Suspension Means
Ropes & Belts
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My first coffee table was made out of one of these...
those were the days my friends!
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Anxiously waiting to be installed...
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Up close and personal...
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Rust and corrosion...not good
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Even more rust and corrosion...
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Broken wires in what I am guessing is preformed rope - see how flat they are laying...hard to catch with the
"rag in hand" technique of rope inspection. The blade of a small pocket knife will "click" as it runs over a break.
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Step 1: Do Not Insert Arm!
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As you can see the wires in every other strand are either regular lay or lang lay...
perhaps an attempt at a non-rotating rope?
I have not seen this type of rope construction in the elevator trade.
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This is several feet of discarded lang-lay rope.
Wires in a lang lay rope rotate in the same direction as the strands.
Can you see any areas on this rope that might be bad?
Click the to see what I think are damaged areas.
(It's hard to tell with all the debris around the ropes.)
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More broken wires
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More areas to be particularly mindful of during rope inspections.
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This rope has been riding on top of the adjacent rope for a period of time with no visible damage.
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We don't see many of these type of rope terminations here in the United States
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Another area to be mindful of - under the cable bands which
really should be removed once the rope termination is completed.
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More trouble...
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Standing tall and looking good!
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How about something different...an Otis suspension belt
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Another view...
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...or a ThyssenKrupp K-Core Aramid rope
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...or a Schindler Aramid rope
"Every second strand of the elevator rope also contains an electrically-conductive carbon fiber, which is used for
permanent electronic monitoring of the slightest damage or wear on the aramid rope." - from a sales brochure.
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Acceptable
Damaged
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Visual inspection criteria for the K-Core Aramid rope offered by ThyssenKrupp...
from a brochure
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K-Core Aramid rope construction...
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K-Core Aramid rope construction...
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A shackle for the K-Core Aramid rope...
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We don't see many wire rope clips used here in California on passenger or freight elevators...
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A nice image of both ends of the ropes plus a window and
a freight elevator car top and possibly a retiring cam motor?
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Only two ropes - right and left lay...(see the larger image)
Is that a flat traveling cable running across the car top and
entering the back side of the top of car operating device?
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This rope is history...
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What a mess...
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