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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Lift/Elevator surfing - a new craze?
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
I have been watching quite a few of the excellent videos on the channel in the video below(as I have started playing with my model elevator project again), but one of their videos worries me more then a little bit. In it, they describe the new craze(the video is one year old) of lift-surfing, especially with the younger generation. I can only hope that this is still NOT the case. This is mind-blowingly dangerous, and why ANYONE would want to do this, is - frankly - disturbing. Fully qualified lift mechanics have the know-how and expertise to know what they are doing, if they are doing a MAINTENACE RUN(which is slow cabin movement) riding on top of the cabin with all the shaft lights on, but as for riding the lift cabin in the shaft at full power etc......damn.....  Aparently, not only are they riding the cabin, but they are riding the COUNTER-WEIGHT!  THAT....is suicidal.  It's a REAL good way to get sliced in two about mid-shaft, and why ANYONE would want to do that or more to the point - encourage others to try it cos it's fun.... Well, lets just say I am losing my faith in the intelligence of the next generation if this is what they do for "Fun" these days. Crikey. LIFT SURFING Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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Mixtel90 Guru  Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
At least some of them won't have passed on their "stupid" gene to the next generation. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
The cabin(car for our elevator chums) is dangerous enough at full-power, but the f-ing COUNTER-WEIGHT?!?!??!!!   Death-wish much?! (rhetorical) "Counter-weight's a shiny big black bastard of a thing. You don't hear it, you don't see it till - splat - about four tons of steel hits you doing 50k an hour. Lift mechanic's nightmare. Some of the guys call it 'Whispering death'. There's about this much(2") between us an it. Should be passing it - just about - now. Hear it? Nah. You never do." - POLICE RESCUE, Episode 9, Series 3, 'Lift Sixteen' Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 7937 |
Sheesh... 2"? They have to be ******* bonkers! Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSVRmvOR7U Someone is trying to stop them PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Yes, I saw that clip also. It's a very good clip, and HOPEFULLY helps to illustrate that this is NOT a fun thing to do, it is potentially FATAL. I'm really quite seriously shocked that ANYONE not qualified would want to do this and call it fun, and the fact you have kids as young as 8 trying to make videos about this......very scary and incredibly stupid.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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