the motor as is. Realys would have been fantastic.

your explanations are very thorough.

Great couple of videos Matt. Very interesting. I think the smaller diversion pulleys are called vibrating sheaves? Maybe that’s an Americanism but I’ve seen them called that a few times. Again, great video.

Really really interesting Thank you 🙏

Great video! I was there for the premiere, but annoyingly I couldn’t comment for some reason!

Hi! I was in the live stream.

😍 i love this beautiful elevator with

Very neat way to conceal the counterweight! It's tucked away into it's own little shaft. The downside, it's hard to inspect eventhough it has an inspection door at the bottom floor. Typical architects solution, neat but not very practical. We have a similair corner shaft along the stairs in our own house, the plumbing downpipe from the bathroom is hidden there but it makes the stairs more narrow as it's a stair with bottom corner. In dutch houeses space comes at a premium, the toilet is also located under the stairs...... the downpipe has a short conncection. I'd imagine it be difficult to install a counterweight in such a narrow shaft that's very inaccessible.

Such a beautiful piece of engineering

Finally!

Divertor wheels,with old” Stauffer” grease cups.

A good adaptation for this building,gave the install crew a few headaches I bet!

Hi Matt, gorgeous piece of engineering - thanks for the upload. I might be overlooking something obvious here but is there not a governor system to prevent a free fall? I don't like the look of those ropes in the counterweight shaft...

Also old mine shaft lifts and funicular railways/lifts most commonly use drum drive systems and don’t have counter weights! :)

Where is the floor selector which the vanes activate?

I haven’t watched ur vids in a while and I’m happy to be back

10:21 looks like a Schindler because of the hand winding wheel and original floor selector

Quite an interesting winding drum elevator

interesting that the counterweight has got no guide tracks in its...uhhh "mini-shaft" i guess you could call it?

Elevators never stop amazing ......very nice 👍🏼

That's probably the first time that I see a winding drum lift with a torpedo counterweight, I've seen one like this in a old hospital, but it did not have a counterweight. This lift/elevator that I saw had some differences though, notably the motor was on top, t'was a slip-ring motor as well, I could definitely see the rings sticking out of the rotor (they were exposed outside of the motor probably to make maintenance easier), the controller was your average 1940's relay logic controller but with mercury (!!!) relays. On the bottom you had all the sheaves, and you could see that a counterweight was planned but was never installed, instead they had ran cables in the shaft where the "torpedo" would have been. There was also a second lift/elevator like that in the other wing of this hospital, same as the first one but it had a counterweight this time, and the motor was at the top as well. I wonder why they went with a winding drum while they could have went with a regular motor. Looking back at it, I wish I could have taken pictures, but unfortunately that hospital has been since sealed up and is slated for demolition (when I visited it, it was in the process of being decommissioned, I was lucky to have been allowed there in the first place), both elevator/lifts were still 100% original, untouched since they were installed in 1947. Only modifications that they got was some of the mercury relays that were replaced by solid state relays... I don't think I'll ever find another one like those two.

I can't begin to imagine what a royal PITA this must be to maintain.

Service-friendly machine

Hi, does there exist some wirering diagramms for an relay lift controller, because I want to build one?

If the motor room is at the top, the combined weight of the car plus the counterweight pull downward on the equipment, making it easy to secure. In this case, however, the combined weight of the car and counterweight pull upward on the drum, making it essential that the drum be securely embedded in the floor.

wow really neat piece of machinery quite a work of engineering art if you ask me

4:52 Does that counterweight not have guide rails? It looks like it’s swinging around a bit.

You need to use music by Curved Mirror

Accessing the "Torpedo" for maintenance must be a massive pain

This reminds me of the fight scene in diamonds are forever

God the racket the counter weight would make it if something made it start swinging

A lot of rouge on those ropes

How do they maintain the counterweight? Are there any access doors to the counterweight shaft?

Is it known what the original lift motor was of technology? The lift itself seems to be from the 1920s (or even earlier?), the machinery is a modern 3-phase AC motor, but maybe the old original lift motor was a DC engine? (perhaps supplied by an old DC mains of 110 or 220 VDC?)

Place a camera in the pulley room and another in the machine room then we can see the motor running when you are in the elevator

I've never heard of a cylindrical counterweight. Is this the only elevator with a cylindrical counterweight, or are there more?

Interesting....

WOW!! look at the rust on those hoist cables!

Do you need to put extremely creepy music? And nice videos! keep up the good work!

Still wondering why they call the sheave room a "motor room" as the sign on the door mentions... Ce n'est pas une machinerie mais bien un local des poulies au 6ème étage de cet hôtel parisien

Why do I only see the video now while it already has been uploaded 2 days ago ?

is it only me or isnt the cable which the counterweight is attached to looking too healthy?

10:19 this motor looks like a schindler D series one but with a drum attached

Pretty interesting this motoring it is... Hey, tell me, how old this lift machinery since is?

noooooooooooo missed it i was busy with music stuf

SO I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE WINDING DRUM! Hahaha

ah, a new Video! Let me prepare something to drink, a piece of cake and full screen, now lets start the Video :D

What is the intro music?

The gearbox looks like a Schindler W140

YEET!

In boots the lift is near the stairs and not the stairs next to the escalator. I'm sad because I can't record any bus povs for buses in eingland so I have to other things

#TheLiftDragon ❤❤❤❤❤❤

4:50min BLOW MY MIND ...never saw something like that...

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I'm dismantling a old 600 kg otis lift about 100 years old any suggestions

10:48 Does the counterweight shaft go into the machine room?

Guy that restored this lift knows if he restore it too modern the mrmatt will git hım

2:10 which music, mrmatt? Thanks

So this was a Schindler?

👍👍👍

The actual machine is down in the basement

WARNING at 12:28 ... symbol indicating the presence of ASBESTOS (the sticker with the "A" on the machine)

Look like it's time for cable job all that Rouge

The cable is looking a little worse for wear

That was not the motor room as there was no motor and/or relay cabinet. The machine room was DOWN UP (where you went) there is the sheave room

Nooooooooo! Mechanical floor selector wheel! Why computer, why!

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You keep going on about quality over quantity. If you want quality can we have some higher grade decent 4k footage? I enjoy your channel but it's still basic HD doesn't do your work any justice.

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Drums were used on World Trade Center. They found them in the debris and are on display in the memorial museum at the site. The motor and drums were one unit. From Wikimedia Commons ''New York City 05 - Elevator motor from World Trade Center.jpg'' technically it's a sheave, not a drum.