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louiseluxOh lord. Sanity break.
Yesterday at work, I got talking to man who fixed the lifts, and he showed me his lift shaft. Sorry, I did try and not write that, but it just came out. Anyway, I'd never seen a lift shaft before. He showed me the 2 ton weight that balanced the lift, hanging on five thick steel hawsers, and the door opening mechanism (a chain gear not unlike a bicycle). After seeing those hawsers, I'll never be afraid again of them snapping. And he debunked a Hollywood lift drama convention. If anything were to go wrong with the lift mechanism, it would shoot straight to the top of the lift shaft, not plummet to the bottom, because the counterbalance is always heavier than the lift itself; it would be the counterbalance that fell, not the lift. He had a few terse words to say about Bruce Willis as well.
And, in an unprecedented outbreak of high culture, we are going to see the Eroica symphony tonight. I'm still not sure how they're going to fit the entire BSO into Reading Concert Hall-- it's tiny.
Yesterday at work, I got talking to man who fixed the lifts, and he showed me his lift shaft. Sorry, I did try and not write that, but it just came out. Anyway, I'd never seen a lift shaft before. He showed me the 2 ton weight that balanced the lift, hanging on five thick steel hawsers, and the door opening mechanism (a chain gear not unlike a bicycle). After seeing those hawsers, I'll never be afraid again of them snapping. And he debunked a Hollywood lift drama convention. If anything were to go wrong with the lift mechanism, it would shoot straight to the top of the lift shaft, not plummet to the bottom, because the counterbalance is always heavier than the lift itself; it would be the counterbalance that fell, not the lift. He had a few terse words to say about Bruce Willis as well.
And, in an unprecedented outbreak of high culture, we are going to see the Eroica symphony tonight. I'm still not sure how they're going to fit the entire BSO into Reading Concert Hall-- it's tiny.