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 Amanita
 |  | Elevator surfing?
< on 5/10/2005 4:23 AM >
|  | | | Has anyone here ever done elevator surfing, or know anyone who has? I saw the description while I was reading the list of UE terms and slang, and I was like "Holy shit, does anyone really do this!?"
The idea kinda reminds me of the opening sequence of "speed", where they show all that footage of the elevator shafts. BTW, that elevator sequence was filmed inside a real skyscraper- Gas Company Tower of Los Angeles
Let the Tower Cranes fly.. |
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drainpunk
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 1 on 5/10/2005 4:35 AM >
|  | | | I haven't done, but I'm interested. It seems very dangerous. If anyone has pictures or links please tell them.
I can't remember Speed 1 anymore.. But Speed 2 had some elevator related stuff, right?
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Billmac
Location: Scarborough
Gender: Male
well this ought to be different
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 2 on 5/10/2005 4:41 AM >
| | | | Seems needlessly dangerous.
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lordpook
Gender: Male
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 3 on 5/10/2005 5:11 AM >
| | | | I once wrote a fake article for a newspaper describing the event as involving sand, beach music, and swimsuit clad retro-heads hanging ten while going down the shafts. Sort of an April Fools thing. I wish there was a sport like that. Real eleavtor surfing is pretty dangerous though, and far less kitschy.
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cavemonkey
Location: berthoud,Colorado
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 4 on 5/10/2005 7:27 AM >
| | | | someone should try to surf the elevators in the stratosphere in vegas. 100 floors in 1 minute. THAT WOULD BE SO CRAZY THERES NO WORDS FOR IT...
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drainpunk
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 5 on 5/10/2005 1:48 PM >
| | | | If one floor would be 4 metres tall, 100 floors would be 400 metres.. v=s/t.. Those elevators go about 24 km/h! Pretty fast!
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Bobtheallmighty
   
Location: Somewhere over london, Ontario
Gender: Male
gotta climb.
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 6 on 5/10/2005 3:43 PM >
| | | | screw that. someone should surf the CN tower's elevators 
-bob
" <Samurai> you know, we aren't as far removed from animals as we'd like to think... i still have bowel movements that border on mystical... i mean almost orgasmic" |
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Vision
Location: Pacific Northwest
Gender: Male
Retired explorer
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 7 on 5/10/2005 8:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by bobtheallmighty
screw that. someone should surf the CN tower's elevators
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After hours so you could get a clean run. wheeee
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grit1
Location: University Campus - Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
Got Shear Line?
| | | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 9 on 5/11/2005 7:53 PM >
| | | | Remember that scene in Mission Impossible I where the crew had a "grease guy" on the inside of the elevator shaft controlling the car for the secured location? .... SQUAAASH ... that'll ruin your weekend. ~Grit.
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| |  | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 10 on 5/12/2005 5:25 AM >
| | | | I thought it was the giant folding spikes at the top of the shaft? You know, the ones most elevator shafts are equipped with?
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
http://spamusement...hp/comics/view/137 |
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Piper
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 11 on 5/12/2005 5:37 PM >
| | | | I work in the elevator industry and have been on top of many cars going up and down in the shaft during testing. Unless you know what you're doing, I'd skip it. Most of the time when people are killed they have forgotten about the counterweight that can run behind or either side of the car depending on set up.
The counterweight is about 40 - 50% of the gross weight and made up of steel or concrete slabs stacked on top of one another. Depending on the gross weight you could be talking about 3000 lbs plus. Sticking your head out at the side and getting hit by this is sure to end your day.
Clearances are tight, not too long ago an apprentice was cut in half by a toe guard when he tried to get out of the pit before the car came down.
All in all it loses it's thrill quickly.
It's not the kill, it's the thrill of the chase. |
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drainpunk
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 12 on 5/12/2005 8:34 PM >
| | | | | Clearances are tight, not too long ago an apprentice was cut in half by a toe guard when he tried to get out of the pit before the car came down. |
Sorry to hear that.  Seems highly dangerous.
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Kakesu
Location: England. Fun!
Gender: Male
printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n");
| | | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 13 on 5/13/2005 12:22 AM >
| | | | Maybe building that have the lifts on the outside would be doable?
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Amanita
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 14 on 5/13/2005 12:34 AM >
| | | | Ye gods, Piper. That's awful. And I thought Tower crane operating was a dangerous job.
Anyhow, since you work with elevators, maybe you can answer a question for me. A few years ago, the building I work in had some dumbass kids who liked to jump in the elevators, and I guess that wasn't good for them. Just what can jumping in an elevator do to screw the works up? I'm referring to the cable elevators, BTW.
I just love watching the machinery in my building's elevator room when it springs into motion. Don't get too close, just enjoy watching it work. It's pretty neat, actually.
As for the jumping brats in my building, one of the elevator techs wrote it like it is in the maintenance log- "Little bastards jumping in car".
Let the Tower Cranes fly.. |
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Darkwolf
  
Mellow Moderator
Location: Florida... Again...
Gender: Male
I fix things!
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 15 on 5/13/2005 12:55 AM >
| | | | Kids do that jumping crap at my hospital all the time on the front elevators. The elevator guys say it trips the weight switch or something and locks out the car. I just love when they get stuck and we open the doors and they are all freaked out and say we didn't do anything it just stopped. Got to love them. As for elevator surfing I don't think I want to even risk that. I feel safer in the elevator than outside of it.
[last edit 5/13/2005 12:57 AM by Darkwolf - edited 1 times]
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 16 on 5/13/2005 9:13 AM >
| | | | The elevators in my dorm at college were awful. Never replaced since the 60s, broke down once a week or so, and occasionally dropped people 2 or 3 floors in free fall. I had to rescue people from them a couple times with bent coat hangars, the fire department got tired of responding and would take up to an hour to drive up the street a block. I've been stuck in them a couple times too, but I knew enough to push the inner doors apart and pop the outer door lock. Probably riskier than just jacking off until the fire department shows, but I figured it was less risky than some of the stuff I do exploring.
Also, you could give the roof hatch a swift punch and pop the lock open. It would ring a bell and stop the car, but if you wanted to surf you could just climb up and close the hatch. I never had the balls to do it, the only shaft action I've done was rappelling a broken down elevator: http://freak.minimanga.com/fa.htm
The best elevator though, was the one in another university building designed by stoned architecture students. It had doors on each side, but the floors on each side weren't at the same levels, and there were half-floor mech levels in between the real floors on one side. That elevator got confused frequently and would spit you out on a mech level, open the door on the wrong side to a blank wall, or open the door to half of each floor. Good times
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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drainpunk
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 17 on 5/13/2005 11:49 AM >
| | | | Hehe, sounds like a nice elevator you got there. The one that does occasional free falling sounds fun. Seems like some clever architecture there, as well.
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Piper
Location: Ontario
Gender: Male
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 18 on 5/13/2005 3:22 PM >
| | | | Amanita
Jumping in the car shouldn't do anything to the cables due to the safety factor involved. I don't get into much of the mechanical end of it but if I remember right the safety factor is 1 1/2 or 2 times the gross load. As mentioned you may trip the weight sensor but more then likely they knocked out the PPU unit. This unit lets the controller know where the car is in the shaft. Knocked out the car should shut down.
You could knock the lock in the roof exit as mentioned by Freak to get on top of the car but you will trip a sensor and shut the car down. Depending where you are by state code or earthquake region most exit's have a lock to prevent access to the roof. If no lock there are still wingnuts that keep the exit closed from the outside (usually 4) and their still will be the sensor.
As I mentioned the thrill is gone, actually I've never been comfortable on top of some of the older cars. It gets pretty slippery at times due to dust, grease etc. Being in a closed shaft in the dark is one thing but I hate scenic cars. Was on one a few months ago, the first 5 floors were enclosed the upper floors were in an open atrium. Freaked out alot of people that day.
It's not the kill, it's the thrill of the chase. |
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Amanita
| | Re: Elevator surfing?
<Reply # 19 on 5/14/2005 5:34 AM >
| | | | I figured it would be pretty hard to hurt those cables- I suspected it was some kind of sensor that these "Little bastards" were setting off.
The elevators in the building I'm working at are small, and each car's held up by several strands of wire rope as thick as my pinky. Thanks to my crane training, I know how tough that stuff is.
Believe me, I've got no intention of elevator surfing, I know better. But I got the coolest idea for a movie fight scene- remember those beautiful arial fight scenes in "Hero", Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and House of Flying Daggers"? Just imagine that taking place in the elevator shafts of a large office building instead- think of a maze of shafts like those first few minutes of "Speed".
Damn, I need to sketch this little scene out now..Goes off to watch Speed again, hunts for sketchpad..
Let the Tower Cranes fly.. |
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