Pro tip: I thought a 3/8 drive was fine for every elevator motor coupling bolt, but the one on a 1990s Dover in the old First National building needed a full 1/2 inch breaker bar and a cheater pipe to finally break free.

After fighting it for an hour and nearly rounding the bolt head, I realized that specific model's factory torque spec was way higher than I'd ever seen, so what's the weirdest tool or method you've had to use on an old unit?

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ninas671d ago

Man, that sounds brutal lol. So what did you end up doing, just keep adding pipe until it moved? @the_xena is right, some of these old units are a special kind of stubborn.

ray_miller841d ago

Old machines teach you that brute force is often the only REAL language they understand.

the_xena1d ago

Ugh, explains so much about people too.