Thursday, April 18, 2013

Elevator lingo

As had been mentioned before, I like to pick up bits of lingo from random trades and such, so if i am ever called upon by circumstance to save lives by faking my way around, I dunno, train engineering, I will be prepared.  Today: elevators!  Was in one with a couple of elevator repair techs who said things like "I moved it a strong quarter inch - not quite 3/8ths..." and talked of little or no "rollback."  Rollback!  What a great elevator term that is.

The life I save will likely be yours!

2 comments:

Noel said...

Check out The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead.lots Great book on the seedy underground world Of elevator repair.

Nick said...

Ha! Was going to put the cover of that but went with Angel Heart option. I love John Henry Days, fwiw.